Raft of Promotions at Guerrero Olivos

Publicado el 3 ene 2020

Guerrero Olivos, the Santiago-based law firm has appointed Rocío García de la Pastora, Josefina Yávar, Miguel Coddou, Tomás Kubick and Benjamín Pérez as a partner level position, effective January 1st. This appointment is part of the firm’s strategy to continue growing and strengthening, especially in mining, labor, corporate, venture capital, consumer protection and banking areas.

Rocío García de la Pastora, lead partner of Guerrero Olivos’ labor, migration and employment practices, specializes in labor law, complex labor litigation, collective bargaining, strategic labor plans and corporate labor matters. In addition, she has been director of the Chilean labor law and social security association since 2010.

Josefina Yávar is the leading partner in the venture capital department and member of the corporate/M&A and private equity groups. A graduate of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, she has an LLM from Harvard University.

Miguel Coddou, lead partner of the banking and finance practice, specializes in all kinds of financings, banking and finance regulation and capital markets. Before joining Guerrero Olivos, he worked as CLO in several international banks including Rabobank Chile, The Royal Bank of Scotland Chile (RBS) and AMB AMRO Chile.

Benjamín Pérez co-heads the water law practice and is a member of the mining and environmental groups. Since 2018 he has been president of the mining committee of the Chile-Australia Chamber of Commerce.

Tomás Kubick, the leading partner of the consumer protection practice and member of the corporate/M&A, compliance and antitrust groups, specializes in M&A, joint ventures and in compliance programs. He has a master’s degree from New York University.