Roberto Guerrero Valenzuela

Roberto Guerrero is a member of the corporate and M&A area of Guerrero Olivos, and specializes in company law, mergers and acquisitions, financial and banking law, project financing and capital markets. He has been a lawyer since 1991.

Roberto Guerrero V. graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law. After a few years of private practice, he obtained a scholarship from the Inter-American Development Bank to study a master law degree at New York University. After graduation, he practiced for a year in the New York offices of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and then returned to Chile as an associate of Guerrero Olivos, becoming a partner in 2001.

He was also a part-time professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law, where he currently teaches corporate and business law. Between 2003 and 2010, he was the Vicedean and in 2010 he was elected as Dean for a period of 4 years.

Between 2008 and 2010, he was appointed as a member of the Board of the Council for Transparency (the Chilean Access for Information Authority). He is currently a member of the Board of the National Television Council (a constitutional autonomous entity that supervises the television industry and assigns open television concessions).

Roberto Guerrero has been recognized as a leading individual among Chilean lawyers in the fields of Banking & Finance and Corporate & M&A. His practice has focused in the areas of corporate law, business law, financial law and capital markets and, in such capacity, he has participated in the design, negotiation and implementation of complex and sophisticated transactions representing domestic and international clients, including American, European and Asian multinationals, some of which have been selected as “deals of the year” by prestigious international publications.

Roberto Guerrero is member of the board of several private companies and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.

He has published more than 20 articles in academic and professional publications, and books and book chapters in the field of business and corporate law.

Guerrero is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and of the International Bar Association (IBA). He is also an arbitrator and mediator of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Chamber of Commerce of Santiago and the arbitrator of the National Arbitration Center.