Guerrero Olivos promotes five to partner

Chilean law firm Guerrero Olivos has promoted five associates to partner, effective from 1 January 2020.

Rocío García de la Pastora (pictured), is the new leading partner of Guerrero Olivos’ labour, migration and employment practice. She specialszes in labour law, labour litigation, collective bargaining, strategic labour plans and corporate labour matters. In the academic field, she is a professor of pre and post-graduate programs of labour law and labour litigation at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and a director of the Chilean Labour Law and Social Security Association since 2010, a member of the Industry Association of Labour Lawyers, and a fellow of Bologna University. 

Josefina Yávar started her career in Guerrero Olivos and is the new leading partner of the venture capital department and a member of the Santiago-based firm’s corporate/M&A and private equity groups. She is a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the master’s in law program on entrepreneurship and venture capital. She holds an LLM from Harvard University. 

Miguel Coddou, the new leading partner of the banking and finance practice, specialises 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, Royal Bank of Scotland Chile and AMB AMRO Chile. He was part of LATAM’s legal department for five years.

Benjamín Pérez has also developed his entire carreer with Guerrero Olivos and now 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 and has acted as speaker in the mining and water law sessions of Universidad de Chile. In addition, he has published several articles on environmental and water law issues in the mining industry.

Tomás Kubick started his career in Guerrero Olivos and is the new leading partner of the consumer protection practice and a member of the corporate/M&A, compliance and antitrust groups. He specialises in M&As, joint ventures and compliance programs. He has a master’s in law from New York University and is a professor of commercial law at Pontificia Universidad Católica Law School since 2015.