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Corporate Law

Mergers and Acquisitions

Our Firm has extensive experience in advising both local and foreign clients on every aspect of corporate acquisitions, mergers, consolidations, split-ups, spin-offs, and corporate reorganizations. In addition to the due diligence process, we provide legal counseling in all aspects of the transaction, including its legal, tax and financial planning, as well as analysis and advice on shareholders rights (whether majority or minority), capital markets rules, and labor and antitrust issues, among others.

Among the most recent transactions we've given advise are:

Year	Project	Acquirer	Objective	Amount involved
1993	Merger	Generali Perú Compañía de y Reaseguros	Compañía de Seguros Atlas y La Colmena	US$ 30 million
1994	Acquisition of Compañía Minera Tintaya S.A.	Magma Copper Company (Today, BHP Billiton client)	Compañía Minera Tintaya S.A.	US$ 270 million
1997	Acquisition of the Metallurgical Complex of La Oroya	Doe Run Peru S.R.L. (Client)	Centromin Peru S.A.	US$ 250 million
1997	Acquisition of EXTEBANDES (Client)	Standard Chartered Bank	EXTEBANDES	US$ 270 million
1998	Acquisition of Empresa Minera Cobriza S.A.	Doe Run Peru S.R.L. (Client)	Centromin Peru S.A.	US$ 7.5 million
1998	Escisión de Mapfre Compañía de Seguros (Cliente)	Mapfre Peru Vida (Client)		US$ 7.5 million
1999/2000	Split-Up of Wiese Aetna Compañía de Seguros (Client)	Wiese Aetna Seguros de Vida (Client)		N/A
2001	Merger	Mapfre Perú Vida (Client)	La Real Compañía de Seguros	N/A
2001	Portfolio Acquisition	Mapfre Perú Vida (Client)	Finisterre Mutual Funds	N/A
2001	Acquisition	CESCE Compañía Española de Seguros de Crédito a la Exportación S.A.(Client)	SECREX Compañía de Seguros de Crédito y Garantías	US$ 3.5 million
2002	Acquisition	Bavaria S.A.(Client)	Unión de Cervecerías Peruanas Backus y Johnston S.A.A.	US$ 1,000 million
2002	Sale of Insurance Portofolio of Wiese Aetna Compañía de Seguros	Rimac Internacional Compañía de Seguros	Wiese Aetna (our client was ING Insurance: hareholder)	US$ 7.5 million

Our partner Mr. Augusto Ferrero along with David Williams, partner at Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett Firm, based in New York, are the authors of a legal analysis published in Latin Finance entitled “Mergers and Acquisitions”.