Practice areas
PPU provides specialized legal services in all Legal fields, providing our more than 3,000 clients with excellent comprehensive legal advice.
Asian Investments
Within the framework of the new demands for professional services posed by the growing economic interaction between the countries that make up the Pacific Alliance and Asia
Aviation Finance
Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría is the leading Spanish-language law firm in aircraft financing in Latin America.
Banking, Finance and Capital Markets
Advice on financial transactions and regulatory issues to both financial institutions, promoters and debtors in each case, local and foreign
Competition
Advises to public agencies, national, international and multinational companies from every market or industry.
Compliance
Systematic set of efforts made by the members of the company to ensure that their activities within the framework of the corporate business do not violate the applicable legislation
Corporate / M&A
Highly specialized in Corporate and M&A matters. Its lawyers have been involved in complex transactions and are renowned for providing creative and efficient legal advice
Criminal Law
PPU has a specialized practice in criminal litigation and consulting especially on corporates crimes. We have extensive experience in representing victims and in the development of defense strategies in the context of criminal litigation
Dispute Resolution
The Department of Litigation and Arbitration has a group of lawyers specialized in providing comprehensive advice for resolving disputes in civil and commercial matters
Energy, Mining and Natural Resources Law
Advice on legal matters for the development of projects in different areas such as mining, industrial, energy, corporate, infrastructure and real estate, among others
Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
PPU provides the necessary support to establish legal strategies that allow the strengthening of the environmental legal management of clients in a way that reduces the legal risks that may exist as a result of the activities carried out
Fishery and Aquaculture
Our fisheries and aquaculture area provides expert advice in the processing, acquisition and transfer of aquaculture concessions
Infrastructure and Projects
We advise our clients throughout all stages of their projects (as from the structuring of private initiatives and/or public bidding processes or, and until their projects reach O&M stages) including
Insolvency
We are recognized as experts representing clients in restructuring and bankruptcies, in an in and out-of court basis. Our team has a bast experience defending the interests of creditors as well as debtors
Insurance and Reinsurance
Renowned for our wealth of experience in the insurance world, we endeavor to provide innovative and specialized legal advice with respect to both the structuring of insurance and reinsurance products, in addition to the regulatory aspects of insurances, dispute resolution and litigation
Intellectual Property Law
The Intellectual Property practice is fully equipped to handle trade mark and patent filings, and is involved in a multitude of complex litigation matters
Labor
Our specialists in labor law, immigration and visas, and social security, advise on all matters relating to this practice area: usually involved in the negotiation, drafting and termination of employment contracts
Private Clients and Family
Wide-ranging law counsel to family holding companies and each one of their members, in as many subjects as they need and in a daily basis. The lawyers of this area are leaders in counseling family groups through planning, designing and implementing family protocols
Public law
Counsel to a wide range of clients both public and private sector, advising them and giving support in transactional and regulatory issues as in contentious and judicial matters related to Public Law and regulatory matters in general
Real Estate and Urban Planning Law
With a solid reputation in the real estate market (national and international), Real Estate Practice has been involved in the most important transactions in recent years (local and international market)
Tax and International Trade
Our Tax team understands how the businesses of our clients work to help them achieving their objectives, by means of the design of local and cross-border structures the principal focus of which is the solid and efficient management of taxes, through the following areas
TMT Technology Media and Telecommunications
Our TMT practice had a highlighted participation assisting in obtaining the required regulatory approval from the Undersecretary of Telecommunications
Venture Capital + TECH
Our Venture Capital + Tech specialized area provides comprehensive legal advice to start-ups, venture capital funds, companies, and investors, domestic and foreign, in the territories of Chile, Peru and Colombia, mainly on the following matters
Water Resources
Our Water Resources area provides comprehensive legal advice, covering all industries and projects that require this vital resource in all jurisdictions where the Firm has a presence, but with special emphasis on Chile and Peru. This has allowed us to advise both local and international companies, from the widest range of productive sectors, as well as the corresponding specialized governmental bodies.
