Edder Cifuentes
M.L.B.

Corporate LawMergers & Acquisitions

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Edder Cifuentes<br/>M.L.B.

Experience

Edder Cifuentes specialises in M&A, corporate and commercial law, renewable energies and infrastructure law as well as capital markets and venture capital law. He regularly advises clients on cross-border projects, in particular between Germany, Austria and Switzerland (DACH region) and Chile and Latin America.

Edder Cifuentes is ranked by Chambers Global as the only foreign expert in Germany for Corporate/M&A in Chile.

Education

Edder Cifuentes has worked at Oppenhoff since 2014. He studied law at the Universidad de Chile (Santiago, Chile) and at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Cifuentes is Chilean lawyer and member of the Chilean Bar Association as well as the Cologne Bar Association (Germany). Previously, he worked as senior associate at the Chilean law firm Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana focusing on advisory and transactional corporate law issues for a variety of local and international corporate clients. Prior thereto he worked at the legal desk of Coca-Cola in Santiago, Chile. Edder Cifuentes holds a Master of Law and Business (M.L.B) degree from Bucerius Law School/WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management (Hamburg and Vallendar, Germany). He is Ph.D. student at Bucerius Law School.

 

Edder Cifuentes
M.L.B.

PartnerAbogado (Chile)

Languages
German, English, Spanish

Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 461
M +49 162 243 0081

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Articles and Essays

Lationoamérica desde europa
The Latin American Lawyer (Issue 17) dated January/February 2021

Alemania reforma las reglas para la inversión extranjera no europea [Germany reforms the provisions for foreign investments outside of Europe]
El Mercurio Legal dated 16 February 2018 (in collaboration with Johannes Janning)

Nuevo Reglamento de la Unión Europea en Materias de Sucesión [New regulation on matters of succession of the European Union]
abogados.com.ar dated 31.03.2015 (in collaboration with Alf Baars and Dr. Luise Hauschild)

Algunos comentarios a propósito del nuevo Reglamento de Sociedades Anónimas [Some comments regarding the new regulation on corporations]
Revista Chilena de Derecho Comercial (Chilean Journal of Commercial Law) dated 2014, Year III N. 3, Faculty of Law, University of Chile, p. 189

Restructuring & Insolvency: Chile
Getting the Deal Through – Restructuring & Insolvency dated 2011, 2012 & 2013, Law Business Research, p. 69 (in collaboration with Octavio Bofill et. al.)

Lecture: "Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen im Chilegeschäft" [Legal framework for doing business in Chile], Program Information Event Chile Decentralized Energy Supply with Renewable Energies, Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy Export Initiative Energy, RENAC Renewables Academy, Berlin (12 December 2018)

Participation in a panel discussion with company representatives, business forum, automation in the machine and mining sector in Chile, Frankfurt a.M. (09 May 2018)

Participation in a panel discussion with company representatives, Solar transactions and due diligence, Solar Asset Management Latin America 2017, Santiago, Chile (18 October 2017)

Lecture: “Chile: Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für den Markteintritt” [Chile: legal framework conditions for entering the market], Information event on automation technology and CHP in the industrial sector in Chile, Berlin (14 June 2017)

Lecture on current developments in the field of contract law in Germany and Chile, “Charla 90 minutos: Contratos Chile – Alemania, Intercambios comerciales y de negocios entre ambos países.”, German-Chilean Chamber of Industry and Commerce (CAMCHAL), Santiago, Chile, (12/2016)

Keynote speech: “Erneuerbaren Energien in Chile” [Renewable energies in Chile], International Experts Day “NRW.Europa.Förderwerkstatt und Santander Bank – Auslandsfinanzierung für Lateinamerika und Europa” [NRW.Europe.Workshop and Santander Bank – Foreign financing for Latin America and Europe], Mönchengladbach (21 September 2016)

Lecture: “Aktuelle Lage des Erneuerbare-Energien-Marktes in Chile” [Current state of the renewable energies market in Chile], Symposium German Desk (Cámara de Industria y Comercio Argentino-Alemana - German-Argentinian Chamber of Industry and Commerce), Berlin (13 May 2016)

Lecture: „Regulation of conflict of interest of financial intermediaries. A comparative view vis-à-vis the Chilean self-regulatory approach“, Seminar on European and Chilean Capital Market Law, between Bucerius Law School and the Law Faculty of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile (19 November 2015)

Energy and InfrastructureCorporate Law / Mergers & Acquisitions / Banking and Capital Markets Law, Financing29.01.2024 News

Oppenhoff advises AustriaEnergy on extension of Joint Venture for large-scale Power-to-X “HNH Energy” for green hydrogen and green ammonia in Chile

Oppenhoff has advised the AustriaEnergy Group on the expansion and structuring in two phases of the Joint Venture for HNH Energy in Chile, one of the world's largest Power-to-X projects for the production of green hydrogen and green ammonia with a potential aggregate capacity of 5GW of wind.

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Energy and InfrastructureBanking and Capital Markets Law, Financing / Mergers & Acquisitions / Corporate Law20.06.2023 News

Oppenhoff advises AustriaEnergy International on Green Bond

Oppenhoff has advised the AustriaEnergy Group together with Simmons & Simmons on the creation and placement of a Green Bond with a target volume of €25 million.

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Energy and InfrastructureCorporate Law / Mergers & Acquisitions17.01.2022 News

Oppenhoff advises AustriaEnergy on large-scale green hydrogen and green ammonia Power-to-X HNH Project in Chile with CIP

Oppenhoff has advised the AustriaEnergy Group on the complex structuring of a cutting edge Power-to-X joint venture with its partner Ökowind and the Danish fund management company Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP). The joint venture’s purpose is the joint ownership and joint development of the HNH Project in the region of Magallanes in the south of Chile.

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