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Rodrigo de Alencar Baraona

Partner

Rodrigo co-heads the firm’s M&A practice and has extensive experience in complex transactions, with a primarily international focus and in a variety of areas such as manufacturing, mining, services, consumer goods, construction, sports, etc.

He also focuses his practice on agreements and conflicts between shareholders, both in public and private companies, and advises boards of directors on corporate governance matters.

This, combined with his experience as a professor of civil law for more than 20 years, has led him to advise minority shareholders, controlling shareholders, directors, and third parties in arbitration and litigation related to the Corporations and Securities Law.

Rodrigo advises domestic and foreign companies, with a special focus on private equity and markets such as Brazil, Asia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Rodrigo heads BSVV’s Brazilian Desk.

PRACTICE AREAS

  • Mergers and Acquisitions.
  • Private Equity.
  • Corporate Governance.
  • Litigation and Arbitration.
  • Succession, Family Based Companies & Transition.

EDUCATION

  • Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1997.
  • Master of Law (LL.M.), The University of Chicago, 2001.
  • Diploma in Negotiation, Harvard University, 2007.

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Partner, Barros Silva Varela & Vigil, 2022.
  • Lawyer Member at Corte de Apelaciones de Santiago, 2019 – 2020.
  • Partner, Urenda Rencoret Orrego y Dörr, 2015- 2021.
  • Partner, Prieto y Cía., 2008 – 2011.
  • Foreign Associate, Mayer Brown, Chicago, 2001 – 2002.

ADMISSIONS

  • Chile, 1997.

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish, Portuguese and English.

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Vice-President of the Chilean-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
  • Professor of Civil Law at Universidad de los Andes, since 2003.
  • Professor of Corporate Governance at the Master of Laws at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, since 2015.
  • Chilean Bar Association.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  • Chambers and Partners, Corporate and M&A– Band 7.
  • Legal 500, Corporate and M&A
  • Leaders League, Corporate/M&A. | Dispute Resolution: Civil and Commercial Litigation.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Nilahue: tierra fecunda, 2022.
  • Civis Brasiliae, Fundação Guimarães Rosa, 2025.
rdealencar@bsvv.cl