Marco Salgado
Partner | Corporate & M&A – Corporate Governance – Infrastructure – Life Sciences
Recognized by Chambers, Legal 500 and Leaders League for his practice in M&A and corporate governance.
- A lawyer with over 20 years of experience advising local and multinational companies on M&A, corporate law, and governance matters, with a focus on the consumer goods, infrastructure, energy, and life sciences industries. Before founding Salgado & O’Ryan, he was a partner in the Corporate and M&A practice at DLA Piper Chile, where he led complex, cross-border transactions, including reorganizations and infrastructure financings.
Marco combines a strategic and practical approach, integrating financial, regulatory, and corporate governance criteria. He is recognized for his technical clarity and commitment to excellence.
He advised Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. on its sale to Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), a transaction valued at over US$7.2 billion. This made CDPQ the second-largest wholesale energy provider, after Hydro-Québec.
He represented Innergex in its acquisition of 100% of Aela Generación S.A. and Aela Energía SpA (332 MW in the Sarco, Cuel, and Aurora wind farms) for US$685.6 million.
He advised American Tower Corporation on its purchase of Telxius Towers Latam Division and on its acquisition of towers from Entel in Chile and Peru, a transaction recognized as Latin America’s Transaction of the Year 2021 by TTR.
He assisted Bupa Chile S.A. in the sale of its stake in Corporación Médica de Arica S.A. to RedInterclínica S.A.
He advised American Tower on the purchase of more than 3200 antennas from Grupo Entel, an operation valued at USD 772 million.
- Chambers Latin America – Band 5 Corporate/M&A (2023–2026)
Chambers Global – Band 5 Corporate/M&A (2023–2025)
Legal 500 Latin America – Recommended (Corporate/M&A 2017–2025; Compliance 2018) - Leaders League – Corporate M&A (2022–2024)
Best Lawyers – Corporate and M&A Law (2020–2022), Governance and Compliance (2023–2025) - Latin Lawyer 250 – Highly Recommended Litigation (2021–2022)
- Professor of M&A and Corporate Governance at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and at INIDEM Business Law School (Panama).
- Spanish, English.
- LL.B. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2000)
- LL.M. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2006)
- Grotius Research Fellow, University of Michigan (2010)
- Master of Arts in Applied Philosophy, University of the Andes (2023)
A step forward in sustainability: first report on CMF General Rule No. 461/2021 – El Mercurio Legal, July 7, 2023
Key competencies of today’s in-house lawyer: A look at multinational legal teams – DLA Piper Chile Podcast
Global Legal Chronicle – Innergex Renewable Energy’s Acquisition of Aela Energía
Lex Latin – Innergex acquires Chile’s largest renewable energy producer
Lex Latin – American Tower acquires Telxius subsidiaries from Telefónica
Diario Financiero – Entel sells antennas in Chile and Peru for US$772 million