Enrique is a partner at Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz and a member of the firm\u2019s Financing and Infrastructure group. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions \u2014competitive sale processes, control acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate reorganisations\u2014 and on project and infrastructure finance. He also advises on capital markets, corporate and structured financing, asset finance, and restructuring and insolvency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He regularly advises local banks and borrowers on syndicated and other financing structures, and has acted for sellers, buyers and sponsors, and for domestic and international financial institutions and investment funds, on transactions governed by Chilean and New York law, frequently as local counsel to U.S. and European firms. His experience spans energy and renewables, electricity transmission, public and port infrastructure, desalination, telecommunications, healthcare, retail and real estate, as well as asset finance, including aircraft. He sits on the boards of a number of Chilean companies and family offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From 2025 until mid-2026 he practised out of the firm\u2019s New York office. He holds an LL.M. from UCLA and was a foreign associate at Shearman & Sterling LLP \u2014now A&O Shearman\u2014 in New York. He lectures on Commercial Law IV at Universidad del Desarrollo Law School.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":179,"template":"","meta":{"_bye_sort_name":"Barros Vial, Enrique","_bye_role":"Socio","_bye_email":"ebarros@bye.cl","_bye_phone":"+562 23788939","_bye_photo_card":176,"_bye_vcard":177,"_bye_areas":[19,62,56,86,7,92,40],"_bye_languages":["Espa\u00f1ol","Ingl\u00e9s"],"_bye_education":[{"title":"Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), United States","date":"2015"},{"title":"Diploma in Applied Corporate Taxation, Universidad Adolfo Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez, Chile","date":"2019"},{"title":"Law School, Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile, Santiago, Chile","date":"2009"}],"_bye_experience":[{"title":"Socio, Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz","date":"2020"},{"title":"Socio, oficina de Nueva York, Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz","date":"2025\u20132026"},{"title":"Abogado extranjero, Shearman & Sterling LLP (hoy A&O Shearman), Nueva York, Estados Unidos","date":"2015\u20132016"},{"title":"Asociado y asociado senior, Barros & Err\u00e1zuriz","date":"2008\u20132020"}],"_bye_academic":["Profesor de Derecho Comercial IV, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad del Desarrollo (desde 2026)"],"_bye_memberships":["Miembro del Colegio de Abogados de Chile"],"_bye_awards":["Band 4, Chambers Global 2026, Banking & Finance","Band 4, Chambers Latin America 2027, Chile, Banking & Finance","Next Generation Partners, Legal 500 2026, Chile, Banking and Finance","Destacado en Corporate and M&A, Legal 500, Chile","Highly Regarded, IFLR1000 2024, Chile, Banking"],"_bye_publications":[],"_bye_old_id":14822,"_bye_old_path":"\/abogado_socio\/barros-vial-enrique\/","_bye_translation":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/abogado_socio\/barros-vial-enrique\/?lang=en","footnotes":""},"grupo":[2],"etiqueta":[],"industria":[],"class_list":["post-178","persona","type-persona","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/persona"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/persona\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"grupo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/grupo?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"industria","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bye.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industria?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}