Portuguese utilities company REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais has hired Chilean firm Prieto to purchase a 42.5% stake in Chilean oil and natural gas transporter Electrogás.

REN bought the share from Enel Generación Chile, part of the Italian Enel group. The seller hired Careyfor the US$180 million deal.

The sale closed on 7 February. Electrogás runs a network of 165.6 kilometres of pipelines in Chile.

Counsel to REN – Redes Energéticas Nacionais

In-house counsel – Marta Almeida Alfonso and Diogo Macedo Graça.

Prieto

Partners Jaime Ríos Gómez-Lobo and Cristóbal Villarino, and associates Juan Andrés Ilharreborde, Camila Urzúa, María Victoria Guzmán, Felipe Grez, Camila Kutz, Francisco Lathrop and María Pía Eberhard.

Counsel to Enel Generación Chile

In-house counsel – Joaquin Valcarcel Martínez.

Carey

Partners Alfonso Silva and Salvador Valdés, and associates Cristián Figueroa, José Tomás Hurley, Miguel Saldivia, Matías Errázuriz and Vicente Yubini.

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