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OPA is the public offering of acquisition of stocks or values, and it takes place when an offerer wants to acquire actions or values of a society whose capital is admitted to negotiation in a stock market, so the offerer can participate actively in the society. A significant participation is one that equals or surpasses 25% of the capital of the affected society, and it can be hostile or friendly. Alessandri & Co. is a law firm that takes part as a financial intermediary in the acquisition of actions and values of societies and enterprises. For foreign investors, Alessandri & Co. offers advice in tributary tax exemptions to invest in Chile, legal statutes in foreign trade and requirements to buy actions in Chile.

Opa

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OPA was what I was asked for in the name registry office. Because I’m not crazy, I don’t live here, and I’ve been working for a little time now in this country, I really don’t know about the terms, used in a professional level. Besides, there’s a great amount of abbreviations, just like OPA, that are used in certain fields, and I bump on them more often, so ok, it’s known that English it’s thrifty and simpler in conjugation than Spanish, but not everybody, not even those with a native English, can remind every term and abbreviation such as OPA, and I’m always with the idea in my head that I might be right in the use of it or completely wrong.

I think OPA it has something to do with acquire actions, but I don’t know if it’s related with stock market actions or actions-actions, as in the verb, to act. For much of these matters I’ve had to get the help of an advice of businesses company, an external service, to guide me in the procedures. With OPA it’s been the same. My company has recently approve to give me this benefit, to be able to have the support and advice of an external company for a while, so I can accommodate myself to this new environment, because for anyone this kind of changes is easy, leaving my country, arriving to one with a different language, different culture, and economics, trying to develop my job and myself with a high standard of commitment, required by my company, due to the quantity of movements and transactions per-day.

For what I’ve understand, OPA is also related to buy actions, certainly it has something to do with buying actions in the stock market or the financial market, as you know it.

For this kind of transactions you have to manage a lot of knowledge in lots of matters; also your have to be a permanently studying the changes in the market and have a solid cultural base to work from, so you can understand the reasons of these changes, not only the high and lows of the stocks or the fuel, but the political situation of those countries that would affect our local economics. That’s one of the reasons why I was transferred to this market, to apply my knowledge of Chile in the Latin-American region about the fulfillments of goals and it influence in this stock market.

It’s a foreign trade service based on movements and flows of stocks in the stock-exchange market, and because of the market being a 24/7 non-stop machine, the necessity of improving the utilities or incomes has make that the biggest companies developing in the stock-exchange market to be those with the capability of being present in diverse stock-exchanges markets in the world. For example, with the time differences in occident and orient, there’s a 12 hour difference implied in the movement, that’s translated in the increase, and in worse case scenario, the lost, of positive flows to the companies due to the time difference. When one of the markets closes, the other it’s just opening. But this rule isn’t that simple and drastic to be followed, it’s flexible, and it’s preferred to make these exchanges in markets with less time differences. OPA was created with the idea of keeping it active the 24 hours a day, but it’s better to keep it active in groups of maximum 8 hours, three OPA sections and many sections of three OPA’s in different parts of the world.

The OPA headquarters is in Chile, but the idea was copied from an American model of stock-exchange production. To get familiar with the terms that influence in a certain OPA is necessary to have the largest amount possible of information, and specially to be able to work with it. The advice of a business technician may be helpful in markets based on trade and trade movement of technical activities, for example.

What we want to accomplish is represent OPA as a service of foreign trade. We work as a financial intermediary, and our concern is real investment tributary tax exemptions to invest in Chile.

We also try to keep a balance between the investments made by OPA to foreign companies who give us some services, so we can keep an effective control of endeavors and incomes in those companies and the ones depending on us. OPA guide us in our search to accomplish the transactions with a positive balance, considering commissions of the people involved in the transactions and exchange of states from a country to another, using our OPA offices.

 Since my arrival to this new market until now I’ve been able to comprehend the rules of it, quite different than those I’m used to, and thanks to the help I’ve been constantly receiving from the lawyers, I’ve been capable to accomplish my goals in a higher standard of quality as expected . with only a couple of phone calls I could change the plan of action of the day, and with the balance I got from OPA I could even predict what would possible happen in the Chilean market within a couple of minutes. Who would have thought, dealing stocks in the biggest stock-exchange market in Chile from a country with no concerning matters in it.

Certainly, the irrelevancy of the Chilean market in this country makes the neutrality of their opinion a righteous manifestation of changes to come after the daily closure of the market. The people, who get me to know this tool as a useful tool in my stock- exchanges and decisions in daily bases, tell me they’ve never seen someone so dependent and getting so much benefit out of OPA.  I think it’s great to use a tool in their maximum capability,  but still use the tools I used to use in my local market, but certainly with this new tool I might get better results if the locals have ever get to know OPA as a reliable tool.