PRACTICE
AREAS
Environment
- Environmental Impact Assessment System (Sistema de Evaluación de Impacto Ambiental, SEIA)
- Land use planning
- Environmental and sectoral permits
- Environmental litigation
- Administrative sanctioning proceedings
- Project development strategies
- Indigenous legislation
- Community matters
- Due diligence
- Audits, environmental compliance and regulatory risks
Water and Desalination
- Legal strategies for the development of all types of investment projects (energy, desalination, agriculture, mining, sanitary, industrial, and other projects)
- Administrative procedures (major hydraulic works; watercourse modifications; granting and modifications of water rights; among others)
- Regularization of water rights
- Administrative disciplinary proceedings
- Litigation
- User organizations (Water Communities, Canal Owners’ Associations, Supervisory Boards)
- Due diligence
- Agreements regarding water for various uses
- Monitoring obligations regarding groundwater and surface water
- Desalination. Regulatory, environmental and territorial aspects
Mining
- Due diligence
- Establishment and oversight of mining property
- Territorial protection and consolidation strategies
- Litigation
- Mining-related contracts, such as pledges, options, mortgage agreements and other sureties, easements, royalties, financing, streaming, among others
Energy
- Administrative permits for the development of generation and transmission projects
- Electricity concessions
- Green hydrogen and its derivatives. Regulatory, environmental and territorial aspects.
- Due diligence, M&A and financing
- Supply, operation, transmission and interconnection contracts.
- Concessions over use for valuable consideration (Concesiones de uso oneroso)
- Construction, interconnection and operation of generation projects
- Engineering, EPC, EPCM and O&M contracts
- Public and private bidding processes for energy supply
- Public bidding processes for expansion plans of the transmission system
Project Development
- Green Hydrogen and Desalination. Regulatory, environmental and territorial aspects.
- Public and private bidding processes
- Preventive legal strategies for compliance with financing requirements
- Due Diligence
- Audits and identification of regulatory risks
- Concessions on public and state property
- Rights of way, authorizations, leases, easements, sales, purchases, among other matters.
- Joint operation agreements, cooperation agreements, service contracts, supply contracts and other complex agreements
Litigation and sanctioning proceedings
- Litigation in environmental, water, energy and mining matters before ordinary and special courts
- Administrative disciplinary proceedings before the Superintendence of the Environment (Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente), the General Water Agency (Dirección General de Aguas) and other sector-specific authorities
Agro-industry
- Due diligence and title search of rural land and water rights
- Contracts for the purchase and sale of rural land, leases, easements, among others
- Contracts regarding water for different uses
- Administrative procedures (creation and transfer of water rights; intake permits; channel modifications; among others)
- Water users’ organizations (Water Watchdog Boards, Canal Owners’ Associations and Water Communities)
- Monitoring obligations regarding the drawing of groundwater and surface water
- Mergers and acquisitions and financing of agricultural projects
- Specialized tax advice on agricultural matters, both for exporters and producers
Corporate
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Joint venture agreements, incorporation of companies, shareholders’ agreements, among others.
- Senior, syndicated, subordinated, secured and unsecured credit facilities and project finance agreements
- Supply chain procurement
- Engineering, EPC, EPCM and O&M contracts
- Contracts with related companies
- Corporate governance, regulatory aspects, compliance with internal and related policies and procedures
- Due diligence