Practice Area: Environmental and sectorial permits, regulated markets, environmental and regulatory compliance.
Lawyer since 2012. Extensive experience in managing public and private sector projects. Specialist in regulated markets, permits, and natural resources. Primarily advises the development of mining, aquaculture, sanitation, energy (transmission and generation), and forestry projects from a strategic standpoint, focusing on environmental and regulatory compliance, obtaining authorizations, and providing administrative and judicial defense. Previously, he was responsible for the Environmental Department of the State Defense Council, coordinating and managing judicial actions in administrative, environmental damage, and criminal cases before specialized and ordinary courts.
Education
- Master’s in Public Law / University of Chile / 2013
- Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences / Diego Portales University / 2005
Experience
- Aylwin Estudio / Associate Attorney / Since 2023
- State Defense Council / Head of the Environmental Unit / 2019 – 2023
- Aylwin Mendoza Luksic & Valencia / Associate Attorney / 2016 – 2019
- Cubillos Evans Abogados / Associate Attorney / 2015 – 2016
- EELAW / Associate Attorney / 2012 – 2015
Languages
- Spanish
- English
Publications
- 2024 / Coordinator and Professor of the “Course on Criminal Liability for Environmental Offenses (Law No. 21.595)” / Department of Criminal Sciences, University of Chile.
- 2023 / Professor of the course “Policies, Regulatory Framework, and Socio-Environmental Strategies,” as part of the Honor Diploma “Environment: Crisis and Sustainable Transition” / Department of General Studies, Diego Portales University.
- 2023 / Co-author with Hervé Espejo, Dominique, Arriagada Varela, Sebastián, of the chapter: “The Necessary Impulse from the Supreme Court to Address the Core Environmental Issue Regarding ‘Parcelas de Agrado’. The Case ‘Punta Puertecillo’,” Judicial Observatory.
- 2023 / Co-author with Israel López, Ruth, of the chapter: “State’s Role in Environmental Jurisdiction,” Tirant lo Blanch Publishing.
- 2023 / Author of the chapter: “Environmental Responsibility in the Constitutional Debate. Implications and Regulatory Challenges,” Diego Portales University Press.
- 2021 / Author of the chapter “Predictability of Damage to the Water Component as a Factor in Determining Environmental Damage Liability” / Der Editions. ISBN: 978956405011.