Garrigues Chile

With ‘extensive experience in both procedural techniques and strategy’, Garrigues Chile’s caseload covers a range of sectors, including large port and energy infrastructure construction arbitrations, as well as mining-related conflicts. Further to the June 2024 exit of partner Monica Van Der Schraft to become an independent arbitrator, former Jana & Gil Dispute Resolution partner Karen Werner now leads the firm’s disputes practice. Werner, who also regularly sits as arbitrator, has substantial expertise in arbitrations involving construction, shareholder, contractual and energy disputes. In the associate pool, principal José Joaquín Verdugo is ‘establishing himself, without a doubt, as one of the best lawyers of his generation’; while José Tomás Hirsch  is a contractual, civil and commercial law expert, and fellow-senior María Ignacia Arratia focuses on commercial, construction, electricity, cybersecurity, and technology-related matters. In early 2025, former counsel Cristóbal Sarralde also departed the firm, since when the firm has hired Rodrigo Riquelme Yañez (formerly at his own firm) who has deep experience of ad hoc and institutional arbitration in relation to infrastructure, construction, and public works concessions-related disputes.