Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos

With ‘impeccable legal judgement’, the 18-strong team at full-service firm Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos has longstanding experience in high-stakes arbitrations concerning international infrastructure disputes, energy supply contracts involving mining companies and shareholder conflicts. The team, which has ’complete and in-depth knowledge of arbitration matters’, is also mandated to act in insurance-related cases, as well as construction and engineering-related arbitrations. Recent highlights include acting for Alkhairat Shipping Co in a recognition proceeding before the Supreme Court, the matter concerning a London-rendered arbitral award. The practice is led by ‘excellent litigator’ Florencio Bernales, a specialist in national and international litigation and arbitration. The team further showcases Fernando Urrutia (’deserves special mention for his talent’), who acts in construction cases and insolvency-related proceedings; Raimundo Moreno, whose experience includes CAM Santiago and ICC proceedings; civil and criminal litigation practitioner Jorge Boldt; and consumer law and class action head José Ignacio Azar, a director whose practice encompasses domestic and international arbitration. From the firm’s senior associate ranks, Trinidad Torres is a recently-appointed CAM Santiago Young Arbitrator; Lorena Avendaño regularly acts for national and multinational companies in significant litigation and arbitration cases; and recently-promoted litigation and arbitration practitioner Francisca Larraín also acts as a CAM Santiago actuary.