Clyde & Co

Key areas of work for Clyde & Co's Santiago office range from coverage analysis when deciding whether a claim should be indemnified, to supervision of loss adjustment procedures and ensuring compliance with Chile’s regulations; and recent growth areas for the practice include aviation and finance-related insurance mandates. ‘Providing excellent legal advice’, the team also assists with reinsurance; regulatory work before the Financial Market Commission; defence-side litigation; and recovery of paid indemnities from third parties that are liable for losses. The group is headed up by the current president of the Latin American Centre for Mediation and Arbitration of Insurance and Reinsurance, Felipe Hoetz, who is ’one of the best insurance lawyers in the country’, and has approximately 25 years’ experience in insurance, reinsurance and loss adjusting. Notably focused on high-value losses, Hoetz was also elected president of the reinsurance working group of the Ibero-Latin American Committee of the International Insurance Law Association (CILA-AIDA) in early 2024. Providing key support, disputes specialist Jorge Meneses maintains a robust insurance litigation practice alongside his leadership of the firm’s public, administrative and regulatory law offering in Santiago.