Mr Mario Arrué > Schultz Carrasco Benitez Abogados > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Schultz Carrasco Benitez Abogados is home to an ‘excellent work team with knowledge and experience in the environmental space’. The 14-member environmental and natural resources team has notable insight into how Chile’s public authorities operate, with several of its practitioners being former employees of the country’s key environmental bodies. The practice, which fields sector experts in renewable energy, mining, wastewater treatment, real estate and infrastructure, routinely defends its clients against  administrative special procedures before the the Environmental Courts, the Courts of Appeal and the Supreme Court. It additionally assists with the design and environmental assessment of projects, project-related permits, and compliance with Chile’s environmental legislation. Former Ministry of the Environment’s legal division head, Rodrigo Benítez, is an expert in the environmental assessment of mining, energy, infrastructure and agro-industry investment projects; and Edesio Carrasco is a former Environmental Assessment Agency regional director, who focuses predominantly on environmental permits, energy, land use and the development of industrial projects, as well as defence-side administrative matters. In the firm’s associate team, Esteban Cañas assists with administrative litigation and project-related environmental matters; and Mario Arrué advises on the environmental assessment of investment projects. In a boost to the group, environmental law specialists Graciela Venegas and Carlo Sepúlveda were made partners in August 2023.