Miss Josefina Court > FerradaNehme > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

The public law and government department at FerradaNehme leverages the firm’s expertise in administrative law, economic regulation and litigation for complex public law work, including environmental and urban planning issues. Recent mandates encompass urban transportation concessions, applications for administrative permits, defence-side lawsuits, and disputes over public works concessions. Highlights include representing Transelec in two illegality claims before the Court of Appeals of Santiago against sanctioning resolutions. The team is co-led by public and environmental law expert Josefina Court, a regulatory and environmental law specialist whose track record includes serving in the Legislative Office of the Presidency of Chile (under different administrations); and José Tomás Correa, who focuses on advising public agencies and private companies on administrative law issues and sanctioning procedures, as well as the regulated markets. Correa’s dispute resolution experience includes representing clients before Chile’s administrative agencies and the General Comptroller of the Republic, as well as before the country’s high courts of justice (including litigation before the Constitutional Court). At director level, Fernanda Skewes routinely acts for public sector clients (including public administration agencies, municipalities and state-owned companies), as well as private sector entities, particularly in relation to real estate, electricity, forestry, mining, casinos, transportation and public works.