Mr Fernando Garrido > Barros & Errázuriz > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Barros & Errázuriz
AV. ISIDORA GOYENECHEA 2939, 10TH FLOOR
LAS CONDES
SANTIAGO
Chile
Fernando Garrido photo

Work Department

Position

  • Partner, Environment & Natural Resources, Barros & Errázuriz.

Career

  • Partner, Barros & Errázuriz (2010).
  • Foreign Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, United States (2009-2010).

Languages

Spanish and English

Memberships

  • Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

Education

  • Law School, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (magna cum laude), 2002.
  • M., Columbia University, New York, United States, 2009.

Lawyer Rankings

Chile > Energy and natural resources > Electricity and hydrocarbons

(Leading partners)

Fernando GarridoBarros & Errázuriz

Full-service law firm Barros & Errázuriz has significant experience in energy-related matters, including electricity sector issues. The  13-strong team covers the negotiation of power purchase agreements (PPAs), regulatory issues, energy M&A, joint ventures, and acquisition processes. The firm is also home to specialists in project financing and energy-related disputes. On the renewable energy side, the team advises domestic, regional and international market players, developers and financiers on hydroelectric, wind and solar energy projects, as well as transmission lines. In energy litigation, the group’s track record includes successful lawsuits over the interpretation and application of large PPAs. The department is led by José Tomás Errázuriz, who advises on major energy projects, as well as energy litigation (in addition to leading the firm’s dispute resolution offering). The team further showcases Fernando Garrido, who has extensive experience in natural resources and energy project development, energy M&A, project finance, litigation, and energy companies’ general corporate matters; and Cristóbal Pellegrini, who is ‘a practical lawyer who knows the electricity market in Chile in depth’. Pellegrini focuses predominantly on energy project developments, PPAs, project finance, M&A transactions (including due diligence), corporate law, and litigation. Associates Catalina Vergara and Raimundo Ruiz are also experienced in energy projects.

Chile > Energy and natural resources > Mining

Able to leverage the expertise of its M&A, financing and regulatory practices as necessary, the natural resources practice at full-service player Barros & Errázuriz fields specialists with experience in both domestic and cross-border mining matters. The five-member group handles option agreements, joint ventures and mining leases, along with streaming and royalties. It also assists with environmental matters, permitting issues and day-to-day mining issues. The group’s principal advisers are longstanding energy industry expert Fernando Garrido; and Felipe Allende, who assists mining companies with M&A transactions and project management issues. Particularly active advising on the processing of mining concessions, Martin Vial is the senior associate to note.

Chile > Environment

(Leading partners)

Fernando GarridoBarros & Errázuriz

Barros & Errázuriz‘s ‘environmental team is very good at both defining the general strategy and its implementation’. The full-service firm’s seven-member practice advises at every stage of clients’ business development and demonstrates expertise in projects’ planning, operation and closure phases, including due diligence, project finance, environmental assessments, permitting issues and community matters. The team also assists with local authority relations, compliance, and litigation before Chile’s environmental and ordinary courts (including the Supreme Court), along with enforcement proceedings and preventive advice. Additionally, the department has notable experience in urban planning, climate change issues, and waste management, recycling and aquaculture regulations. Recent highlights include assisting electricity transmission company Eletrans II with a sanctioning proceeding before the Environmental Superintendence. The team’s principal figures are Fernando Garrido, an expert in project finance, litigation, and natural resources and energy project development; and director Matias Montoya, a former Environmental Assessment Agency general counsel, who ‘has significant experience in environmental issues’. Montoya focuses on environmental assessments and environmental compliance, along with litigation and due diligence. In the firm’s associate pool, senior Mara Angelini has ‘a lot of experience in environmental issues and development permits’, while Cristóbal Gil is also a key member of the natural resources group.

Chile > Projects and infrastructure

Delivering ‘effective solutions’, Barros & Errázuriz’s sizeable practice has longstanding experience in high-stakes infrastructure and energy projects (and related transactions). The group is consistently mandated by developers, sponsors, constructors, operators, suppliers and financiers on tendering processes, as well as public and private works concessions, in relation to highways, prisons, airports, logistics centres, seaports and land terminals. It also assists with both renewable, conventional and transmission energy projects; mining companies’ large desalination projects; and high-value project financings. The practice is co-led by Nicolás Balmaceda, who focuses on infrastructure and financing work, as well as energy projects, public works concessions, engineering, construction, and arbitration; and infrastructure and energy project expert Francisco De la Barra, a regular adviser to sponsors, financial institutions, equity investors, export credit agencies, construction companies and development banks on project development and financing. The department further includes Fernando Garrido, who assists energy industry clients with the development, permitting, environmental and contractual aspects of generation and transmission projects; Cristóbal Pellegrini, a specialist in the project financing of large generation and transmission facilities; María Olga Rivera, who has notable port industry expertise; and mining project practitioner Felipe Allende. At senior associate level, Diego Ovalle and Nicole Ubal are the names to note.