Mr Matias Montoya > Barros & Errázuriz > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile
Barros & Errázuriz Offices
AV. ISIDORA GOYENECHEA 2939, 10TH FLOOR
LAS CONDES
SANTIAGO
Chile
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Mr Matias Montoya
Work Department
- Environment
Position
- Counsel, Barros & Errázuriz
Career
- Counsel, Barros & Errázuriz (2014).
- General Counsel, Environmental Assessment Service (2012).
- Regional Projects Coordinator, Environmental Assessment Service (2010).
- Legal Advisor to Executive Director, National Environmental Commission (2010).
- Attorney, National Environmental Commission of the Metropolitan Region (2008).
- Professor, Diploma in Environmental Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso, Valparaíso (2013).
- Professor, Diploma in Management of Environmental Compliance, Use and Application of Tools in the New Environmental Institutions, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago (2016 – present).
Languages
Spanish
English
Education
- Law School, Universidad del Desarrollo, Concepción, Chile, 2006.
- Master of Environmental Law, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2015.
Lawyer Rankings
Chile > Environment
(Next Generation Partners)With ‘expertise that is hard to find in other firms‘, Barros & Errázuriz‘s eight-strong environmental team advises on environmental assessments, permitting issues, relations with local authorities, and social conflicts and community matters. The practice also fields experts in preventive advice, compliance, enforcement proceedings and litigation before the environmental and ordinary courts (including the Supreme Court). Additionally, the team demonstrates experience in water rights law, proceedings before Chile’s health authorities, urban planning and climate change matters, along with waste management, recycling and aquaculture regulations. Fernando Garrido heads the firm’s water rights’ practice; while director Matias Montoya, a former Environmental Assessment Agency general counsel, is noted for ‘his knowledge of environmental issues‘ and advises on environmental assessments, environmental compliance, litigation, and due diligence. In the associate team, senior Mara Angelini and Cristóbal Gil both focus on environmental issues. Former senior Ignacio Urbina moved to Estudio Fermandois in September 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Consumer and advertising law
- Corporate and M&A
- Data privacy
- Real estate
- Tax
- TMT
Firm Rankings
- Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Energy and natural resources > Electricity and hydrocarbons
- Environment
- Projects and infrastructure
- Public law
- Venture capital
- Compliance
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Insurance