Ms Lorena Avendaño > Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

Full-service legal practice Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos fields a five-member team that routinely works alongside the firm’s labour, environmental, data privacy, antitrust, IP and tax groups on compliance matters. The team, which ‘stands out for its high level of commitment to clients’ requirements’, is notably active in relation to the mining, construction, healthcare, life sciences, technology, transport, and food and beverage sectors. Heading the practice, Jorge Boldt assists with the design and implementation of compliance models, as well as internal company investigations. In the associate team, Lorena Avendaño‘s experience covers compliance work in addition to litigation, arbitration and white-collar issues; and Simona Marquet also advises on compliance.

With ‘impeccable legal judgement’, the 18-strong team at full-service firm Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos has longstanding experience in high-stakes arbitrations concerning international infrastructure disputes, energy supply contracts involving mining companies and shareholder conflicts. The team, which has ‘complete and in-depth knowledge of arbitration matters’, is also mandated to act in insurance-related cases, as well as construction and engineering-related arbitrations. Recent highlights include acting for Alkhairat Shipping Co in a recognition proceeding before the Supreme Court, the matter concerning a London-rendered arbitral award. The practice is led by ‘excellent litigator’ Florencio Bernales, a specialist in national and international litigation and arbitration. The team further showcases Fernando Urrutia (‘deserves special mention for his talent’), who acts in construction cases and insolvency-related proceedings; Raimundo Moreno, whose experience includes CAM Santiago and ICC proceedings; civil and criminal litigation practitioner Jorge Boldt; and consumer law and class action head José Ignacio Azar, a director whose practice encompasses domestic and international arbitration. From the firm’s senior associate ranks, Trinidad Torres is a recently-appointed CAM Santiago Young Arbitrator; Lorena Avendaño regularly acts for national and multinational companies in significant litigation and arbitration cases; and recently-promoted litigation and arbitration practitioner Francisca Larraín also acts as a CAM Santiago actuary.

The ’very energetic team’ at full-service law firm Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos has ‘great experience in litigation’. The 18-strong litigation and arbitration department, which represents both domestic and international clients in high-stakes litigation that is frequently conducted against the Chilean State, is experienced in disputes over environmental, regulatory, energy, mining, securities, tax, construction, and insurance issues. The group is also regularly mandated to act in suits concerning damages, torts, competition law, and consumer protection. The firm additionally maintains robust white-collar and data protection practices. Among the firm’s notable disputes practitioners, national and international litigation and arbitration specialist Florencio Bernales acts in disputes involving construction, insurance, shareholder agreements and takeover operations, as well as damages, mining, environment, electricity and antitrust-related actions; Fernando Urrutia primarily handles construction cases and related insolvency proceedings; Raimundo Moreno‘s recent experience includes environmental cases; and Jorge Boldt is a civil and criminal litigation expert. The practice further comprises director José Ignacio Azar, who leads the firm’s consumer law and class action offering. In the firm’s senior associate ranks, Trinidad Torres‘ experience includes securities-related litigation; Lorena Avendaño assists with civil litigation and criminal defence work; and María Francisca Larraín (promoted in December 2023) is an experienced litigation, arbitration and ADR practitioner.

Cariola Díez Pérez-Cotapos‘ five-member white-collar crime and investigations practice focuses on criminal litigation, investigations and compliance assessments, the latter covering risk control and compliance programmes. The team’s experience extends to cases involving fraud, unlawful administration, IP issues, corruption, and environmental and tax crimes; while in addition to the practice’s work on behalf of individual executives, it also handles matters related to corporate criminal liability. The department is led by Jorge Boldt, a specialist in both company and economic crimes. In the firm’s associate team, senior Lorena Avendaño routinely assists with defence-side criminal matters; Simona Marquet‘s experience includes internal investigations into fraud and corruption; and Cristóbal Lema and Camila Arenas also both advise on white-collar crime.