Mr Juan Pablo Stitchkin > Carey > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile

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Chile > Projects and infrastructure

Carey‘s 47-strong projects practice -including seven partners- ‘offers good transactional support and is very knowledgeable about Chile’s engineering and construction industry‘. It also has significant experience in industry sectors such as mining, ports and airports, hospitals, hotels, real estate, and shipyards. In energy, the team fields experts in liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, wind, solar and hydro power, and gas-fired power plants. Recent work saw the team advise state-owned copper mining company, Codelco, with the structuring of the bidding documents and contracts under a build, own, operate and transfer structure for the development of a $1bn desalination plant. In other highlights, the team acted for Transelec, through its affiliate Transelec Concesiones, on the $375m project financing for the construction, operation and maintenance of four transmission lines and their related facilities, including substations. Co-head of the firm’s engineering and construction group, Oscar Aitken ‘has great knowledge of the legal issues commonly seen in the construction and mining industries in Chile‘; while energy group head Juan Francisco Mackenna ‘knows the market very well and provides the best solutions‘. Other key advisers are environment and natural resources practice head, Rafael Vergara, Juan Pablo Stitchkin (co-head, engineering and construction / real estate groups), Felipe Moro (project finance), José Miguel Bustamante (energy group co-head), and Alberto Cardemil (head of the water and agribusiness practice groups). Senior associates Carmenmaría Poblete  and Fernando Noriega are also noted. Other active clients include Brookfield, Antofagasta Minerals, Total and Sierra Gorda.

Chile > Real estate

Carey‘s ‘executive team gives great support and is very knowledgeable‘. It   is experienced in the development, financing, construction and sale of a range of real estate projects, including residential, commercial, industrial, and hospitality facilities, as well as mining and energy-related matters. Other areas of strength include casinos, agro-housing, conservation parks, shopping centres, office buildings and educational centres. The team is also recommended for the purchase, sale, lease and securitisation of portfolios, real estate asset management and construction law. Key clients include Sencorp, Inmobiliaria Nueva Cordova, Cinepolis, H&M and Mapfre; the team advised the latter on the sale of its existing corporate building, including the negotiation of lease agreements with the new owners. Oscar Aitken, Juan Pablo Stitchkin and counsel Eduardo Martin are highly rated; Tomás Varela and Javiera Avilés are the associates to note.