Dentons

Partner

Enrique Benítez is a partner co-leading the Energy group in Dentons' Santiago office and the global Energy group for Latin American and the Caribbean.

He has experience advising Chilean and foreign companies developing energy, oil & gas, mining, and agricultural projects, on regulatory, environmental, permitting, community relations, and corporate matters.

Enrique focuses his practice on regulatory and contractual matters associated with energy projects, both electric and gas. His work considers the structuring and planning process, obtaining the necessary permits for their construction and commissioning, interconnection to transmission lines and transportation facilities, negotiation of PPAs and transportation and transmission contracts, financing, operation, and representation before the electricity and gas authorities. In addition, he has actively participated in NCRE and Green Hydrogen projects.

He advised cross-border gas pipelines projects built between Chile and Argentina, and recently the project that interconnected the electrical systems in Chile with a total investment of US$800 million. He has also advised clients interested in electromobility projects.

On environmental and water issues, he has advised various energy, mining, and agricultural companies on matters related to environmental permits, evaluation processes, and water supply and management systems (contact and non-contact).

Enrique has also advised in Defense matters, like the purchase of 10 F-16 Block 50 aircraft by the Chilean Air Force, acquired from the Lockheed Martin company, including some of the contracts associated with equipment for those planes. He worked with a foreign government in the negotiations for selling frigates to the Chilean Navy, a negotiation in which industrial compensations related to an offset agreement were decisive

Harvard University, 1999, PIL Negotiation.

Universidad Diego Portales, 1996, JD