Team size:   Eleven

How do you approach managing legal aspects during periods of instability or crisis to ensure the organisation’s resilience?   

Understanding the strategy of the company, our internal investment criteria and ensuring a strong development pipeline. We do not work as separate business units, we aim to achieve our goals by working together and understanding the market to properly assess the best decision that we can to ensure grenergy´s portfolio and stakeholders’ benefits. This is the result of Grenergy´s way of getting things done, professionally and efficiently. It is our “On and On” culture, always prepared for the future ahead, fully aligned with our CEO and C-Level management team to navigate regulatory affairs.

Have you had any experiences during your career as a lawyer that stand out as particularly unique or interesting?  

Yes, forming part of Grenergy, a leading global PV & Storage independent power producer (IPP), has been a unique experience. Helping to secure nearly 2.3GW & 3.6GWh across America (in operation and under construction) and to give legal advice to navigate risks for a pipeline of 16.6GW & 26.9GWh has strongly impact my career and enhanced my awareness of legal contingencies.

How does your team contribute to the overall business strategy of the company? Can you share an example of a recent legal-led initiative that had a significant impact?   

We are a team of 12 legal counsel across Latam with different technical knowledges and skills (mainly generation – transmission and distribution regulation – M&A – Project Finance and Project development practice) and Chile demands the majority of our daily work due to our pipeline and investment. Quillagua project is a result of years of legal practice of Grenergy Latam and Spain teams. Therefore, we have experienced legal counsels technically prepared to support a highly regulated industry in which specific knowledges in each energy latam industry is required. We are committed to form General Counsels, educating our lawyers to be prepared to resolve any contingency or corporate requirement, regardless of the industry they are involved working in the future. Our commitment is to form outstanding legal counsels.

Looking forward, what trends do you foresee in the legal landscape over the next five to ten years that companies should prepare for?  

As a legal counsel you need to constantly evolve and adapt to industry changes and market demands, pushing your teams to constantly think out of the box. For us is all about Pv + storage capacity in the years to come and staying focus on achieving all Oasis de Atacama milestones.