López Escobar del Río

Boutique law firm López Escobar del Río fields ‘an exceptional team that has extensive knowledge of criminal matters’. Taking on a limited number of cases each year, the eight-strong practice specialises in highly-complex litigation, and is routinely sought out for its expertise in criminal, civil and administrative law-related litigation. The firm’s broad sector expertise ranges from finance, retail, electricity, ports and mining, to banking, telecoms and infrastructure (both in the private and the public sector); recent highlights include defending Chilean mining company Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi (which focuses on the extraction and production of copper and molybdenum concentrate), against a criminal investigation into alleged customs offences. The department’s key practitioners are Julián López Masle, a professor of criminal procedure and trial litigation at the University of Chile Law School since 1998, who has longstanding experience in criminal, civil and commercial litigation; José Ignacio Escobar Opazo, whose ’knowledge of criminal and procedural law is exceptional, as is the responsibility with which he approaches each defence’; and 2024-promoted partner Ignacio Ananías Zaror, a criminal litigation specialist who ‘possesses superb legal judgement and handles cases excellently’.