Providing ‘high-level legal services at efficient costs’, the electricity and hydrocarbons practice at Lawgic Abogados handles all stages of energy project development and demostrates experience across various energy-related sub-industries, from small generation projects to large-scale (hydroelectric, solar and wind utility) projects, alsong with energy transmission and storage, and green hydrogen project-development, among others. The practice is also a permanent advisor to Chile’s National Electricity Coordinator on various matters, including bidding processes. The ‘highly competent team’ is led by Agustín Walker (formerly an of counsel at Núñez Muñoz Abogados) who also co-heads the projects practice, with lkey support provided by practice director Rosario Martínez (‘exceptional dedication and skill’), who has some 15 years’ experience in energy infrastructure project deveopment – including land-lease agreements, easements, transmission / interconnection agreements and PPAs, along with due diligence, financing processes and corporate structures.
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Testimonials
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‘Great law firm. Excellent service and highly specialised in project development (especially mining and energy).'
‘Agustín Walker has collaborated with us on various projects and due diligence processes. He is an excellent lawyer and has a strong grasp of the contingencies encountered in due diligence.'
Key clients
- Statkraft
- Colbún
Work highlights
Advising Los Maintenes Solar on the development of a solar energy project near Santiago, handling the negotiation of the electric easements with the owners of properties which transmission line will cross; the firm is also leading the procedure of the definitive electrical concessions required for the transmission line and the electric substation.
Practice head
Agustín Walker