Lembeye’s public law department advises clients across industries such as energy, mining, telecommunications, media, transportation and healthcare. The department work on key cross-sectoral regulations -from environmental law, water rights, and consumer protection, to public procurement and urban planning- providing strategic legal guidance on securing permits, authorisations and concessions; it also often represents clients in administrative proceedings. Additionally, the team frequently advises on government tenders, compliance frameworks and legislative developments. With 15 years' government administration experience, practice head Guillermo de la Jara brings extensive experience advising multinational corporations, local businesses and government entities across highly regulated sectors. Key support is provided by corporate and transactional practice director María Paz Aguirre who brings extensive (commercial and civil) contractual know-how.
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Testimonials
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- 'Lembeye has an outstanding staff, each of whom specialises in a specific area, providing a comprehensive result.'
- 'The Lembeye team stands out for its collaborative, comprehensive work and strategic vision. In all our cases, they have conducted analyses with a high level of technical knowledge, delivering solid solutions with excellent results.'
- 'Communication is always fluid and clear. I have interacted on these matters with Francisco Palma, Jorge Lembeye, Daniel Praetorius, and Guillermo de la Jara. They are always very approachable and transparent. They demonstrate solid knowledge in all matters and are always timely.I believe the service they provide is exceptional, with great dedication, with more than one lawyer available to follow up on all cases and with great expertise. They are approachable and inspire great confidence in their management. They respond promptly to every question or problem. They make us feel like we are the most important client, always attentive, with their cases up to date. They handle each case or problem presented to us with complete rigour and discipline, which generates complete trust in them, and they resolve everything in our favour.'
- 'I have worked with Rony Zimerman and Guillermo de la Jara; both of exceptional quality.'
- 'Principal Rony Zimerman is a tremendous help in running our firm, advising on all sorts of legal issues encountered in running our business in Chile. He is always willing to provide direction, in addition to legal orientations.'
- 'Guillermo de la Jara is a very dedicated lawyer with plenty of experience in public law.'
Key clients
- Sidasa Engineering
- Itelecom
- Grupo Brajovic
- Biwo Renovables
- Unired
- Matrix Renewables Chile / TPG Global
- H2O Innovation
- Inspectorate Chile
- Fondo de Infraestructura
- Compañía Minera Chipana
- Instituto Hebreo
- Inversiones El Golf
Work highlights
Advising solar and wind energy project constructor, Biwo on the development of various electricity generation projects.
Advised Matrix on several regulatory matters including the preparation of a memorandum regarding the legal regulation involved in the protection of cultural heritage and environmental responsibility for energy projects, and the preparation and drafting of letters responding to the Compañía General de Electricidad.
Advising Unired (a company dedicated to the centralized collection of payments by the public to different businesses), on the reception of payments with credit or debit cards, in the face of divergences (both regulatory and concerning competition issues) , with other players in the payment card market.
Practice head
Guillermo de la Jara