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Carey
Main Contacts

Pablo Iacobelli
Partner
Jaime Carey
Managing PartnerOffices
Santiago, Chile
Overview
Carey is Chile's largest full-service law firm. Our various corporate, litigation and regulatory groups include highly-specialized attorneys and practice areas covering all areas of law. Our clients include some of the world's largest multinationals, international organizations, and some of the most important local companies and institutions. We are perceived as one of the best managed law firms in the country and we are amongst the very top in Latin America.
We are an effective bridge between legal systems. Most of our partners and senior associates have worked in North America, Asia, and Europe, as foreign or regular associates with leading international law firms, or as in-house counsel for major corporations or international institutions.
Carey is the law firm in Chile with the most practice areas ranked as Band 1 by Chambers Latin America: Banking and Finance; Corporate, M&A; Labor; Energy and Natural Resources; Insurance; Intellectual Property; Projects; Tax and Telecommunications.
Year this Office was Established: 1905
Lawyers Worldwide: 270
Languages: Catalan, Chinese, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Notable
Areas of Practice
Representative Clients
Professionals
Partners

Guillermo Acuña
Partner
Oscar Aitken
Partner
Manuel Alcalde
Partner
Francisco Arce
Partner
José Miguel Bustamante
Partner
Alberto Cardemil
Partner
Jorge Carey
Chairman
Jaime Carey
Managing Partner
Francisco Carey
Partner
Guillermo Carey
Partner
Jaime Carey, Jr.
Partner
Francisca Corti
Partner
Alejandra Daroch
Partner
Cristián Eyzaguirre
Partner
Gonzalo Fernández
Partner
Cristián Figueroa
Partner
Manuel José Garcés
Partner
Ignacio Gillmore
Partner
Francisco Guzmán
Partner
José Tomás Hurley
Partner
Pablo Iacobelli
Partner
Juan Guillermo Levine
Emeritus Partner
Claudio Lizana
Partner
Juan Francisco Mackenna
Partner
Aldo Molinari
Partner
Felipe Moro
Partner
Fernando Noriega
Partner
José Pardo
Partner
Lorena Pavic
Partner
Diego Peralta
Partner
Jessica Power
Partner
Ricardo Reveco
Partner
Juan Carlos Riesco
Partner
Marcos Ríos
Partner
Patricia Silberman
Partner
Alfonso Silva
Partner
Juan Pablo Stitchkin
Partner
Jorge Ugarte
Partner
Francisco Ugarte
Partner
Salvador Valdés
Partner
Rafael Vergara
Partner
Matías Vergara
PartnerAssociates

Franco Aguirre
Associate
Juan Ignacio Alarcón
Associate
Pablo Albertz
Associate
Camila Albornoz
Associate
Eduardo Alcaíno
Associate
Carlos Alcalde
Associate
Rodrigo Aldoney
Senior Counsel
Catalina Aldunate
Associate
Florencia Aleuanlli
Associate
Ignacio Alfaro
Associate
Carolina Allard
Associate
Victoria Alonso
Associate
Javiera Álvarez
Associate
María Anguita
Associate
Tomás Appelgren
Associate
Javiera Avilés
Associate
Stefani Baeza
Associate
Carolina Baeza
Associate
Ismael Bahamonde
Associate
Cristóbal Balic
Associate
Maximiliano Barrenechea
Associate
Manuel José Barros
Associate
Pablo Bauer
Associate
Sofía Beckdorf
Associate
Camila Beltrán
Associate
Felipe Bravo
Associate
Cristina Busquets Busquets
Associate
Vesna Camelio
Associate
Martín Canessa
Associate
Andrés Carrasco
Associate
Francisca Castillo
Associate
Javiera Chacón
Associate
Sergio Cifuentes
Associate
Maximiliano Concha
Associate
Francisco Contreras
Associate
Josefa Contreras
Associate
Alicia Corbo
Associate
Emilia Corbo
Associate
Francisco Corona
Counsel
Joaquín Correa
Associate
Jaime Coutts
Associate
Stefano De Cristofaro
Associate
Angélica De la Carrera
Associate
Juan Pablo De la Maza
Associate
Josefa Del Real
Associate
Enzo Devoto
Associate
Montserrat Diez
Associate
Antonio Dourthe
Associate
Ignacio Echeverría
Associate
Benjamín Echeverría
Associate
Ricardo Edwards
Associate
Carla Encalada
Associate
Claudio Escobar
Associate
José Antonio Espinosa
Associate
Paulina Espinoza
Associate
Arturo Fasani
Associate
Guillermo Feliú
Associate
Tamara Feliú
Associate
Pablo Fernández
Associate
Octavia Figueroa
Associate
Ismael Figueroa
Associate
Antonieta Flores
Associate
Fernando Flores
Associate
Cristóbal Flores
Associate
Nicolás Fontaine
Associate
Arturo Fontecilla
Associate
Nicolás Fosk
Associate
Esteban Fresno
Associate
José Pedro Fuentealba
Associate
Sebastián Fuentes
Associate
Ignacio Gallego
Associate
Raimundo Gálvez
Associate
Consuelo Gálvez
Associate
Matías Garcés
Associate
Paulina García
Associate
Gabriela García
Associate
Fernando García
Counsel
Matías Gatica
Associate
Jorge Gatica
Associate
María Paz Godoy
Associate
Sebastián Gómez
Associate
Daniela González
Associate
Fernanda Gorgollón
Associate
Joaquín Granados
Associate
Vicente Güell
Associate
Tomás Guevara
Associate
Pía Guglielmetti
Associate
Pedro Gutiérrez
Associate
Kureusa Hara
Associate
Jaime Henríquez
Associate
Felipe Hepner
Associate
Tomás Hernández
Associate
Javiera Herrera
Associate
María Jesús Herrera
Associate
Gonzalo Herreros
Associate
Felipe Hinzpeter
Associate
Beatriz Holmgren
Associate
Diego Hormazábal
Associate
Diego Ibarrola
Associate
Josefina Iglesias
Associate
Valentina Inostroza
Associate
Tomás Iturriaga
Associate
Tomás Jadresic
Associate
Sebastian Jara
Associate
Francisco Jiménez
Associate
Ximena Jirón
Associate
Loreto Joannon
Associate
Carla Karzulovic
Associate
Pilar Krauss
Associate
Valentina Kuscevic
Associate
Santiago Lagos
Associate
Patricio Laporta
Associate
Diego Lasagna
Associate
Andrés Latorre
Associate
Camila Lavín
Associate
Francisco León
Associate
Daniela León
Associate
Camila Lira
Associate
Óscar Lizana
Associate
Benjamín López
Associate
Daniela Lozano
Associate
Gonzalo Lucero
Associate
Mateo Magasich
Associate
Nicole Magendzo
Associate
Yoel Magendzo
Associate
Gustavo Marambio
Associate
Nicolás Marín
Associate
Josefina Marshall
Associate
Eduardo Martin
Counsel
Raúl Mazzarella
Associate
Sebastián Melero
Associate
José Ignacio Mercado
Counsel
José Ignacio Millañir
Associate
Carolina Miller
Associate
Elías Mohor
Associate
Pablo Morales
Associate
Sofía Muñoz
Associate
Melissa Náquira
Associate
Borja Ochagavía
Associate
María Luisa Oliva
Associate
Andrea Opazo
Associate
José Santos Ossa
Associate
Matías Osses
Associate
Sara Ovalle
Associate
Ricardo Padilla
Associate
Fernanda Pardo
Associate
Pablo Pavez
Associate
Mónica Pérez
Associate
Martín Pérez Cotapos
Associate
Alfonso Pérez De Arce
Associate
Daniela Pfeffer
Associate
Carmenmaría Poblete
Associate
Caterina Ravera
Associate
Julio Recordon
Associate
Natalia Reinicke
Associate
Eduardo Reveco
Associate
Loreto Ribera
Associate
Constanza Rivera
Associate
Domingo Russi
Associate
Javier Salgado
Associate
Rodrigo Sifón
Associate
Catalina Silva
Associate
Pía Smith
Associate
Jorge Soto
Associate
Daniela Soto
Associate
Gonzalo Soto
Associate
Camila Suárez
Associate
Marcela Tapia
Associate
Francisco Torm Metz
Associate
Alejandro Toro
Associate
Fernanda Torres
Associate
Benjamín Torres
Associate
Constanza Trisotti
Associate
Carlos Troncoso
Associate
Trinidad Tupper
Associate
Felipe Tupper
Associate
Cristóbal Ureta
Associate
Maximiliano Urrutia
Associate
María Ignacia Urzúa
Associate
Nicolás Valdés
Associate
Fernanda Valdés
Associate
Catalina Valenzuela
Associate
Tomás Varela
Associate
Sebastián Vásquez
Associate
Rocío Véliz
Associate
Giannina Veniú
Associate
Pedro Pablo Vigneaux
Associate
Roberto Villaseca
Associate
Juan Pablo Vukasovic
Associate
Catalina Walker
Associate
Felipe Wiener
Associate
Raimundo Yáñez
Associate
Samin Yousefi
Associate
Vicente Yubini
Associate
Patricio Zapata
Senior CounselOther

Sofía Contreras
Head of Internal Communications and Social Media
Alejandra Del Río
Regulatory Affairs Manager
Magdalena Engel
Marketing Manager
Tomás Flores
Patent Specialist
Jorge Fuentes
Director – IP/IT
Pablo Gangas
Certified Accountant
Juan Francisco Hinojosa
Patent Specialist
Javier Leiva
Certified Accountant
Mario Montes
Patent Specialist
Gabriela Olivares
Patent Specialist
Javiera Péndola
Patent and Regulatory Affairs Specialist
Juan Pablo Qin
Project Advisor
Mariela Riquelme
Certified Accountant
Alejandra Risso
Certified Accountant
Lorena Rivera
Patent Specialist
Mariana Sepúlveda
Senior Economist
Belén Serrano
Certified Accountant
Raquel Zuloaga
Senior Patent Specialist
Maggie Fernandez
Head of Business DevelopmentArticles
Chilean government announces its tax reform proposal
Through an announcement issued by the Ministry of Finance, Mario Marcel, the government presented the general outlines of its tax reform proposal. This reform would consist of four bills (two of which would be submitted to Congress during July, and the remaining ones during the fourth quarter), which will be relevant to know in order to analyze the details of this announcement. On our web page (https://reformatributaria.carey.cl) we will keep you informed of the presentation of these bills, together with the news of their discussion...
Press
Brookfield acquires majority stake in the Chilean solar project, Solarity
Brookfield acquires majority stake in Chilean solar power group Lily Squires The renewable energy branch of Canadian asset management fund Brookfield has turned to Carey to acquire a majority stake in Chilean solar project company Solarity. Prieto advised the seller, Chilean energy-focused holding company Light E, while the Solarity’s co-founders, Horacio Melo and José Luis Carvallo, enlisted Echeverría Ilharreborde Scagliotti. The deal closed on 17 March for an undisclosed amount. Brookfield invested in Solarity to help the Chilean energy group expand and achieve its goal of having 1,000 operational plants by 2030...
Chile’s oEnergy gets financing for solar plants
Chile’s oEnergy gets financing for solar plants Lily Squires Chilean renewables group oEnergy has hired Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York and Guerrero Olivos in Santiago to obtain financing from Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura (CIFI) to develop solar projects. The lender turned to Clifford Chance LLP in Washington, DC and Chilean firm Carey. The deal closed on 11 March. The company will use the funds to develop 24 solar projects with a total capacity of 72 megawatts. The facilities will be constructed under Chile’s distributed generation regime, Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida (PMGD)...
Blogs
Chilean Tax Reform
A new project to reform and modernize the Chilean tax system, and boost investment in the country, was presented by the government of President Sebastián Piñera on August 23, 2018. Through this website, and as with the two previous tax reforms, Carey will offer an analysis of the main proposed...
Hipervínculos
Privacy, Technology and Telecommunications blog
Water Code Reform
During March 2011, a draft bill was introduced through parliamentary motion, initiating the discussion of a comprehensive amendment of the Water Code. During its legislative discussion, the project has been subject to significant changes through substitutive indications submitted in 2014 by the...