Mrs Romina Tobar > Prieto Abogados > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile
Prieto Abogados Offices
Alonso de Córdova 4355 (piso 15)
Vitacura
Santiago
Chile
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Mrs Romina Tobar
Work Department
Environment and Climate Change, Regulatory Law and Public Law
Position
Counsel
Career
Romina Tobar has been counsel of Prieto since 2023. She is part of the Firm’s environmental and regulatory team.
Specialist in environmental advice to investment projects in all their regulatory stages, with emphasis on energy, aquaculture, infrastructure and mining projects.
She has vast experience in environmental assessment in the SEIA, in processes of community participation and indigenous consultation, in permitting and administrative and judicial procedures in general from the developer perspective as well as from the regulator.
Before joining Prieto, she was head of the legal departament for the evaluation of the Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental.
She was previously an associate lawyer in the projects area at Vergara Galindo Correa and in the environment area at Correa Gubbins (Currently Correa Squella).
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
Law Degree from Universidad de Chile, 2008.
Diploma in Community Relations and Socio-environmental Conflict Prevention, Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2020.
Diploma in Natural Resources and Energy Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica, 2011.
Lawyer Rankings
Chile > Environment
‘One of the best with which clients could work‘, Prieto Abogados‘ energy-focused-environmental law team consistently participates in environmental assessment processes throughout Chile. The team additionally houses real estate industry experts, while also being active in environmental law-related sanctioning proceedings. The practice group’s recent mandates include assisting with environmental damages actions before Chile’s environmental courts in relation to soil, underground water and infrastructure, among other matters. Recently-promoted partner and practice head Agustín Martorell is an ‘exceptional lawyer‘, whose experience encompasses the mining, energy, infrastructure, and fishing and aquaculture sectors; while counsel and former Environmental Assessment Service legal department head, Romina Tobar, is an April 2023 recruit. In the associate pool, Ignacio Matte advises on environmental law and regulatory issues. Former associates Andrés Maldini and Isabel Becerra both departed the firm during 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Compliance
- Corporate and M&A
- Projects and infrastructure
- Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Environment
- Insurance
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Public law
- Real estate
- Tax
- TMT
- Dispute resolution: arbitration