Arteaga Gorziglia & Cia Abogados

Arteaga Gorziglia is one of the best boutique law firms in Santiago de Chile, which specialises in counselling local and foreign companies in business law, transactional work and regulatory matters. Its core areas are corporate and commercial law; energy law; regulatory and environmental law; tax law; and litigation and dispute resolution. The firm’s purpose is to provide its clients with first quality, highly personalised, timely and efficient professional service, with clear understanding of their businesses and specific needs. The lawyers at Arteaga Gorziglia are among the top graduates of the best law schools in Chile, with post-graduate studies in the best universities in the United States and Europe, with experience in top ranked international law firms abroad.

Main areas of practice

Mergers and acquisitions: Arteaga Gorziglia has an experienced M&A team, which has counsel in operations from tender offers involving listed companies up to acquisitions of closed companies in all sorts of economic sectors and industries, mainly in the infrastructure, energy, retail and manufacture industries.

Corporate restructuring and project finance: Arteaga Gorziglia has a corporate practice with a modern and efficient structure, focused on providing tailored and dedicated services to the firm’s clients, with experience in cross-border operations and international corporate reorganisations, and is very well known and recognized in Chile for being at the forefront of the process creating and structuring ground-breaking finance structures for infrastructure and energy projects and public works in the country.

Foreign investment: An important number of the firm’s clients are foreign and multinational companies doing business in Chile or entering into joint venture operations with Chilean companies. It offers its foreign clients advice in creating the most appropriate tax and legal structure to develop their business in Chile according to their needs.

Energy: The lawyers in Arteaga Gorziglia have participated and led projects for the construction, financing and operation, as well as the day to day legal aspects of wind farms, photovoltaic farms, CSP power plants, hydropower generation plants, thermoelectric power plants, and high voltage transmission lines. They also help its clients in the drafting and negotiation of Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contracts (“EPC”) and Operation and Maintenance Contracts (“O&M) for the construction and operation of wind, solar, thermoelectric power plants (gas, diesel, coal), for the construction of high voltage transmission lines, and for the construction and operation of regasification terminal of LNG.

Infrastructure: The firm’s lawyers have vast experience in public concession of airports, prisons, power plants, ports, transmission lines, shopping malls, strip centers, and construction of mayor buildings for educational purposes. The firm has participated in the finance of the main toll roads, airports and ports of the country.

Tax: The firm’s specialist tax lawyers have vast experience in counselling companies and individuals in all kinds of highly complex matters, especially in tax planning and in the defence of the taxpayer before the Chilean tax authorities.

Litigation: Arteaga Gorziglia has a litigation and dispute resolution practice focused on commercial, civil, tax, arbitration and labour disputes as well as environmental and administrative litigations. Its lawyers are leading professionals in the area with an outstanding experience in highly sophisticated litigation cases in these fields. The firm also gives preventive counselling to identify potential conflicts a client could have beforehand. The Litigation team has extensive experience in presenting discrepancies before specialised and technical courts, such as Environmental Courts and the Panel of Experts of the General Law of Electric Services.

Real estate: Arteaga Gorziglia has a thorough understanding of regulatory, urban development, corporate, commercial and environmental issues, which enables the firm to provide comprehensive advice in this market. The firm has broad experience in urban planning, real estate project development, construction, related contracts, granting permits to build and secure finalised work, in addition to providing advice to clients on the resolution of conflicts between construction companies and their clients.

Environmental and natural resources: Arteaga Gorziglia has a leading environmental law practice in Chile. The firm’s lawyers have vast experience in environmental law and regulatory practice, including environmental litigation, environmental due diligences, urban planning and construction, energy, mining and natural resources. The firm provides environmental legal assistance to clients working in all economic sectors, providing its services to already operating companies as well as to greenfield projects. The firm also has performed legal due diligences of mining properties, assisted its clients in the constitution of different mining properties, and it has acted as legal counsel for clients, in operations that includes the transfer of mining properties and negotiation of different contracts that involve mining law.