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Ignacio Arteaga

Ignacio Arteaga

Work Department

Corporate M&A Law / Commercial Law / Regulatory Matters / Energy Law / Foreign Investments / Project Development / Arbitration.

Position

Founding Partner of Arteaga Gorziglia  and co-head of the Corporate Group and co-head of the Energy Group.

Career

Mr. Arteaga has over 30 years of professional experience, focusing his practice on electricity law, energy, commercial law and arbitration. He has advised numerous companies, national and foreign, in matters of energy law, regulatory matters, as well as in mergers and acquisitions, insolvency and corporate restructuring in various economic sectors.

He is an arbitrator of the Mediation and Arbitration Centre of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce since 2001. Chairman of the Social Union of Christian Businessmen, Executives and Entrepreneurs (USEC) in years 2017-2018. Member of the National Justice and Peace Commission since 2018.

Mr. Arteaga worked at Cariola Diez Pérez-Cotapos & Cía. (1995-2007) and  Clifford Chance, London (1997).  He also,  counts with an extensive teaching career, having served as Corporate Law professor of the course of business reorganization and M&A, and subsequently in Environmental Law, both at the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Languages

Spanish, English

Memberships

Chevening fellow (British Council Scholarship).

Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

Member of the International Bar Association - IBA.

Education

Lawyer, Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, graduated (1994). Master of Laws (LL.M.) The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, L.S.E. (1997). Program of Instruction for Lawyers (PIL) Harvard Law School, Negotiation Courses with the Professors Roger Fisher, Bruce Patton and Robert Mnookin (2000-2002). Post-graduate Diplomas in: Economic Administrative Law (Universidad Católica de Chile, 2006); Insolvency Law (Universidad de Chile, 2020); Electric Markets of the Future and its Regulation (Faculty of Engineering Universidad Católica, 2020); Artificial Intelligence and Law (Universidad Católica de Chile, 2021).

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