Rodrigo Riquelme Yanez

He has specialized in the resolution of high-complexity disputes, focusing his practice on national and international litigation and arbitration in a range of areas including public works concessions, infrastructure and large-scale construction and engineering projects. He is a specialist in Public Law, with postgraduate studies in Chile and abroad in the area of constitutional, regulatory and dispute resolution law. He consults on matters of public procurement, concession systems, energy and public health, Administrative Law and Public Law in general. His practice includes consulting on public procurement matters, specifically in the construction of State public works and public works under concession. This practice is focused on advising clients in their relations with the State and other actors during the beginning, execution and even end stages of their projects, participating in the negotiation process and acting in defense of their interests. He has notably acted as legal counsel to clients who have built public hospital infrastructure and roads over vast areas of the country. Likewise, he has acted as advisor to clients who have participated in the construction and management of public penitentiary works, airports, highways and other significant public works.

Rodrigo Riquelme is a partner in our Dispute Resolution group, and his practice is focused on arbitration and international litigation. He specializes in construction law and public works concessions.

Rodrigo Riquelme specializes in the resolution of complex disputes and has devoted the better part of his career to that subject. In recent years, his practice has focused on arbitration and in the areas of public works concessions, infrastructure and large construction and engineering projects.

He has been repeatedly acknowledged by Chambers and Partners, Leaders League, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal, LatinLawyer 250, LACCA as a leading practitioner in the fields of arbitration, construction, commercial litigation, projects And infrastructure, public law, government contracts. He was recognized by Leaders League as a leader in construction and arbitration.

He is also a professor of the Diploma Course in Construction Law at the University of Los Andes, Católica del Norte and of the Concessions Law course at Universidad del Desarrollo.

He is a professor of public works construction contracting in the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaíso.

From 2021 he is a professor in the Diploma in Real Estate Law and Business at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.