About

Operating a total generating capacity of 6,351 MW, Enel Generación Chile is one of the country’s largest electricity generator. Around two thirds of its operations are focused on hydroelectric production, one third is dedicated to thermal and it also has a smaller wind generation business division. To highlight the company’s significance in the country, it provides around 38% of energy to The Central Interconnected System (SIC), Chile’s main electrical system which covers 93% of the total population. Ignacio Quiñones has been general counsel for Enel Generación Chile since 2013, having accumulated 27 years of experience in other companies beforehand. Leading a team of seven, he successfully undertook cost saving exercises in the legal function and has been commended for his handling of various ‘reorganisations and M&A of companies with high results in a controversial environment with minority shareholders’. Quiñones’ formidable CV includes eight years as general counsel for Anglo American Chile, where he was commended for his role in resolving a dispute with Codelco over a stake participation in Los Bronces Mine. Another feature of his successful tenure at Enel Generación Chile has been working on various cases on arbitration disputes concerning power supply agreements to relevant copper mines in Chile. Whilst a legal advisor for Compañía Minera Zaldívar, a subsidiary of Placer Dome, Quiñones highlights his involvement in Las Cristinas Gold Project association with Edelca to connect Venezuela and northern Brazil using a 400 kV power line as another career highlight. According to one source Quiñones is described as ‘a professional with 27 years of legal experience as an in-house lawyer in major companies with active participation on corporate functions, project development, compliance, energy, procurement, litigation, conflict solution and arbitration management’. With such distinguished pedigree it is no wonder that he enjoys a trusted and close working relationship with the CEO Valter Mero and the rest of the senior executives in Enel Generación Chile.