About

As the country’s’ principle electricity distributor, Enel Distribución Chile has almost 2 million customers serving an area that accounts for a large portion of the country’s population, representing around 40% of the country’s total energy sales. As a company that aims to provide power needed by Chile’s inhabitants for their development and growth, today its most pressing challenge is to open up power to new users and contributing new products and services to improve quality of life in thousands of homes. The legal team at Enel Distribución has been supporting this commitment by overseeing projects from a legal perspective including the company’s initiative of installing 50,000 intelligent meters in Santiago, complimenting the technological advances implemented by the company to incorporate infrastructure with the capacity for two-way communication with digitised and interconnected networks. The legal department of Enel Distribución is driven forward by general counsel Horacio Aránguiz who oversees the function’s strategy and regulatory compliance and is noted for his good corporate perspective and the ability to provide efficient and fast legal solutions while retaining focus and clarity on the work he is performing. ‘He is a very hard working counsel and a real expert in energy distribution law and regulations and is very well regarded by the market for that’, says one nominator. By implementing a great amount of trust and confidence in his team he has continually encouraged and inspired the function to also operate in a similar manner. It is to this end that they have worked on some of the company’s largest scale transactions, one being the regulatory and legal establishment of the new aforementioned system in Santiago which is safer for clients as maintenance work can be carried out remotely reducing the need for home visits to read meters or reconnect supply after faults or outages.