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Known for its high capability regarding technological innovations, Enel Generación Chile’s legal team has recently introduced a new tool for legal case management called SUITE. ‘It’s a new software that allows a better interaction between external law firms and the work they perform for us,’ says the company’s general counsel Ignacio Quiñones Sotomayor. This new addition to the department’s workflow has contributed to its already strong transactional capabilities, with the team closing a number of landmark deals each year. The department’s recent participation in a major reorganising operation called Project Elqui, for instance, comes off the back of a flawless two-year transactional record, which includes, among others, multimillion sales of its share participation interests in Electrogas and GNL Quintero, a power supply agreement with Anglo American and an award of 54% of the supply bid for distribution companies for a total of 2,200GWh yearly. Humberto Bermudez, ‘whose participation has been decisive in controversial issues of great importance for the generation and distribution business of the company’, is one name mentioned in this year’s research. Commentators highlight Bermudez’ contributions in ‘conducting legal management of litigation and defence in administrative and judicial claims for Enel Chile and its subsidiaries in Chile’. Carlos Silva is another lawyer praised by sources, with particular praise for his contributions to the development of the second unit of the Bocamina Coal Power Plant from the early planning stages of the projects, as well as his advice on the aforementioned sale processes of GNL Quintero and Electrogas.