Ortúzar, Vergara & Boetsch Abogados

‘Top-level firm’ Ortúzar, Vergara & Boetsch Abogados fields ’extraordinary litigators’. The dispute resolution-focused boutique routinely handles major litigious cases, arbitrations and other ADR proceedings, its key areas of work being civil and commercial litigation, consumer matters, administrative law and constitutional disputes. Regular clients for the firm come from a range of industries, including construction, banking, aquaculture, real estate, mining, insurance and retail. The practice is co-led at name-partner level by veteran litigation and arbitration expert Alvaro Ortúzar; Nicolás Vergara, a specialist in shareholder, consumer and insurance litigation, as well as antitrust and class action cases; and construction, energy and insurance litigator, Cristián Boetsch, who is the ‘person to turn to every time a complex or sensitive topic arises’. The next line of key litigators comprises the ’extremely meticulous’ Benjamín Morales, who primarily acts in energy, construction and insurance litigation; Diego Navarrete, whose litigious practice covers energy, marine ports, and shareholder and SPA agreement-related commercial conflicts. Organic growth during 2023 saw the promotion of experienced civil and commercial litigator Andrés Cáceres to partner; while at associate level, senior Manuela Ugarte Enrione (a co-founder of Women in Dispute Resolution Chile), undertakes arbitration, civil and commercial legislation, and class action cases.