‘Splendidly managed with extensive patience, hard work and dedication’, Clyde & Co’s eight-member litigation and arbitration practice covers corporate disputes, contractual liability, insurance claims, torts, and bankruptcies. The department is co-led by Jorge Meneses (‘always delivers a high-level professional service’), who additionally heads up the firm’s public law offering; and civil, commercial, constitutional and procedural law specialist Marcelo Guerrero. The department further includes complex disputes expert Arturo Majlis, who ’plays a key role in the management of litigation’; legal director Andrés Cabello, who acts in a range of civil disputes, arbitrations, and public law proceedings; and civil and commercial litigation and arbitration-focused senior associate Francisco Jiménez.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘A highly competitive team that always provides a high standard and quality service.’

  • ‘The attorneys relentlessly work to bring about structured solutions with careful insight and foresight.’

  • ‘This team is splendidly managed with extensive patience, hard work and dedication to all aspects, including the human side to cases.’

  • ‘Arturo Majlis plays a key role in the management of litigation, making sure that all parts of the process progress in accordance with the agreed structure, and that the desired and planned outcome is in sight.’

  • ‘Jorge Meneses has astute vision and the right judgement to create good outcomes.’

  • ‘Jorge Meneses always delivers a high-level professional service.’

  • ‘Jorge Meneses and Andrés Cabello give all the support necessary, so as to pursue the necessary legal procedures necessary and achieve clients’ goals.’

  • ‘Andrés Cabello is very meticulous in his analysis.’

Key clients

  • Feller Rate Clasificadora de Riesgo
  • Laboratorio Maver
  • Minera Tres Valles
  • Catalina Parra
  • Alberto Parra
  • Renato Traverso
  • Tepillé
  • Constructora Bimoli
  • Orión Seguros Generales
  • Inversiones Punta Blanca
  • Equinox Chile Limitada
  • Duilio Aste Schiappacasse
  • Verificación e Inversiones Publicitarias
  • IPAL
  • Bridgestone Chile
  • Comunidad de Aguas Canal Asiento
  • Sociedad de Rentas Logísticas Santiago
  • Luis Cubillos
  • Patricia Heredia
  • Marion Silberstein

Work highlights

  • Representing Feller Rate in relation to its alleged role in the La Polar case, a major accounting fraud that occurred in 2011.
  • Representing Renato Traverso (and his companies Plásticos Pet and Traverso) in a lawsuit, which was brought by Manuel Cuesta (a former partner), in relation to a real estate sale in Santiago.
  • Acting for Catalina Parra and Alberto Parra, both children of the poet Nicanor Parra, in inheritance-related judicial proceedings.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jorge Meneses