Latin America - Chile

CMS Carey & Allende

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The four-member real estate practice at CMS Carey & Allende is highly focused on urban development, infrastructure projects and associated regulatory matters, and demonstrates particular expertise regarding the contractual tax and financial aspects of the sector, as well as the design of appropriate legal structures and property liquidations. The practice further encompasses zoning issues, easements, expropriations and the regularisation of the property titles of industrial plants and other real estate assets. Other key areas range from administrative litigation, to regulatory compliance and the procurement of permits. Leading the Santiago office’s real estate & construction and public & regulatory law practices, Pabla Gaínza's wide-ranging practice includes advising on matters in the industrial, retail, residential, educational, and hospitality and gaming segments. Experienced senior associate Karin Muñoz assists investors with title searches, real estate acquisitions, sales, and urban planning and zoning.

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  • 'Strong and well balanced team, with special leadership from Pabla Gainza.'
  • 'Pabla Gainza's commitment to her clients is exceptional. shee goes far beyond real estate practice, and is personally involved in the good results of the business.'
  • 'The team led by Pabla Gainza, has been working with us since 2018, they have been able to respond and plan strategies according to the progress of the project.'
  • 'Pabla Gainza is an innate leader. She is capable of thinking beyond the box, raising risks or action strategies, to solve the problems that the project encounters during its development. She is able to explain to other who are not expert in the subject, and she is extremely thorough in her work. And despite the fact that she has more clients than our company, she always makes us feel that we are the only company, since when it is an emergency or we need a specific analysis, she always complies.'

Key clients

  • Banco Santander Chile
  • Santander Invetsment (Navegante Americo Vespucio)
  • Antofagasta Railway Company
  • AKI KB Minibodegas
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
  • Inmobiliaria GAC
  • Kineret Inversiones
  • Dekra Revisión Técnica
  • Clarial Inversiones
  • Marbella Chile
  • Stella

Work highlights

  • Advised Banco Santander on the real estate and corporate aspects of the acquisition of land for the construction of its new corporate building in Territoria.
  • Advised Kineret on the acquisition of apartments, warehouses and parking lots.
  • Advised Inmobiliaria GAC on a land search, promises to enter into purchase, sale and lease agreements, and urban planning advice on land use.

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Pabla is partner and leads the Real Estate & Construction practice area. She has been active in the sector for over two decades, she is a go-to practitioner for urban planning and zoning matters, development of pipelines, electric lines and other easement matters, as well as expropriation processes and regularisation of industrial plants and other real estate assets. Pabla was a part of the team that developed a Methodology for Integrated Projects for Santiago’s Inner Circle, for the World Bank’s PNUD program. She has also provided urban legal consulting for the Metropolitan SEREMI MINVU (Regional Secretariat for Urban Development Ministry of Chile), for the modification and creation of the Santiago Metropolitan Regulation Plan, on matters related to Patrimony and Public Areas. She is highly involved in the practice of contentious administrative cases, before the various State public entities, such as the Comptroller General of the Republic, SEREMI MINVU, Health Ministry Regional Secretariat’s Office, Urban Development Division, Public Works Directorate, etc. Key clients: Antofagasta Minerals (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB)), Banco Santander Chile S.A., Aki KB Minibogedas SpA., Banchile Inversiones S.A., Nevasa S.A. Administradora de Fondos, Unilever Chile S.A., Estée Lauder S.A.  (Cela Cosméticos S.A.)

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