During March 2011, a draft bill was introduced through parliamentary motion, initiating the discussion of a comprehensive amendment of the Water Code. During its legislative discussion, the project has been subject to significant changes through substitutive indications submitted in 2014 by the Bachelet government, and in 2019 by the Piñera government, and successive changes to its legislative priority. Currently, the draft bill is being discussed in the Agriculture Committee of the...
Practice Expertise
- Environmental Law and Litigation
- Litigation
- Arbitration
- Consumer Law and Advertisement
Areas of Practice
- Arbitration
- Consumer Law and Advertisement
- Environmental Law and Litigation
- Litigation
- Consumer Law and Advertising View More
Profile
Partner of Carey and co-head of the firm's Litigation and Arbitration Group. His practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation and administrative and environmental regulatory litigation. He also has experience in domestic and international commercial and investment arbitration.
Bar Admissions
Chile (2002).New York (pending - Bar exam approved in February 2015).
Education
- Law, Universidad de Chile (Summa Cum Laude).
- Outstanding Internship Award, Judicial Assistance Corporation (2000).
- LL.M., Columbia University (Beca Chile Scholarship) (2013).
- Pedro Nicolás Montenegro Award. Ranked highest in his class.
- Fernando Fueyo Laneri Foundation Award granted to the best thesis of the year (2002).
Areas of Practice
- Arbitration
- Consumer Law and Advertisement
- Environmental Law and Litigation
- Litigation
- Consumer Law and Advertising
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Professional Activities and Experience
- Recognized in Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Chambers Latin America.
- Recognized in Dispute Resolution: Litigation, Legal 500.
- Recognized in Environment, Litigation and Arbitration, Latin Lawyer 250.
- Recognized in Arbitration and Mediation, Litigation and Product Liability Litigation, Best Lawyers.
- Recognized in Benchmark Litigation Latin America.
- Recognized in Arbitration and Litigation, Leaders League.
- Recognized in Consumer and Advertising, Leading Lawyers, Idealis.
- Recognized in Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Top Ranked Legal.
- Best Undergraduate Professor Award, Universidad de Chile (2009).
Professional Activities and Experience
- Visiting Attorney, International Arbitration Office, Herbert Smith Freehills, New York (2013-2014).
- Member of the Training and Continuing Education Committee of the Chilean Bar Association.
- Professor of Civil Law, Universidad de Chile (since 2003).
- Professor of Civil Law in several Chilean universities in undergraduate and graduate programs.
- Professor of the qualification and training program, Academia Judicial de Chile.
- Director of the Diploma Program in Civil Responsibility and Tort Law of the Law School, Universidad de Chile.
- Director of the Diploma Program in Consumer Law of the Law School, Universidad de Chile.
- Member of the Chilean Bar Association.
Articles
Technical Specification on Compliance Plans in the Context of the Amendment to the National Consumer Service
By Aldo Molinari |November 2019
- Co-author of the chapter "Chile: Trends and Developments" in the Chambers Global Practice Guide: Litigation, Chambers and Partners (2019).
- Co-author of the article “Some Elements of the Constructor’s Civil Liability. Special Emphasis in Fast Track Contracts.” Revista Chilena de Derecho Privado, Fundación Fernando Fueyo Laneri (2018).
- Author of "Courts and Environmental Actions", Lecture Series, Chilean Bar Association (2017).
- Author of the article "Tort Liability of Finance Leasing Companies", published in Studies of Private Law in recognition to Professor Gonzalo Figueroa Yáñez, Editorial Jurídica de Chile (2008).
- Author of the book "From the Civil Liability to the Damage Law and Civil Prevention of Damages", LexisNexis Chile (2004).
- Author of several legal papers in Chilean and foreign law reviews.
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