Partner
Felipe is in charge of the Public, Regulatory and Environmental Law area of the study where he focuses on providing strategic advice to his clients, especially in the area of environmental assessment of investment projects, advice on administrative regulations, administrative sanctioning procedures, administrative litigation, legal reports, presentations to the Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic, public procurement, etc. He has focused his career in the public sector, where he served as Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment, Legal Advisor to the Superintendency of the Environment, Director of the Araucanía Environmental Assessment Service and Secretary of the Third Environmental Court of Valdivia. His time at these institutions has earned him deep knowledge of current regulations and litigious matters related to his area of practice.
PRACTICE AREAS
Public Law.
Environmental Law.
Regulatory Law and Administative Procedures.
EDUCATION
Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2005.
Degree in Sanctionatory Law, Universidad de Valladolid, 2014.
Master in Constitutional Procedure Law, Universidad de Talca, 2022.
ADMISSIONS
Chile, 2009.
WORK EXPERIENCE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
His experience has been mainly focused in the public sector as former Director of the Environmental Assessment Agency of the Araucanía Region, former Legal Advisor of the National Environmental Agency (Superintendencia del Mediombiente), former Law Secretary of the Third Court of the Environmental Court of Valdivia, and former Undersecretary of Environment.
Titular Counselor of the Board of Directors of the Innova Chile Committee of the Corporación de Fomento de la Producción (CORFO), since 2020.
President of the Geothermal Council of Chile, 2020 - 2021.
Member of Chilean Association of Environmental Law, since 2020.
Public Policy Advisor, of the Think Tank Libertad y Desarrollo, since 2020.
Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Environment of Chile, 2018 - 2020.
Attorney court clerk of the Third Environmental Court, 2015 - 2018.
Associate, Eyzaguirre & Cia., 2014.
Legal Advisor, Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente, 2012 - 2013.
Chief of staff of Undersecretary of the Environment of Chile, 2011 - 2012.
Director Regional Región de la Araucanía, Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental, 2010 - 2011.
Partner, Gómez & Riesco Abogados, 2008 - 2010.
PUBLICATIONS
"El carácter integrador de la legislación y de los instrumentos de gestión ambiental y la competencia exclusiva y excluyente de la Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente para la fiscalización, seguimiento y sanción de los instrumentos de gestión ambiental establecidos en el artículo 2° de la Ley Orgánica de la Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente", together with Leslie Cannoni and Cristóbal Osorio. Revista de Derecho Ambiental N°5, Centro de Derecho Ambiental, Universidad de Chile Law School, Santiago, 2015, pp. 115 - 151.
"La Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente y el procedimiento administrativo sancionador ambiental. Principios del procedimiento y los incentivos al cumplimiento ambiental", in "Gestión del cumplimiento ambiental" (Collective work), RIL Editores, Colección Estudios Urbanos UC, Santiago, 2021, pp. 459 - 496.
"Algunas ideas sobre la participación ciudadana en el proyecto de ley marco de cambio climático", Revista de Derecho Aplicado LLM UC N°7, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, 2021.
LANGUAGES
Spanish.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE