Description
Stephan is the head of the Dispute Resolution Group at A/C/R. He has worked as a civil, commercial, environmental, and administrative litigation lawyer for more than thirteen years, in different venues and courts, including Civil Trial Courts, Appellate Courts, Supreme Court, Public Procurement Court, Environmental Courts, Institutional Arbitration (i.e CAM), ad-hoc arbitration, International Court of Arbitration (ICC), and before different authorities and public entities in administrative proceedings, summaries, claims and finning proceedings. Also, is Head of the Regulatory and Environmental Group at A/C/R. He specializes in matters related to risk management and ESG from a regulatory risk perspective, working on their prevention.
During his career, he has represented several national and multinational companies and high-income persons, in matters related to aquiculture, retail, mining, financial services, agriculture, nuclear medicine, vehicle inspections, shareholder agreements, education, among others, in all their requirements associated to dispute Resolution. Also, he has acted on behalf of two counties of the central region of Chile, in regulatory, environmental, and civil matters.
He is endorsed by The Legal 500, Latin Lawyer, Best Lawyers and Leaders League.
Practice Areas
Dispute Resolution | Regulatory, Environmental and Compliance
2015 – Master in Corporate Governance, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
2013 – Master of Law (LL.M.), University of California, Berkeley
2009 – Tort Seminar, Universidad de Salamanca
2009 – Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law
Studies
Relevant Experience
• NuevaUnion | Advised this mining company, owned by Teck and Newmont Goldcorp, on a strategy towards coastal indigenous communities, in the process under the Lafkenche law, where indigenous communities have the preeminent right to exploit a coastal area where the mining port of the project would be located.
• Novofish | Advised this smolt producer before the Chilean environmental authorities, due to a request made by local communities for the invalidation of its Environmental Qualification Resolution for one of its new projects.
• Unilever | Advised this transnational consumer products company on the analysis of regulatory compliance, special administrative sanctioning procedures with the health authority, processes for the use and disposal of imported products, product labelling and advertising, presentations at the Chilean Superintendency of Electricity and Fuels and processing of applications at the level of the Chilean Environmental Assessment Service.
• Comercial Depor (Umbro Chile) | Representation in a dispute arising with Blanco y Negro S.A., assignee of Colo Colo’s rights, regarding a disagreement arising from a license and sponsorship contract. The claimant indicated that our client breached the contract by allegedly not paying due installments, upon being notified of the contract’s early termination, due to unforeseeable circumstances.
• Universidad San Sebastián | Advises this university throughout a dispute with real estate developing company Inmobiliaria B3, of the Boetsch Group, before the Santiago Arbitration and Mediation Centre, with the former seeking resolution of a joint venture between the two parties as well as damages for breach of contract.
• CGM Nuclear | Advice in a conflict with shareholders of a PET-scan company, under the Rules of Procedure of the Center for Arbitration and Mediation of Santiago.
• Novofish | Advice before Environmental Authorities and Environmental Courts, regarding remedies and requests filed by local communities against the RCA of one of its pisciculture projects.
• Deportes Sparta | Advised on a civil action filed against it by local outsourcing company Benchmarking. The claimant seeks compensation for an alleged wrongful termination of a subcontracting agreement.
• SFA | Advised this local branch of the NFM Group, a leading supplier of soldier-related equipment and protection, on filling a civil legal action against a laboratory (LICTEX), for its negligence in reviewing our client’s products in the local police’s public bidding process for equipment for its officers, seeking damages of approximately USD 1.5 million.
