Dispute Resolution: Arbitration

About

Provided by Ortúzar, Vergara & Boetsch Abogados

OVB Litigation team is best known for its involvement in significant and complex commercial disputes, assisting both national and foreign companies, in litigation proceedings. The Firm relies in a united team with years of experience. They are known for how to work with others, its flexible for the clients, and its approach that aligns the business and judicial interest, to find the better possible solution for the client. 

Key types of work:

- Civil and Commercial litigation

- Consumer law

- Administrative law

- Constitutional litigation

Work Highligts:

- Represented Arauco in claim against CGE, to recover damages suffered because of the wildfires; against claims for restitution of land, brought by members of native tribes under indigenous law; and against a claim of civil liability brought by a group of over 500 artisan fishermen, seeking damages over alleged contamination of a river in Valdivia, Chile.

- Representing Empresa Portuaria Valparaíso (EPV), in a dispute against Valparaiso Terminal de Pasajeros (VTP) in a prominent dispute affecting the cruise industry in Chile.

- Representing two town halls (Curacavi and María Pinto) and over 700 hundred farmers in a negotiation and civil actions against Colbún for its responsibility in the collapse of a tunnel that caused an incommensurable economic and social damage in the valley, causing the loss of around 16.000 hc of crops.

- Representing Engie in a dispute with Zofri.