Gutiérrez, Waugh, Jimeno & Asenjo

Managing Partner: Cristobal Jimeno
Senior Partner: Pedro Pablo Gutierrez
Number of partners: 7
Number of associates: 10

Firm Overview:
Gutiérrez, Waugh, Jimeno & Asenjo was founded in the year 2006, its four founding partners coming from Chile’s biggest law firms where they had created and developed the dispute resolution departments. Since then, it has become a leading law firm in dispute resolution and arbitration —ranked band 1 in several ranking directories— and has been involved in most high-profile cases in Chile in the last sixteen years. It is a boutique firm that normally represents relevant actors in each industry (construction, energy, mining, banking, financial, insurance, retail, etc.) across different adversarial procedures (arbitration, litigation, bankruptcy procedures, etc.). The firm has also been asked to represent the state in different disputes. One of the firm’s main features is that its partners are personally and deeply involved in each case the firm assumes and that they have consistently been highlighted as relevant practitioners in the dispute resolution and arbitration fields in the country.

Main Areas of Practice:
National and international arbitration; civil lawsuits; commercial lawsuits; economic lawsuits; lawsuits in the construction industry; lawsuits in the insurance industry; capital market; antitrust law; administrative law; banking legislation; bankruptcy procedures; among others.

Languages:
English, Spanish.

Clients:
Codelco; Moneda Asset Administradora de Fondos S.A.; Cía. Minera Teck Quebrada Blanca; Echeverría Izquierdo S.A. y filiales; Andritz Chile Ltda.; Glencore; Metrogas S.A.; Pesquera Coloso S.A.; Banco BBVA; Telefónica S.A.; Allianz Seguros; Vial y Vives S.A.; Empresas CMPC S.A.; AFP Provida; Ripley; Entel PCS Telecomunicaciones S.A.; among others.