Felipe Hoetz

Felipe Hoetz is a Partner who leads the Insurance team in our Santiago office with 25 years of experience in insurance, reinsurance and loss adjusting, with a focus on high-value losses. Since 2022, he is Lloyd's Attorney-in-Fact in Chile.

He has been involved in most of the largest claims in Chile, including mining, energy, property/business interruption and political risk. He also advises on regulatory matters.

Since 2017, Felipe sits at the board of the ARIAS LatAm Insurance/Reinsurance Arbitration and Mediation Centre and in 2022 he was elected vice-president of the Reinsurance working group of the Ibero-Latin American Committee of the International Insurance Law Association (CILA-AIDA). Previously (2014-16), he was president of the Chilean Association of Loss Adjusters (ALOSI) and the International Federation of Adjusting Associations (IFAA).

He holds a diploma in Negotiation/Mediation from Chile´s Catholic University (2022) and in International Relations from the War Academy of the Chilean Army and University of Los Andes (2021). He lectured at the Insurance Law Diploma of both universities and is member of the Chilean Society of International Law.

In November 2023, Felipe was elected president of the ARIAS LATAM Insurance/Reinsurance Arbitration and Mediation Centre and in early 2024 he was elected president of the Reinsurance working group of the Ibero-Latin American Committee of the International Insurance Law Association (CILA-AIDA).