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Pabla is Head of the Real Estate Group at CMS Carey & Allende, covering Zoning, Infrastructure, and Regulatory Law. Her practice has allowed her to participate in areas such as urban planning, territorial planning instruments, urbanization, and plotting, as well as in the establishment of strategies for the planning of industrial distribution centers, supermarkets, shopping malls, asphalt terminals, gaming casinos, hotels, religious projects, residential areas, and educational establishments.

She was a part of the team that developed a Methodology for Integrated Projects for Santiago’s Inner Ring, for the World Bank’s PNUD program. She has also provided urban legal consulting for the Metropolitan SEREMI MINVU (Regional Secretariat for Urban Development Ministry of Chile), for the modification and creation of the Santiago Metropolitan Regulation Plan, on matters related to Patrimony and Public Areas.

In Infrastructure, Pabla has headed work teams for local and foreign client projects such as public work concessions, the raising of new routes, surface property analysis, negotiation, establishment of easements, reversal of railways, and land use conversion. She has experience in developing strategies for the procurement of permits and regularization of sewage treatment plants.

She is highly involved in the practice of contentious administrative cases, before the various State public entities, such as the Comptroller General of the Republic, SEREMI MINVU, Health Ministry Regional Secretariat’s Office, Urban Development Division, Public Works Directorate, etc.

Career

1995 Law Degree, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso School of Law

1997 Certified in Tax Law for Current Businesses and Corporations, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez

1995-2010 Worked for the Real Estate practice group at Cariola, Diez, Perez, Cotapos law firm

2005 Certified in Financial Administrative Law, with a minor in “Public Assets, Urban Development, and Territory”, Universidad Católica de Chile School of Law

2010 Joined (CMS) Carey & Allende as Director of the Real Estate & Zoning group

2012 Promoted to Partner

2018 Nominated as Chile Lawyer of the Year in Chambers Women in Law Awards: Latin America

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