Sebastián Abogabir

Energy and Natural Resources

Project Finance

Environment

Projects

Water Law

Sebastián is a partner and a member of the energy, natural resources and environmental law areas and leads the water law department. He specializes in energy related M&A, project development, financing and permitting of energy projects and renewables, general regulatory, pre-emptive environmental assessment, oversight, and litigation. In addition, he is active in climate change issues, electromobility and green hydrogen projects.

He is a board member of the Chilean electric vehicles association (AVEC) and also served as director of the Association of Small and Medium Hydroelectric Companies (APEMEC), and as co-secretary general of the Alumni Association, Academy of American and International Law.

Sebastián was General Co-Secretary of Academy of American and International Law Alumni Association (2010-2011) and Foreign Associate with Jackson Walker LLP, Texas, USA (2010).

In the academic field, he is Professor of Environmental Law at the Urban Studies Institute department from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Professor in Environmental Law in the Real Estate Law and Business Diploma, from the same university, both since 2014.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Law

2008

Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA

Master of Laws (LL.M.) and Master’s in Public Policy (M.P.P.)

2010

Southwestern Institute for International and Comparative Law, Texas, USA

Academy of American and International Law

2010

Santiago, Chile