Carolina Baeza
Associatecbaezap@carey.cl
+56 2 2928 2612
Her practice focuses on administrative, constitutional and regulatory law, advising several national and international clients, as well as public entities and state-owned enterprises on all sorts of matters directly or indirectly related to the public sector in Chile, including concessions, public procurement, negotiation and development of public-private associations, litigation before Chilean administrative bodies, ordinary and special courts of justice, the Chilean Public Procurement Court and the Chilean Constitutional Court, legal defense against sanctions imposed by public entities, advice on sectoral regulations in various markets, regarding public policies and legislative matters, as well as issues related to the Chilean Transparency Law.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Codelco on day-to-day regulatory matters regarding a corporate vehicle created to develop partnerships with private companies in Salar de Atacama and Salar de Maricunga, in the context of the lithium national strategy announced by president Boric early in 2023.
- Antofagasta Minerals on the preparation of a legal report regarding the entry into force of a regulation issued by the National Standards Institute for the seismic design of industrial structures and facilities.
- Unnio Seguros Generales on its successful defense in several audits and sanctioning procedures before the Commision for the Financial Market (CMF), regarding the non-compliance with instructions issued by said regulator for the preparation of financial statements, including filing an appeal for reconsideration.
- Nova Austral on various oppositions to requests of information made by individuals through the Law of Transparency, including the respective discharges before the Council for Transparency and claims of illegality before the Court of Appeals. The advice resulted in the protection of Nova Austral's economic and commercial rights, by the non-disclosure of the requested information.
- Algonquin Power & Utilities, controller of ESSAL (Empresa de Servicios Sanitarios de Los Lagos), on a tariff setting process for the period 2021 - 2026, before the Superintendence of Sanitary Services, for the service of production and distribution of fresh water and treatment and disposal of sewage.
- A relevant renewable energy company on the design and preparation of a strategy to reverse the new energy efficiency measuring method, which was approved in the recent modifications to the power transfer regulations of the General Law Electrical Services.
- A company specializing in data, technology and health analytics, in relation to a service contract signed with the Ministry of Health, in order to obtain the formalization and payment of services that were provided.
- Arauco, a relevant forestry company in Chile, on a series of conferences with its Board of Directors regarding the constituent process and the proposal for the new Constitution, including the main issues discussed. The advice included several reports containing a detailed analysis of the potential implications and risks of the new Constitution's rules.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
- Recognized in Administrative and Public Law, Best Lawyers.
ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Teaching Assistant of Administrative Law, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (since 2023).
- Teaching Assistant of Constitutional Law, Universidad Católica de Chile (since 2022).
- Teaching Assistant of Criminal Procedural Law, Universidad Católica de Chile (2018-2020).
- Teaching Assistant of Philosophical Foundations of Law and Natural Law, Universidad Católica de Chile (2015-2017).
RELATED AREAS
EDUCATION
- Law, Universidad Católica de Chile.
- Course on Municipal Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2021).
- Degree on Sanctioning Administrative Law, Universidad de Valladolid, España (2023).
- Degree on Sanctioning Administrative Law, Universidad Católica de Chile (2023).
ADMISSIONS
- Chile (2020).
LANGUAGES
- Spanish.
- English.
