Region: Chile

A private equity-managed mobile operator is reportedly preparing to bring an investment treaty claim against Chile concerning a dispute over a delayed project to roll out a 5G network. 

24 November 2023

A New York state court has vacated an injunction that prevented the owner of a Chilean hydropower project from drawing on a US$90 million letter of credit pending an ICC arbitration with Austrian construction group Strabag.

24 November 2023

A Chilean court has upheld a US$64 million award won by Chinese state-owned energy group Sinopec against Ecuador’s national oil company, finding it did not violate national public policy.

18 May 2023

A Canadian fishery has threatened Chile with an ICSID claim after it was sanctioned by a local environmental agency for overproducing salmon – while several treaty disputes loom for the state over its recent health insurance reforms.

09 February 2023

A Chilean-Taiwanese mining venture is reportedly considering a US$2.5 billion treaty claim against Chile, alleging that plans to give a state-owned entity exclusive rights over a lithium deposit amount to an unlawful expropriation.

25 November 2022

A Toronto-listed mining company says it has defeated a US$30 million royalties claim relating to a rare earth project in Chile.

03 November 2022

Francisco Grob has left ICSID after seven years as legal counsel to join Jana & Gil Dispute Resolution, the Chilean boutique recently launched by former members of Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana.

03 August 2022

A Spanish court has frozen assets of Chile’s national copper company after ruling that the state should pay US$552 million to satisfy a 14-year old ICSID award relating to the seizure of a newspaper during the Pinochet era.

09 June 2022

Leading Chilean practitioner Andrés Jana and the rest of the disputes team at GAR 100 firm Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana in Santiago are breaking away to launch a new boutique.

21 March 2022

A subsidiary of US power group AES has won an ICC award worth US$186 million plus interest in a dispute with a construction consortium over a cancelled contract to build one of Chile’s largest hydroelectric projects.

08 November 2021