Practice areas
J&S Cia. Abogados is a firm highly specialized in regulated sectors, corporate matters, dispute resolution, and international business.
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Our team has a solid background in administrative Law, both academic training and practical experience. Our services in this area are mainly:
- 1. Public law and economic regulation.
- 2. Administrative Procedures.
- 3. Contracts and public tenders.
- 4. Actions and resources.
- 5. Regulated public services.
WATER LAW
Water & Resources Law is one of the main strengths of our firm, focusing mainly on the following services:
- 1. Concession, recognition, and improvement of water use rights.
- 2. Exercise of rights, management, and distribution of water.
- 3. Administrative procedures before the General Directorate of Water and other sectoral bodies.
- 4. Dispute resolution regarding water use rights.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
J&S has more than ten years of experience in specialized litigation before the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court of Chile.
Our lawyers and investigators regularly work lawsuits and defense related to constitutional issues, such as:
- 1. Inapplicability Resources.
- 2. Protection Resources.
- 3. Legal Reports.
- 4. Informes en Derecho.
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
We specialize in complex commercial litigation before regular and high Courts and Arbitration (both domestic and international).
Our firm has a particularly outstanding practice in domestic and international arbitration dispute resolution. We have actively participated in numerous ad-hoc cases and under the rules of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CAM); the National Arbitration Centre (CNA); the Iberoamerican Arbitration Centre (CIAR); and the ICSID.
We advise our clients in the stages before a dispute, negotiations, developing strategies to avoid conflicts, preparing claims and possible defenses, and analyzing alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
CORPORATE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESSES
Jara & Schleyer provides legal advice on all corporate aspects, meeting daily needs and participating in sophisticated transactions and mergers and acquisitions through due diligencestructuring, and negotiation to draft and complete complex acquisition contracts, including stock and asset transactions, international mergers joint venture, agreements, takeovers, and exchange offers of listed companies.
We have represented sellers, buyers, majority and minority shareholders, the acquired company, both open and closed, and financiers in a wide variety of operations, including mergers, divisions, commercial associations, public and private offerings of acquisition of shares, corporate reorganizations, and other types of restructuring.
Our firm has practical knowledge in foreign investment, international agreements, banks, mining, financial regulation, international trade, and bankruptcy, among other areas of law; it also makes our national and international alliances available to seek strategic partners.
INFRASTRUCTURE
JyS tiene amplia experiencia en el desarrollo, financiamiento y ejecución de proyectos infraestructura energética (termo e hidroeléctrica, petróleo y gas, eólica e hidrógeno verde) minera, vial, hospitalaria, de telecomunicaciones, portuaria y aeroportuaria, de concesiones, industrial, habitacional, hotelera y de servicios.
MINERÍA
JyS cuenta con un equipo especializado en asesora compañías mineras pequeñas, medianas y grandes, tanto chilenas como extranjeras, que explotan todo tipo de minerales metálicos (cobre, molibdeno, plata, oro y otros) y no metálicos (nitratos y otros), en todas las etapas del proyecto y su implementación, pasando por el inicio de sus actividades y la plena operación, hasta el término de su vida útil con el cierre de faenas.
Asimismo, el estudio tiene una vasta experiencia en la negociación de acuerdos mineros de todo tipo, incluyendo convenios sofisticados y complejos, los relacionados al financiamiento de proyectos mineros, con un enfoque práctico y orientado al negocio.
