Alberto Cardemil is a partner of Carey y Cía.’s Natural Resources, Energy and Environment Group. His professional practice is focused on water law, natural resources transactions and litigation, corporate law and commercial law. He worked at Projects and Corporate Groups of the Australian law firm Freehills, in Melbourne and Perth, Australia, during 2005 and 2006. He served as an Assistant Professor of Civil Law at the law schools of the Universidad Católica de Chile (1998) and the Universidad del Desarrollo (1999-2002). He is a member of the Chilean Bar Association and the Chilean Association of Water Utilities Sector Lawyers. He has been lecturer in seminars and conferences in the field of natural resources law and the author of several articles in specialized journals and financial publications. In 2005, Latin Lawyer, a business law magazine for Latin America, named him as a leading Chilean lawyer in the area of water law. Having studied law at the Universidad Católica de Chile, he was admitted to the Bar in 2000. He obtained a Master in Laws (L.L.M.) from The University of Sydney, Australia in 2005. He is fluent in Spanish and English.