Maximiliano Barrenechea

Associate

mbarrenechea@carey.cl
+56 2 2928 2205



His professional practice focuses on natural resources, mining law, environmental law and project development.


REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Codelco on an association agreement with Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (SQM), which regulates all the stages, rights, obligations and terms and conditions to optimize, modernize, and enhance the lithium production in the Atacama salt flat (Salar de Atacama) between the years 2025 and 2060.
  • Pan American Silver on a mining due diligence related to an offer for the acquisition of the mining company, Yamana Gold, which includes the El Peñón and Minera Florida projects for USD4.8 billion.
  • CAP on an investment of approx. USD32 million to acquire 20% of REE Uno, a Chilean company owned by Aclara Resources, which is developing a project to exploit rare earths from ionic sands in the Bio Bío Region.
  • Codelco on the implementation of its lithium project in the Maricunga salt flat, specifically regarding potential partners in the area and surface easements. This is the second most important and largest lithium project in Chile, included in the National Strategy of Lithium.
  • Hapag-Lloyd, a German listed company and global leader in container shipping, on the acquisition, for approx. USD1 billion, of the port terminals and inland logistics business of SAAM, a Chilean listed multinational company that provides foreign trade services. Hapag-Lloyd acquired the entire operation of the port terminals business of SAAM, which includes 10 terminals in six countries in the Americas, and of the inland logistics business of SAAM.
  • Marimaca on corporate, regulatory, environmental, mining and main supplies matters for the implementation of its copper project Marimaca in the Antofagasta region.
  • Codelco on an agreement with Lithium Power International (LPI), a company listed in the Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) to acquire 100% of the share capital of LPI by way of a Scheme of Arrangement. LPI owns, through its subsidiary Minera Salar Blanco, the "Blanco Project", adyacent to Codelco's mining tenements in the Maricunga Salt Flat.

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

  • Teaching Assistant of Mining Law, Universidad de Chile (since 2018).
  • Law Clerk, BHP Chile (2017-2021).

PUBLICATIONS

  • Co-author of "Positive non-financial benefit in B Corporations: Tax regime of associated disbursements, from the perspective of income taxation", Undergraduate Thesis, Universidad de Chile (2022).

EDUCATION

  • Law, Universidad de Chile.
  • Academic Excellence Award, granted to the best student of his generation in Labor Law and Social Security, Universidad de Chile (2020).

ADMISSIONS

  • Chile (2023).

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish.
  • English.

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