
Sebastián Fuentes
Associatesfuentes@carey.cl
+56 2 2928 2213
His practice focuses on arbitration and civil and commercial litigation as well as insolvency proceedings, including reorganization and liquidation.
REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
- A photovoltaic energy project multinational on its succesfull defense in a lawsuit to determine damages for USD6 million for breach of contract against it.
- An electric project developer company on an arbitration regarding the interpretation of a Power Purchase Agreement, whose collection and damages amounted to USD2.4 million.
- Several companies on construction litigation and claims related to projects of diverse kind.
- Cuerpo de Voluntarios de los Botes Salvavidas de Valparaíso on a Pro Bono case for the collection of unpaid rents by a lessee.
- Several national and foreign companies on filing of proof of claims in reorganization and liquidation proceedings under insolvency law.
- A mining services company on a judicial proceeding for the invalidation of a reorganization agreement and on the negotiation for the payment of USD1.5 million by the debtor.
ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Teaching Assistant of Procedural Law, Universidad Diego Portales (since 2017).
- Teaching Assistant of Commercial Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2015).
- Teaching Assistant of Criminal and Criminal Procedural Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2014-2015).
- Teaching Assistant of Procedural Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2013).
- Member of the Chilean Bar Association.
PUBLICATIONS
- Co-author of the article "Preventive Imprisonment as Anticipatory Protection in the Chilean Criminal Procedural Code", Derecho Procesal Contemporáneo Magazine, Instituto Colombiano de Derecho Procesal (2016).
EDUCATION
- Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
- Degree in Insolvency Law, Universidad Católica de Chile (2021).
- R.P. Eduardo Lobos SS.CC Award, given to the best student of his class (2015).
- Professor Raul Le Roy Award, given to the best student of his class (2012 and 2014).
- Enrique Wiegand Frödden Award, given to the student with the highest grades in his class (2010-2014).
- Tito Solari Peralta Award, given to the student with the highest grades in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law (2010-2014).
- Osvaldo Oelckers Camus Award, given to the student with the highest grades in Constitutional Law and Administrative Law (2010-2014).
ADMISSIONS
- Chile (2016).
LANGUAGES
- Spanish.
- English.