The firm has been consistently improving its performance and has now earned a spot among the top ten firms with more recognition at the local level. This year, the number of awards received has increased by nearly 60% compared to the previous edition, both as a firm and at an individual level.

Top legal rankings publisher Chambers recommends in its latest edition ten lawyers and seven practice areas of Dentons Chile, according to its annual research on the quality of legal work performed by the firm and the opinion of our clients, whom we thank for the time dedicated to responding.

The practice areas entering this year are Energy and Natural Resources: Mining, Intellectual Property, Environment, and Dispute Resolution: Litigation. At an individual level, Mercedes Londoño in Intellectual Property, Rodrigo Sanhueza in Labour & Employment, and Marcelo Alarcón in Litigation entered the ranking.

Our detailed results and what our clients say about us

Individual level

• Felipe Rencoret, Banking & Finance

  “Felipe Rencoret is a consummate professional and highly attentive and responsive to our needs.”

• Marcelo Alarcón, Dispute Resolution: Litigation
  

  “Marcelo Alarcón is a responsible professional with a broad vision and a great handling of conflicts and litigation.”

• Gonzalo Nieto, Energy and Natural Resources: Mining
  

  “Gonzalo Nieto has great business acumen and is able to identify the most efficient strategies, which allows the client to benefit greatly from his advice.”

• José Ignacio Morán, Environment: Water Law
  

  “José Ignacio Morán is an excellent professional and very knowledgeable about all aspects related to environmental issues, water and its implications in other matters.”

• Carolina del Río, Intellectual Property
  

  “Carolina del Rio best exemplifies the qualities you want in external counsel: she has strong expertise and wonderful experience as well as awareness of the industry and provides high levels of service and sophisticated legal advice.”

• Mercedes Londoño, Intellectual Property
  

  “She is fast, efficient, effective, strategic and pleasant to deal with.” “Mercedes Londoño is exceptional in every sense of the word.”

• Rodrigo Sanhueza, Labour & Employment
  

  “His vast knowledge, research abilities, objectivity and customer-oriented personality are outstanding.” “Rodrigo Sanhueza is a first-rate local labour law adviser.”

• José Manuel Larraín, Projects
  

  “José Manuel Larraín's advice is crucial for the development of strategies, and how these are used in our business.”

• Ignacio Vargas, Projects
  

  “Ignacio Vargas is agile and responds to our needs with extensive knowledge and involvement.”

• Juan Pablo Orellana, Tax
  

  “As well as being very proactive and creative, he is also rigorous, prudent and compliant with the legislation.” “Juan Pablo Orellana is highly experienced and has an extensive knowledge of Chilean tax matters.”

Firm-level

• Banking and Finance
  

  “Dentons Chile offers both competitive prices in the market and all the practice areas needed to handle banking and finance matters thoroughly.”

• Dispute Resolution: Litigation
  

  “Dentons Chile has technical and well-rounded expertise and knowledge of our company. They are highly responsible people who are great to work withand are committed to the client.”

• Energy and Natural Resources: Mining
  

  “Dentons Chile have a highly specialised team who display extensive knowledge of law. Their experience allows them to deliver advice that is always focused on the real needs of the client.”

• Environment
  

  “Dentons Chile have extensive environmental regulatory knowledge. They have been very proactive in giving us legal and strategic solutions that facilitate the development of our projects within the environmental regulations.”

• Intellectual Property
  

  “Dentons Chile provides creative and innovative advice on the challenges we present to them. They have vast experience in intellectual property, having successfully dealt with complex matters, and thus offer us insights that we can apply to our specific case.”

• Labour & Employment
  

  “Dentons Chile is always ahead of the game, keeping the client informed of any legal measures in the labour field that might affect them in the future. We heavily rely on the firm to be aware of new regulations, laws or projects as early as possible.”

• Projects
  

  “Dentons Chile has a high level of knowledge and management of matters specific to the construction and infrastructure arena. They are agile, timely and proactive, and understand the complexities of the business and what is at stake in each of the contingencies.”

View the full results here.