Verónica
Cuadra

Verónica has been an associate of our firm since 2014 in the Regulatory and Environmental Law group, and a senior associate since 2019 in the same practice area.

In addition to have advised several Chilean and foreign clients in due diligence processes, she has focused her practice in various areas of public law, including administrative, public procurement, heath, environmental, water, energy and constitutional law.

She permanently advises clients in the development of projects in various regulated sectors including non-conventional renewable energies, power transmission, mining, forestry, aquaculture, real estate projects, among others. This includes advising on obtaining sectoral permits and authorizations, environmental impact assessment, sanctioning procedures before various authorities and challenges in public procurement matters.

Verónica has actively advised on various aspects derived from Law 20,920 on the extended producer responsibility (REP Law), including the implementation of waste management systems.

She has also advised on the drafting and negotiation of contracts of various kinds, especially focused on energy related contracts.

She has followed up the last two constitutional processes in Chile and she also is part of the Senior Associates Committee and of the interdisciplinary work team of the ESG and Compliance area.

Veronica participated in the creation of the podcast All You Need is Law in 2022 and continues to collaborate in the creation of content.

• Advice to national and foreign clients in the creation of waste management systems of packaging and tires.
• Advising an important multinational company on regulatory and environmental aspects in the development of its data center projects in Chile.
• Advice to several clients in the negotiation and drafting of energy supply contracts, including important manufacturing, retail, forestry and transportation companies.
• Due diligence advice to several international companies in mergers and acquisitions processes in regulated industries, including energy, aquaculture, forestry, hospitality, cabotage, transportation, sanitary, mining, fuels, among others.
• Advises major transnational mining company in environmental and regulatory matters.

• Diploma in Administrative Sanctioning Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in association with the University of Valladolid (Spain), 2023.
• Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Cambridge, England, 2019. Cambridge Trust Scholarship.
• Diploma in Electricity Market Regulation, Universidad de Chile, 2016.
• Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Law School, summa cum laude, 2013. 
• Academic Excellence Award 2010, Best Civil Law Student Scholarship 2009 and Best Law School Admission Score 2006.

• Member of the Energy Committee of the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Chile, 2024.
• Member of the Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI), Cambridge, England, 20218-2019.
• Teaching Assistant at the Civil Law department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2015-2018.
• Research assistant at the Administrative Economic Law Program (PDAE) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2013-2014.
• Academic Exchange at the Università degli Studi di Bologna, Bologna, Italy, 2011-2012.
• II Seminar on International Roman Law, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, 2011.