Lawyer and founding partner of WAGEMANN | Consulting

He has focused his professional career on providing consultancy services to large companies in engineering, construction and services contracts covering such areas as mining, power generation, manufacturing, public works and concessions. He holds both a broad legal knowledge and an encompassing technical outlook. This unique combination of skills has enabled him to participate in important infrastructure projects both in Chile and abroad.

With more than 25 years of experience, he has led multiple project planning, bidding, and contracting processes; risk analysis; contract and claims management; expert opinions, Dispute Boards, expert reports, and arbitrations. Over this last period of time, his professional focus has been oriented towards providing expert support and directing multidisciplinary teams with experience in the indicated areas.

Since 2018, he acts as the Chairman of the Construction Contracts Working Group at the Confederation of International Contractors’ Associations (CICA), an organization whose members represent 57% of the specific PIB of the Construction Industry. Its main task is to promote and propose improvements to construction contracts on a global scale, as well as the most widespread international construction standards, specially the FIDIC models, where he acted as Friendly Reviewer of the Green Book and is currently part of Working Group No. 9 on Subcontracts – and NEC Contracts.

Furthermore, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Latin American Association of Construction Law (ALDEC), of the Dispute Boards Committee of the Spanish Arbitration Center (CEA), of the Construction Law group of the International Bar Association (IBA) and of the Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF). Locally, he has been a founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the Chilean Society of Construction Law, National Counsel of the Chilean Chamber of Construction (CChC) and former president of the Client-Contractor Working Group of said organization, a position in which he served for seven years.

He has participated as co-author of two books in his field of specialty: “Contracting and Contract Management Strategy – Investment Projects” (2015, Engineers Institute of Chile) and “Construction Law: A theoretical and practical analysis” (2017, Editorial DEN). At the same time, he has written a number of columns and articles on technical/legal conflicts in infrastructure projects, published on domestic and foreign media.

In recent years, he has profiled himself as speaker at various international congresses on Construction Law in America and Europe.

In 2019 and 2020, Who´s Who Legal has distinguished him as one of the 12 Leading Individuals in Latin America in the Construction category. Additionally, he was selected by Latin Lawyer for two consecutive years: in 2019 to prepare, together with Elina Mereminskaya, the chapter on References for Construction in Chile; and in 2020 and 2021, to develop the Regulator edition of Construction in Chile, together with the firm’s partners Elina Mereminskaya and Fernando Landeros.

Within the academic field, he is a professor of the Engineer Faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, lecturing in the Construction Management Master’s Program (MAC), the Diploma Course in Contract Management and the Diploma Course in Advanced Management and Project Leadership, on subjects such as contract modalities for engineering and construction, contract management, alternate dispute resolution methods, and claim management.

He has also been a professor in the specialization course on Dispute Resolution Boards given by the Lima Chamber of Commerce and the Peruvian Society of Construction Law and in the Projekmanagement course of the Technical University of Dresden (Germany).