Álvaro Jara


Lawyer at WAGEMANN Lawyers & Engineers.

As a member of the WAGEMANN team, he provides legal counsel, support services and strategic contractual management regarding engineering and construction projects, in Chile and Central America.

These projects include the construction of infrastructure for copper mines both in the initial phase as well as during operation, the execution of wind farms, private building projects and the improvement of electrical substations. In addition, his experience includes the energy, public concessions and industrial infrastructure sectors.

He has also participated in the preparation and analysis of technical-contractual diagnostic reports, as well as claims and requests for compensation within the framework of infrastructure projects, such as the construction of highways in Chile and the building of hospitals in Central America, among others.

He has also served as a trial lawyer on behalf of national and international companies in construction arbitrations conducted before the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CAM Santiago). He also served as a secretary to an arbitral tribunal in arbitrations administered by CAM Santiago.

In 2020, together with WAGEMANN partner Elina Mereminskaya, he co-authored the paper “Should the Law Foresee the Unforeseeable? The Unpredictable Trends in Chile in the Face of the Covid-19 Pandemic” (or in its original title Should the Law Foresee the Unforeseeable? The Unforeseeable Trends in Chile in View of the Covid-19 Pandemic), published in September 2020 by Construction Law International, the journal of the International Bar Association (IBA), which addressed the challenges of the construction sector in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Attorney-at-Law, University of Chile.
  • Languages: Spanish, English and basic Italian.