Chile’s Morales & Besa names new director

Paloma Infante has been named director of the regulatory and environmental law practice at Chilean law firm Morales & Besa. 

With more than 15 years’ experience in environmental law, Infante (pictured) is a law graduate from the Universidad de Chile and holds an LLM in environmental law from New York University,

She focuses on environmental and mining, water and energy regulations, including the environmental evaluation of projects, litigation, negotiation with communities, land disputes, and regulatory frameworks for flora and fauna, fishing and aquaculture, among other themes. 

Before joining Morales & Besa in 2018, she was director of the legal division at Chile’s Environment Ministry, and head of the ministry’s environmental regulation office.

Prior to that she worked for the country’s environmental regulatory body, the Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente, where she worked on the implementation of the country’s environmental regulatory framework.

She is a member of the environmental and sustainability committee of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and she is a professor in environmental law at the  Universidad del Desarrollo.  

“The appointment of Paloma is in response to her outstanding professional career that, internally, has resulted in the restructuring and consolidation of our environmental and regulatory practice group, and in a powerful feminine leadership, and externally, in the expansion of our spectrum of clients and industries,” Guillermo Morales, founding partner at Morales & Besa, said.