Prieto Abogados appoints two new partners
Isabel Margarita Wolleter and Agustín Martorell join Prieto Abogados as partners as of January 2022
Chilean law firm, Prieto Abogados, has announced the appointment of Isabel Margarita Wolleter and Agustín Martorell as partners of the firm as of January 2022, in charge of the areas of Capital Markets and Environment, Mining and Public Law, respectively.
Benjamin Grebe, chairman of the board of directors of Prieto, stated: “We are very happy to start 2022 with these two new Partners in key areas for our clients. Isabel and Agustín are leading lawyers recognized by international rankings in their respective areas.”
Isabel Margarita Wolleter (pictured left) has more than 15 years of experience in the Capital Markets area and focuses her practice on advising domestic and foreign clients on debt issuance processes, IPOs, takeover bids and securities regulation, as well as actively participating in corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions. She actively participates in bond placement processes, working together with the main investment banks in the country. In 2018 she was appointed head of Capital Markets of the firm and since then she leads the area together with partner Patricio Prieto Larrain. She holds a Law Degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and worked as a foreign lawyer at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York.
Agustín Martorell (pictured right) has led the Environment and Public Law practice since joining Prieto in 2018 and has been a director since 2021. He advises domestic and foreign clients in the development of projects in all their phases, representing companies before public bodies in obtaining permits, administrative sanctioning procedures, trials in environmental courts and environmental assessment of projects, among others. In addition, he has extensive experience in public law matters and industries such as mining, energy, fisheries, aquaculture and infrastructure. Agustín has actively participated in advising on environmental matters and in environmental trials in the three environmental courts of the country, advising different companies in sanctioning procedures followed by the Superintendence of the Environment. He holds a Law Degree from the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, a Master’s Degree in Energy and Natural Resources Law from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Diploma in Economic Public Law from the University of Chile. In the academic field he currently teaches Natural Resources Regulation at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Environmental Law at the Universidad Santo Tomás.
