Balmaceda Jimeno, Nicolás
partner
Mail: nbalmaceda@bye.cl
Phone: +562 23788912
Nicolás, a partner at Barros & Errázuriz, has 25 years of professional experience developing the areas of infrastructure, banking and finance, and mergers and acquisitions of the firm. Through industrial, infrastructure, energy, real estate and new technology projects, Nicolás has represented developers, banks and financial institutions, public works concessionaires, construction and engineering companies, foreign investors, sponsors and shareholders in general, both in Chile as abroad.
Education
- Law School, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Degree awarded with two votes of distinction (1996)
- Energy and Environment (LL.M.), Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans, United States (2000)
Professional Experience
- Partner, Barros & Errázuriz (2006)
- Foreign Associate, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene and MacRae LLP, New York, United States (2000-2001)
Academic Activities
- Professor, Money Credit, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (2005-2006)
- Professor, Financial Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile (2010-2014)
- Investigator, University of California School of Law, Los Angeles, United States (2014)
- Professor, Legal Aspects of the Company, Universidad de los Andes, Chile (2007 – 2020)
Languages
- Spanish
- English
Memberships
- Member of the Chilean Bar Association
- Member of the Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce
- Member of the Legal Committee of the Asociación de Concesionarios de Obras de Infraestructura Pública AG (Copsa), Chilean union entity that groups most of the holders of public works concession contracts tendered by the Ministry of Public Works
Final Acknowledgments
- Leading Individual, Legal 500 2024, Chile, Banking & Finance
- Leading Individual, Legal 500 2024 Chile, Projects
- Band 4, Chambers Latin America 2024, Chile, Projects
- Highly Regarded, IFLR 1000 2023, Chile, Banking & Finance
- Highly Regarded, IFLR 1000 2023, Chile, Project Finance
- LACCA Approved 2023, Banking & Finance
- Client Choice 2014, Best Chilean Lawyer in the Construction Area
- Finance Monthly, 2019, Best Chilean Lawyer in the Construction Area
Publications
- Essays on Crime: Perspectives of New Professionals; Various Authors, Edited by Fundación Paz Ciudadana (1997)
- Judicial Assistance Corporations and On-Duty Lawyers: Breach of a Constitutional Guarantee?; Chilean Journal of Law, Vol. 27 No. 4, Pontifical Catholic University (2000)
- Environmental Mediation in the United States of America: Doctrine and Practice; Journal of Economic Administrative Law, Vol. 3 No. 1, Pontifical Catholic University (2001)
- Urban Afforestation Through Environmental Compensation, co-author; Center for Public Polices, Year 6 No. 43, Pontifical Catholic University (2011)
