Andrés Saez

Partner

“Andrés Sáez has in-depth experience in the public sector and knows well where to put the necessary emphasis in key messages.” CHAMBERS & PARTNERS 2024

“Andrés Sáez is an excellent professional who is very pleasant and highly qualified, and who goes beyond expectations to provide a good-quality service.” CHAMBERS & PARTNERS 2023

Andrés is one of the founding partners of MSyA Attorneys, a specialist regarding the environmental assessment of projects, sectoral authorizations, highly complex dispute resolutions, as well as inspection and sanctioning procedures.

Before founding MSyA, he actively participated in the design and implementation of environmental institutions as the Regional Director of CONAMA in Antofagasta (National Environmental Commission) and later he was Head of the Legal Division of the Environmental Assessment Agency. In this last job he led the Commission’s defense in emblematic cases before the Courts, together with the drafting of the New Regulation for the Environmental Impact Assessment System. In the private sector, his participation was remarkable at Philippi, Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU and Uría.

Education

» Law, Faculty of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

» MSc in Environmental Policy & Regulation, London School of Economics & Political Science.

» LLM in Public Law, University College London.

Acknowledgments

» Ranked “Band 3”, Environment, Chambers Latin America in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.

» Ranked as “Next Generation Partner”, Legal 500 in 2022 and 2023.

» Named as “Up and Coming”, Environment, Chambers Latin America, 2018, 2019 and 2020.

» Named as “Associate to Watch”, Environment, Chambers Latin America 2010.

» Chevening Foreign and Commonwealth Office scholarship holder, UK (2012-2013).

» Conicyt Becas Chile Scholarship holder (2013-2014).

Memberships & Activities

» Professor of Environmental Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso and Universidad Finis Terrae.

» Chilean Bar Association

Publications

» The nature, rules and proportionality as limits to the imposition of conditions in the environmental impact assessment. Environmental Law Magazine of the University of Chile, October 2017.
https://revistaderechoambiental.uchile.cl/index.php/RDA/article/view/50430

» “Compensation for the Siting of Locally Unwanted Facilities: Considerations for a Discussion”
http://www.revistajusticiaambiental.cl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/art_06_07.pdf

» “Jurisprudential Trends in Energy Projects: Balance and Projections” in Energy Act of Law 2012.
http://derechoadministrativoeconomico.uc.cl/images/noticias/ADENER/adener%20n%202%20-%20rodrigo%20benitez%20ureta%20y%20andrs%20sez%20astaburuaga.pdf

Languages

Spanish, English