Jaime C. Irarrázabal
Av. El Golf 40, piso 20, Las Condes
Santiago 7550107
Chile
Legal counsel to foreign and domestic investors and financial institutions in industrial, mining and banking projects; Arbitrator in domestic and international cases; Legal counsel to the Ministry of Justice with regards to the enactment of the Law on International Commercial Arbitration (2004-5) and to changes of legislation on domestic arbitration (2009-); Chief Legal Counsel of the Government of Chile in the negotiations of the FTA with Canada (1996-1997) and The United States of America (2001-2003) and in the Political and Economic Association Agreement between Chile and the European Union (2001-2002); Chief Legal Counsel of the Government of Chile in the negotiations of the accession of Chile to NAFTA (1995); Legal counsel to the Ministry of Finance in relation to changes to the Foreign Investment Law (1985- 6) and to the legislation on exploration and exploitation of oil (1985 and 1987); Legal counsel (together with other members of the law firm) to the International Banking Community in the restructuring of the Chilean external debt (1982) and in loans to the Chilean Government (1982-1985)
Member of the list of arbitrators of ICSID, appointed by the Chilean Government (1999-); Member of the list of arbitrators of the Board of Arbitration and Mediation of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (1998-) the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce (1999-) the Centre of Commercial Arbitration of the Argentinean Chamber of Commerce (2008-) and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution of the American Arbitration Association (2007-); Member of the Board of the Arbitration and Mediation Centre of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (1998-); Member of the Latin American Arbitration Group of the International Court of Arbitration of the ICC, Paris (2003-)
Sole arbitrator in several domestic arbitrations; Arbitrator in ICC case Ives Saint Laurent vs. NYA Perfumes; Arbitrator in ICSID Case ARB/03/06 (MCI vs. Rep. Ecuador) and in ICSID Case ARB/05/11 (Asset Recovery Trust vs. Rep. Argentina)
“Definition of Taxable Income” (1962); “The Contract-Law.” Fourth Meeting of Chilean Public Law, (Editorial Jurídica de Chile, 1966); “Institutional Aspects of the European Economic Committee” (Editorial Jurídica de Chile, 1969); “The Income Tax Law” (text for active teaching in the School of Law, together with other authors, 1969); “Territorial effects of the Tax Law” (Review of Legal Studies. School of Law, Catholic University, Volume I N°2, 1972); “Tax, Customs, Foreign Exchange, and Antitrust aspects of contracts for technological purposes” in the Manual on Technology Agreements published by The Inter-University Center for Development, 1989; Materials for a Tax Course. School of Law, University of Chile. (1989-1992); “Tax aspects of Intellectual Property under Chilean law,” VII International Congress on the Protection of Intellectual
Property, 1992; “The Legal System in Chile: Stability and Progress.”Euromoney Publications, 1993; “Chile welcome for Joint Ventures,”International Corporate Law, November, 1993; “Foreign Investments under
NAFTA; implications for Chile,” Revue Generale de Droit, Université d'Ottawa, September 1994; “The Legal Profession in areas of economic integration,” XIII Congress of U.I.B.A., Colegio de Abogados de Chile,
September 1998; “Mechanism for Settlement of Disputes regarding investments in the Chile-Canada Free Trade Agreement,” Journal of the Chilean Bar Association, November 1999; “Arbitration in Chile,” Latin Lawyer Review 2001; “Legal Services in Free Trade Agreements,” Journal of the Chilean Bar Association, July 2003; “Dispute Resolution between States in the FTA with the U.S.A. and in the Association Agreement with the European Union” Law Review N°9 of Finis Terrae University, Santiago, 2005; “Arbitration in Free Trade Agreements signed by Chile,” in “Studies on Arbitration” (Editorial Jurídica de Chile, 2006); “Arbitration in Chile 2008,” Latin Lawyer Magazine (co-author); “Arbitration in Chile”, Global Arbitration Review 2009 (co-author).