Josefina Escobar

Partner, specialising in civil, commercial and regulatory litigation, expert in arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. Judge arbitrator.

• Professional experience:
  2025 - Judge Arbitrator of the Santiago Court of Appeals
  2025 - Judge Arbitrator, Honourable Court of Appeal of San Miguel
  2017 to date / Ovalle Legal Advisors
  2015 - 2017 / Ministry General Secretariat of the Government
  2007 - 2015 / Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana Abogados
  2006 - 2007 / Bofill Lawyers
  2003 - 2006 / Carey & Co.
  
• Trajectory:
  - Expert in civil, commercial and regulatory litigation.
  - He participated in the design and implementation, on behalf of Corfo, of the strategy for the civil recovery of money embezzled from the Treasury by the Inverlink Group.
  - Representation of Codelco in contractual disputes with electricity supply companies for Ventanas divisions.
  - Representation of sectoral companies such as ENAP, mining and electricity companies in various contractual disputes relating to electricity supply, environmental disputes and breaches of construction contracts, among others.
• Education:
  - LLM, New York University, 2012
  - Diplomado Nuevos Problemas de Responsabilidad Civil en el Derecho Chileno (New Problems of Civil Liability in Chilean Law), maximum qualification, 2008.
  - Bachelor's Degree in Law and Social Sciences, University of Chile. Graduated in 2006
• Academic activities: 
  - Chilecompras accreditation in public procurement procedures for Heads of Service.
  - Assistant at the Department of Private Law, University of Chile.
  - Cycle of assistantships "Legal Writing" course, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
  - Regular assistant professor of Constitutional Law I and II, Universidad de Chile.
• Memberships:  Member of the Chilean Bar Association.
• Languages: Spanish and English