Presentation.
Our professional services extend throughout Chile and abroad, with an efficient administration and case management system in all its stages, which allows us to satisfy the complex requirements of our clients in a coordinated manner.Goñi & Cia.
Goñi & Cia. Is a law firm formed by professionals with extensive experience in the national and international market providing comprehensive legal services and specialized in civil and commercial matters, mainly in matters related to insurance, civil liability, corporate law, and transport law including marine, air, and land.
The firm's office is located in the municipality of Providencia, Santiago, Chile.
Our Mission
Provide legal services of an integral nature in civil and commercial matters, with efficiency, quality and personalized attention, in order to achieve the best results in the solution of conflicts, needs and legal problems.
The team is composed by lawyers specialized in Chile and in the main academic centers of the world in the professional areas they develop, which allows Goñi & Cia To provide excellent services to its clients.
Services
Legal Recovery
We represent the interests of insurers and transport users in the exercise of legal recovery actions against maritime, air and land carriers.
CIVIL LIABILITY
We provide legal defense services in claims or indemnity actions for damages for civil liability, representing the interests of the defendants directly or to the insurance companies that cover said risks.
MARITIME LAW
The firm has specialized lawyers in this area of law, who provide clients with first level services in the following topics: maritime transport, multimodal transport, general breakdown, collision, boarding, pollution, salvage, towing, financing, ports, and terminals.
INSURANCE AND REINSURANCE
The professional team of Goñi & Cia. Has a wide experience in advising in the field of insurance and reinsurance law. Analysis of national and international regulations related to insurance, participation in arbitrations, claims through subrogation, preparation, and review of insurance policy conditions.
LITIGATION
We have professionals of recognized prestige in the field of judicial litigation, achieved thanks to the favorable solution of important lawsuits both nationally and internationally, constituting in addition the indispensable complement of its specialists.
CORPORATE LAW AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Corporate legal guidance based on adequate and timely customer service. For these purposes, we have lawyers who have actively participated in advising national and foreign clients, with a successful development in the businesses that have been entrusted.
OUR PROFESSIONALS
Carlos Goñi Garrido
PARTNER
Lawyer, Catholic University of Valparaíso,
Official Insurance Adjuster. During his professional performance, he has specialized in Commercial Law, in the area of Insurance Law, transport, and maritime trade. Founding partner of Goñi & Cía. Abogados, a firm with extensive experience in advisory services and lawsuits related to the recovery actions available to insurers, against third parties responsible for claims covered under different types of coverage. He has vast experience in the adjustment of port- hull and machinery policies, transportation, construction and assembly and civil liability. Author of several monographs and articles of the mentioned subjects and exhibitor in seminars both in Chile and abroad.
cgoni@goniabogados.cl
(+56 2) 2429 6900
Sebastián Matías Mardones Zúñiga
LAWYERDerecho, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
Lawyer, Adolfo Ibáñez University. Diploma in Insurance Law, University de Los Andes (2012) and Diploma in Labor Law at University of Chile. (2017)
Extensive experience in civil and commercial litigation, both in national and international arbitration, as in ordinary jurisdiction, in recovery actions for land, air and maritime transport, and defenses in lawsuits for civil liability policies. His practice has been focused on advising both national and foreign companies on labor, corporate, contractual, and insurance matters. In addition, it has been constantly required by the retail industry for judicial defense in matters of private security and on the law of protection of consumer rights.
He currently serves as Manager of the Legal Area & Civil Liability.
smardones@goniabogados.cl
(+56 2) 2429 6900
Moisés Gálvez Sanhueza
LAWYERLaw, Universidad Central.
His practice is focused on advising companies both in terms of laws on the protection of consumer rights and labor matters. During the year 2017, he served as an attorney in the National Consumer Service of the Metropolitan Region representing said institutions before the courts of justice.
He currently works as a lawyer in the area of labor law, and civil liability.
mgalvez@goniabogados.cl
(+56 2) 2429 6900
Daniel Lagunas Pizarro
LAWYERLaw, Bolivarian University.
He works in the litigation department and corporate insurance area. Wide experience in matters of maritime, land and air transport, and civil liability defenses. He has participated in important arbitration trials in the maritime transport sector, making cargo claims, requested orders for the detention and hold of ships and presented lawsuits for collisions of ships and pollution. In the litigation area, he also actively participates in civil liability defense trials. Likewise, he has formed experience in defense of lawsuits by Consumer Protection Law for retail companies. At the same time, in the corporate insurance area, he has developed a variety of experience in the analysis of claims related to maritime transport, cargo and ship hulls. He also has experience in the analysis of Civil Liability Policies, Tol Operator Liability (TOL) and SOAP, among others. In this area, he has had to interact with various agents of the English insurance market such as Lloyd's and London, Cunningham Lindsey of London, Sader + Diers Assecuranzvereau Ohg (Hamburg-Germany), among others.
dlagunas@goniabogados.cl
(+56 2) 2429 6900
Danilo Álvarez Medina
LICENSED IN LEGAL SCIENCESBachelor of Legal Sciences. Miguel de Cervantes University.
In charge of the managing of judicial processes, both in arbitration and before ordinary Courts of First Instance, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court. Extensive experience in conflict resolution in the matters of Consumer Protection Law, and in the development of judicial processes before the Local Police Courts, and in administrative headquarters both before Labor Inspectorate, or other public entities. He currently works in the area of recoveries and civil liability
dalvarez@goniabogados.cl
(+56 2) 2429 6900
Edith Muñoz Cabrales
Paralegal, Canon Legal Institute.
With vast experience representing the interests of transport insurers in general, in the exercise of legal recovery actions through extrajudicial means. With the technical capacity to get involved in claims from the beginning, working in parallel with adjusters and inspectors providing advice in the issuance of protests letters, expert reports, and others; with extensive experience in extrajudicial claims against shipping companies, freight forwarders, logistic operators, air carriers, land transporters, etc. In her performance, she also has competence in representing the interests of insurers with respect to claims in the matter of Mandatory Personal Accident Insurance (SOAP) and claims in favor of concessionaires.
emunoz@goniabogados.cl
(+56 2) 2429 6900
Felipe Merino García
Attorney At Law, Universidad de Chile (2018).
Diploma in Maritime Transport and Port Risk Insurance. (2019) Insurance School Chile.
Currently Part of the Areas of Tort, Litigation and Insurance law, he advises both national and foreign companies.
In addition, he has experience in the fields of Real Estate, Employement and Maritime law, in both Arbitration and ordinary courts.
Previously he worked as assistant in Alcalde & Co., Araya & Co and Duran & Co Law firms.
fmerino@goniabogados.cl
(+56 2) 2429 6900