Rafael Vergara

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Partner and head of Carey y Cía.’s Natural Resources and Environment Group. His practice focuses on natural resources, mining, water rights, energy, environment, surface lands, project financing, corporate/commercial, municipal and planning, health and medicines. Mr. Vergara has been Professor of Mining Law at Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Los Andes, and has given special courses on mining law for judges and members of the Courts of Appeals. He is member of the legal committee of the National Mining Association, of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and of the informal association Abogados Mineros Latinoamericanos.Mr. Vergara studied law at the Universidad de Chile. He participated in the 1993 course of the Academy of American and International Law of the Southwestern Legal Foundation in Dallas, and in the 1997 Program of Instruction for Lawyers of the Harvard University Law School.