Karina is a Partner at H&S Abogados. She has vast experience in Constitutional, Administrative and Environmental Law, legislative affairs, and regulated industries, particularly transportation, telecommunications, data protection, healthcare as well as the business activities of State-owned enterprises and companies.
Karina has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors. In the public sector, she has advised a former President of Chile, members of Congress, the Comptroller General of the Republic, the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications, and the National Environmental Commission, the predecessor of the current Ministry of the Environment.
In the private sector, she worked for twelve years in the Public and Regulatory Law Department at Claro y Cía (2013-2025). There, she led and developed strategies for the legal defence of clients in administrative sanctioning proceedings, as well as for the filing of administrative appeals, claims against unlawful acts by public authorities, constitutional rights protection actions (recursos de protección), and proceedings before the Constitutional Court. She also advised domestic and international clients on entering and performing agreements with State bodies, as well as on the obtainment of permits, authorizations and concessions.
Experience
Claro y Cía. (2013-2025).
Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic (2010-2013).
Legislative Legal Division, Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency (2006-2010).
Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (2002-2006).
National Environmental Commission, Santiago Metropolitan Region (1997-2002).
Education
Postgraduate Certificate in Constitutional Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 2002.
J.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1995.
Awards and Distinctions
Recipient of the José Torconal and Pedro N. Montenegro Awards, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Law, granted to the best student of her class, 1996.
Recipient of the Fernando Rozas Award, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Law, granted to the best student of her class in Civil Law, 1996.
Recipient of the Award for Academic Excellence, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, School of Law, granted to the student with the highest GPA in her class, 1994 and 1995.
Languages
Spanish.