RONY ZIMERMAN JOINS LEMBEYE ABOGADOS AS A NEW PARTNER

Rony Zimerman, who until late March was a partner of the firm Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana is the Lembeye Abogados’ new partner, having arrived to develop the firm’s Natural Resources and Mining practice. After 12 years as a partner of BMAJ, Rony Zimerman joins Jorge Lembeye – also a former partner of Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana – Daniel Praetorius – a former partner of Bofill Escobar Silva – and Nicolás Espina, who also comes from Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana.

Zimerman has dual qualifications as an attorney in Canada and Chile, meaning that he has a highly international practice, representing major multinationals in their natural resources investments and Canadian mining companies in their operations in Chile. He obtained his BA from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and studied law at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He graduated in Canada and then did the same in Chile, after deciding to stay in the country. During his career he has dedicated himself to advising national and foreign investors in issues related to natural resources, mining, and energy, in addition to corporate affairs, mergers and acquisitions, and financing in diverse sectors such as health, real estate and retail.

Rony Zimerman previously worked in the corporate and securities area of Lang Michener (McMillan) in Vancouver, Canada. He is an active member of the American Bar Association (ABA), where he presided over the Energy and Natural Resources Committee (International Section), the Prospectors and Developers Association of  Canada and the International Bar Association’s (IBA) the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure section. He has also been a guest professor at the Business Law LL.M program at the University of Chile and in courses on international contracting at the Catholic University Law School.

Jorge Lembeye explains that he and Rony Zimerman are connected by a long-standing friendship and professional relationship: «Rony and I were partners at BMAJ, so being partners again is something that is personally and professionally satisfying to me. Lembeye Abogados continues its development and growth plan with Rony’s arrival. «Our energy practice has always been very active; enhancing and developing the Energy and Natural Resources area was the next step in our development,» he says. «Rony’s arrival of Rony strengthens our team and makes our services more complete in an increasingly complex world. We are very happy that Rony has chosen Lembeye Abogados to continue his distinguished career.»

For his part, Rony Zimerman says, «I am extremely excited to get together with Jorge Lembeye, Daniel Praetorius and Nicolás Espina. I worked with all three of them a lot at BMAJ and share the standard of excellence and quality legal advice with them. I am particularly excited to join this distinguished team and develop a new practice area while simultaneously deepening existing ones, all within the context of a structure whose scale allows constant and direct contact both with colleagues as well as clients at the firm.»