Landowners

Advice for landowners offered an energy lease, option or easement

If an energy company has offered to lease your land, take an option on it or run a line across it, we review the offer with you and your lawyer or ours: what it is worth, which clauses to change and what to ask for before you sign.

Tell us what you were offered

When to call us

You have been offered a lease or a land option

For a solar, wind or battery storage project. It usually starts with a paid option to lease, which becomes a long-term lease if the project moves ahead.

From land option to lease

A line or a road needs to cross your land

If the line holds an electric concession, it can impose the easement, and if you cannot agree on the price, an appraisal commission sets the compensation (General Electricity Services Law, Arts. 14, 51 and 63).

You have been offered a buyout of your lease income

A lump sum today for the rent your lease will pay over the coming years.

How we assess a lease buyout

You have already signed

The tenant changes, assignment requests arrive, new works start or the rent indexation is miscalculated, and someone has to check each one against the contract.

What we deliver

Offer review

The present value of what you are offered, the clauses worth changing and a counterproposal to discuss with counsel.

Negotiation

We negotiate alongside you and counsel with the company making the offer, or prepare you to do it yourself.

Contract administration

Payments, indexation, assignments, access and termination, for the life of the contract.

We work for one party per engagement, and only that party pays us. Independence rules

What we check first in any offer

  • Option payments from signing, with the option ending if the project does not advance within the agreed term
  • Release of any land the project ends up not using
  • Decommissioning security, so the facilities are removed when the lease ends

Rent indexation, assignment of the contract and the other terms negotiated at each stage are covered in our guide, from land option to lease in Chile.

Frequently asked questions

What do you need to tell me whether you can help?
The type of offer, the region where the land is and whether you have the offer in writing. That tells us whether the case is a fit. If we go ahead, we sign a non-disclosure agreement and then review the offer, a current certificate of title and any contracts already on the property.
Do you work outside the Coquimbo Region?
Yes. We review offers and contracts for land anywhere in Chile, remotely, using the documents you send and certificates from the Conservador de Bienes Raíces, the local land registry. We do fieldwork, such as walking the property with a developer or meeting neighbors, in the Coquimbo Region.
Do you replace my lawyer?
No. Our work is commercial: the value of the offer and the terms worth negotiating. The legal review, the final drafting and the public deed stay with your Chilean counsel or an outside lawyer we work with, who is involved from the start. We do not give legal or tax advice.

Let us review the offer you received

With the type of offer and the region where the land is, we can tell you whether we can help.

Tell us what you were offered

We sign a non-disclosure agreement before we receive any documents.