Our team in environmental law and sustainable development offers specialized legal advice on environmental matters for the prevention or resolution of legal conflicts related to environmental policy, legislation and regulation. This includes assistance in the process of assessing, authorizing, licensing, and monitoring activities that have a significant impact on the environment.
- Defence in administrative sanctioning proceedings: Accompaniment, advice and representation in administrative proceedings of a sanctioning nature initiated by environmental authorities, exercising the defence of our clients according to the legal strategy that in each case is most convenient for their interests. Our services include the defense and opposition regarding preventive measures that the environmental authorities may impose against you.
- Environmental litigation: Based on the design of legal-environmental strategies, we advise clients in the defense or contentious actions of knowledge of Judges, Courts and High Courts where the legality of licenses, permits and sanctioning processes is discussed, as well as declarations of damage, pollution and/or environmental liabilities.
- Constitutional and legal actions of an environmental nature: We advise and represent clients when they must appear before judicial instances on the occasion of the presentation of strategic litigation and/or constitutional actions seeking environmental protection hand in hand with legal certainty and compliance with the current environmental legal regime.
- Criminal Cases: Based on the synergy with the firm’s criminal team, we provide comprehensive accompaniment to the client for the correct and due attention to criminal complaints that are made or the prevention of them.
- Regulatory issues and risk identification: Analysis of applicable legal provisions or draft regulations in order to measure the impact on the development of Clients’ activities and the risks associated with it with regard to the sustainability of the business.
- Management and accompaniment in complex environmental cases (crisis management): Accompaniment to the Client in the evaluation of cases, the determination of strategies and the monitoring of their implementation in order to overcome the obstacles, restrictions and challenges that arise from complex cases.
- Analysis of the legal viability of innovative solutions in the field of water, emissions and waste: Taking into account the challenges in relation to the management of natural resources and waste in the development of businesses, innovative solutions are generated every day to face them, with respect to which we carry out a comparison with current regulations. identifying the contradictions and gaps that they present to determine the roadmap in their implementation.
- Environmental legal support in the structuring of projects and investment processes: Analysis of the scope of the projects in accordance with current regulations, as well as the identification of the present and future factual and regulatory socio-environmental contexts that may impact the project, so that during the structuring process a comprehensive and efficient risk analysis is carried out that allows a more solid environmental legal structure for the project.
- Strategy in the management of environmental contingencies: Given the implications of contingencies in environmental matters and the possible legal effects of an administrative, civil and criminal nature, the advice includes the analysis of the context in which the contingency occurred and the construction of the strategy for its communication, management and closure.
- Strategy and accompaniment in the remediation processes of contaminated sites: Advice on the structuring of strategies to deal with remediation processes before third parties and the environmental authority based on the requirements set forth in current regulations.
- Application for and obtaining environmental licences, permits, concessions and authorisations: Legal advice on the processing of Environmental Impact Studies and Statements. Advice on the processing of applications for permits, concessions and licenses of an environmental nature, based on the design of strategies that allow optimal results based on experience.
- Training in environmental legislation: To train on the different aspects of environmental order and environmental legal management in organizations.
- Comprehensive environmental legal advice: Permanent advice on all aspects that arise in relation to the environmental legal management of an organization or business.
- Definitions of environmental legal strategy: Design of strategies that allow facing the challenges presented by the application of environmental legislation to businesses, understanding the current socio-environmental contexts.
