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With a keen eye on climate change issues, we help clients across all sectors mitigate risks and comply with environmental regulations.

Our innovative legal solutions are designed to minimize risks and ensure compliance with environmental regulations while still identifying the best business opportunities. The practice’s multidisciplinary team anticipates clients’ needs, supporting them via a range of strategic approaches.

Chambers Review

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Environment - Brazil

2
Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Mattos Filho's environment law practice is emerging with strength, powered by the firm's superb full-service capabilities and remarkable talent attraction force. The department is well equipped to advise on high-level contentious mandates. It has built solid experience handling matters arising out of soil contamination and large-scale environmental disasters. Companies from the chemical, mining and beverage industries feature highly in Mattos Filho's expanding client roster. The firm also furnishes advice on reverse logistics systems, protected areas and environmental compliance.

Work Highlights

  • Mattos Filho defended Cosan in two public class actions regarding contaminated industrial waste allegations.

Strengths

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Mattos Filho's team has extensive technical knowledge on environment law and always seeks to bring innovative solutions to the cases we work on together.

Environment respondent
Brazil

No other firm in Brazil has experience in carbon credit-generating projects based on forest restoration as extensive as Mattos Filho's.

Environment respondent
Brazil

Mattos Filho is the firm we go to when we have a sensitive case. It's an experienced practice, with unimpeachable technique and direct communication with our environmental engineers.

Environment respondent
Brazil

Mattos Filho offers above-average communication and technical expertise as well as great ability to understand our issues and present appropriate solutions.

Environment respondent
Brazil

They've always been up for helping and working closely with us. I really like Mattos Filho's environment law practice and I think their lawyers are technically sound.

Environment respondent
Brazil

Notable Practitioners

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Antonio Augusto Reis
3
Antonio Augusto Reis
3
Band 3

Antonio Augusto Reis is held in high regard for his ability to handle large environment law mandates and has particular expertise in judicial and administrative disputes.

Antonio offers great availability, technical capacity and creative solutions.

Antonio is one of the few who can align business perspectives with the guiding principles of the combat of climate change.

Antonio is a great lawyer and the reason why we hired his firm. He handled a very sensitive matter for us, reassuring us from day one. His technique was essential to the case's resolution.

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Rômulo Sampaio
3
Rômulo Sampaio
3
Band 3

Rômulo Sampaio is a well-regarded environment lawyer able to advise on both contentious and non-contentious issues.

Rômulo has the ability to explain complex concepts in a very simple way and to defend our position in a firm and elegant way. He's really a partner to us.

Rômulo is a lawyer to highlight when it comes to environment law cases.

Rômulo's really good technically. He has the drive to find the best resolution to cases, not settling for cookie-cutter solutions.

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Antonio Augusto Reis
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Antonio Augusto Reis
3
Band 3
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Rômulo Sampaio
3
Rômulo Sampaio
3
Band 3
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