Environment

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Provided by Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría

PPU provides the support necessary to establish legal strategies that allow our clients to strengthen the legal management of environmental issues, thus reducing the legal risks that may arise from their activities. In this sense, our advice and support in environmental legal matters seeks to resolve the needs of our clients within the applicable regulatory framework.

• Regulatory issues and identification of risks.
• Analysis of the legal viability of innovative solutions regarding water, emissions and waste matters.
• Environmental legal support in the structuring of projects and investment processes.
• Strategies for managing environmental contingencies and support in the remediation process for contaminated sites.
• Environmental aspects in corporate processes (mergers, acquisitions and divisions).
• Support in relations with designated authorities.
• Applying for and obtaining environmental licenses, permits and authorizations.
• Monitoring and reporting administrative procedures.
• Training in environmental legislation.
• Support in citizen participation mechanisms: consultations with ethnic communities, public audiences and socialization of projects.
• Comprehensive environmental legal advice.
• Defining environmental legal strategies.
• Constitutional and environmental legal actions: class actions, guardianships and legality control actions.
• Defense in administrative sanctioning procedures.
• Environmental litigation in environmental damages claims or appeals before environmental courts.