Fabricio Soler

Environment and Sustainability; Sanitation and Solid Waste; Infrastructure and Regulatory

Fabricio is one of the heads of the Environment, Sustainability, and Waste Department at Felsberg Advogados. He has been working at our firm since 2010. He specialises in Environmental Law and has a strong track record in participating in the drafting of the National Policy on Solid Waste and the Law on Sanitation. Fabricio has also been active in sector agreements, reverse logistics systems, shared responsibility, circular economy, as well as Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and concessions in the area of urban sanitation and the management of solid waste.

Fabricio is an experienced partner who is also a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations, and the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) for studies on waste.

Counselor of the Brazilian Business Network for Life Cycle Assessment;

Director of the Basic Sanitation Division of The Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP);

Advisor to the Brazilian Business Network for Life Cycle Assessment, Advisor to the UN Global Compact;

Member of the Brazilian Union of Environmental Attorneys (UBAA);

Member of the Brazilian Association of Environmental Law Professors (Aprodab);

Former Board Member of the Upper Council on the Environment (Cosema) of The Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP);

Former President of the Energy Law Commission of the São Paulo branch of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP);

Admitted to the São Paulo branch of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB/SP);

Consultant for UN Habitat, UN Industrial Development, and the National Confederation of Industry for studies on waste and the circular economy;

Coordinator of the Waste Management and Law and Circular Economy courses at ABNT, and professor of Waste Law in postgraduate courses in Environmental Law at PUC/SP, PUC/RS, MBA in ESG at IBMEC, among others;

Participant in sessions of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (UNEP) to develop a legally binding international instrument to combat plastic pollution;

Author of the “Waste Law” collection, including the books Recycling Incentive Law, Reverse Logistics Systems for Packaging in General, Jurisprudence and Regulation of Public Urban Cleaning Services and Solid Waste Management; organizer of the Waste Code; Co-author of the book Solid Waste Management: What the Law Says; and of several chapters of specialized works on Environmental Law, Waste Law, and Environmental Compliance.

SOLER, Fabricio; BERTOCCELLI, Rodrigo. Compliance ambiental nas pautas do Legislativo e do Judiciário. Migalhas, 14.02.2020;

SOLER, Fabricio Dorado; SILVA FILHO, Carlos Roberto. Gestão de Resíduos Sólidos, o que diz a lei, 4ª edição São Paulo: Editora Trevisan, 2019;

SOLER, Fabricio Dorado; CIPRIANO, Tasso Alexandre Richetti Pires, Código dos resíduos, São Paulo, Instituto PNRS, 2016;

SOLER, Fabricio Dorado. Os acordos setoriais previstos na Lei Federal n. 12.305/2010 (Política Nacional de Resíduos Sólidos – PNRS): Desafios jurídicos para a implementação da logística reversa no Brasil. 2014. Dissertation (LL.M.) – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC- SP), 2014;

SOLER, Fabricio Dorado; LEMOS, Patrícia Faga Iglecias; MACHADO FILHO, José Valverde. Acordos setoriais, regulamentos e termos de compromisso. In: JARDIM, Arnaldo; VALVERDE, José; YOSHIDA, Consuelo. Política Nacional, gestão e gerenciamento de resíduos sólidos. São Paulo: Manole, 2012.

Siemens Brasil Ltda; LATAM Airlines; Mercedes Benz do Brasil / Daimler Truck (Brazil); Itatiaia Eletro e Móveis S/A; ICL América do Sul; Galvani; CLI Sul; Ascenty; Heinz Brasil S.A.; DSM-Firmenich

Fabricio’s recent experience includes advising:

A national association of electronics manufacturers in the negotiation process and drafting of a sectorial agreement for the structuring, implementation and making operational of a reverse logistics system for household electronics products;

Associations of pharmaceutical companies in the negotiation process of the reverse logistics system of household medicines discarded by consumers, corresponding to medication for human use, industrialized and manipulated, and their packaging;

Legal advisor on the study Estimates of the Costs for Enabling the Universalization of the Acceptable Destination of Solid Waste in Brazil, developed by GO Associados in partnership with the Brazilian Association of Urban Sanitation and Solid Waste Companies (Abrelpe);

Specialized and strategic legal advice for projects, studies and modeling of concessions and PPPs for urban cleaning services and solid waste management;

Dozens of companies and representative entities in the signing of Sectoral Agreements and Terms of Commitment aimed at the implementation and making operational of reverse logistics systems for the most diverse products – tyres; batteries; lubricating oils; electronic equipment and its components (white, brown, blue and green lines); chemicals, including paints; mattresses; and packaging from products from various sectors of the economy, including personal hygiene, perfumes and cosmetics, electronics and their components, cleaning and related products, pet products, paints, food, and other economic sectors involving glass, paper and cardboard packaging, steel, plastic etc.

Universidade Católica de Santos

PhD in International Environmental Law

PUC-SP – Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

LL.M. in Environmental Law

FGV – Fundação Getulio Vargas;

Executive MBA in Infrastructure

USP – Universidade de São Paulo

Postgraduate degree in Environmental Management and Energy Sector Business

USP – Universidade de São Paulo

Specialization in Environmental Management

Universitário de Araraquara

LL.B.