Patricio Leyton

Practice Areas

Environment and Natural Resources; Project Development and Permitting; Circular Economy

Career

FerradaNehme, Partner (2008-Present); before with Urrutia y Cía., Associate and Partner (1996-2008); Latin America Coordinator and Research Fellow for the Mining Minerals and Sustainable Development, London, England, (2000-2001).

Professional Memberships

Chilean Bar Association; International Bar Association; Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation

Publications

Author of several publications on topics related to environment and natural resources, among them, the most recent:

2017 “Company and Community Relations: Trial and Error?”, Mining Law Conference at the Law School of Universidad de Chile;

2017 “Compensation in the Use of Natural Resources”, Environmental Law Conference at the Law School of Universidad de Chile;

2017 “An Evolving Landscape of Priorities for Species, Habitats, and Biodiversity”, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Quito;

2016 “Commentaries to the Supreme Court decision of the Project “Modification Puerto Punta Totoralillo”. Critical Analysis in connection to technical deference”, Environmental Law Journal of the Law School of the Universidad de Chile.

Personal

Professor of Environmental Law, Universidad de Chile (2002-Present); Lecturer of Natural Resources Regulation, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2009-2012).