Environment

Impressive track record in environmental issues

Our Environment Practice offers a broad range of integrated services, enabling us to offer each client a team of experts from our environment and energy groups with the right experience to meet the specific needs for specialization and industry knowledge required by any environmental case.

Our team advises on process-related issues, finance, criminal law, and administrative offenses resulting from breaching regulations protecting natural resources, the environment, and flora and fauna, or which involve historic heritage or town planning.

The services our team provides range from advising on air, land and water pollution; waste disposal and management; atmospheric emissions; and health and safety protection; to issues such as air emission and noise, or climate change. We are experts in advising on developing large-scale projects and on environmental matters relating to the energy sector.

Development of large-scale projects: Our lawyers advise on all environmental matters relating to large energy, town planning or real estate projects (e.g., permits, water, environmental impact, municipal licenses, and issues arising with third parties).

Air emissions and noise: We advise on regulatory and litigation proceedings relating to air emissions or noise pollution.

Water management: We advise on all matters related to water and wastewater legislation (e.g., project development, joint ventures, purchase of water desalinization and sewage treatment plants, public awarding of water supply contracts, penalty proceedings, and administrative regulations).

Soil and water contamination: We advise and defend clients in administrative, civil and criminal proceedings in cases of soil and water contamination.

Waste: We advise on waste generators’ and waste managers’ liabilities, waste treatment plants, waste transport, recycling, etc.

Protected natural areas: We advise on regulatory issues and proceedings involving infringements and authorization denials, regarding activities developed in protected natural areas.

Climate change: We advise on acquiring and managing CO2 emission rights and on flexible mechanisms, including litigation processes.

Agriculture, fertilizers, REACH: We advise on using fertilizers and pesticides, and on agricultural issues, and we defend our clients in court. We also advise on the obligations imposed by REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals), the European Community regulation on the safe use of chemicals.

Renewables & biofuels: We advise and defend clients in a wide range of issues relating to the application of the legal regime for producing clean and renewable energy (e.g., wind energy, solar energy, biomass, and biofuels).

Tax: We advise on pollution and waste taxes, the marketing of companies' emission rights, and provide tax advice in the environmental sector. We also provide tax litigation advice in relation to the legality and challenging of state and regional taxes, including the civil protection tax.

Litigation: We advise on litigation and arbitration related to environmental impacts, including environmental liability litigation (civil, corporate, tax, administrative and criminal).