Mr Eduardo Orteu > Gómez-Acebo & Pombo > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Offices

CASTELLANA 216
28046 MADRID
Spain
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Mr Eduardo Orteu

Work Department
Public Law and regulatory, Environment
Position
Counsel. Public Law and Regulatory.
Career
He is a State Civil Servant (on leave) and formerly served as a Parliamentary Advisor in Cabinet of the Minister for Ecological Transition and Head of the Support Unit for the General Water Directorate at the Secretariat of State for the Environment in the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment. Previously he held a post as Sustainable Development Advisor as a Permanent Representative of Spain to the United Nations in New York.
Additionally, during his tenure in the Administration he has served in the General Technical Secretariat for the Ministry of the Environment, the Service for the Defence of Competition for the Ministry of the Economy, the General Technical Secretariat for the Ministry of Science and Technology and the General Technical Secretariat for the Ministry of Public Works.
Languages
Spanish, English, French
Memberships
Representative of our Firm in the Spanish Group for Green Growth
Member of the Committee of Legal Firms for the International Desalination Association (IDA)
Education
He holds a Law Degree from the Complutense University of Madrid and has completed various courses, including an advanced course on Public Policies of the European Union from the European Institute for Public Administration, Maastricht, Netherlands and a National Defence Course from the Centre for Higher Education for National Defence. He holds a Master on EU and Spanish Competition Law from the Universidad Juan Carlos I of Madrid. He completed post-graduate studies on Financing for Development from New York University.
Lawyer Rankings
Spain > Environment
(Leading associates)The leading environment, climate change & sustainability team at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has dedicated expertise in environment, circular economy, water, and climate change matters, as well as over two decades of experience in the sector. Notably, the firm has recently seen an increase in its waste management-related work, due to new regulatory developments in the region. Market giants Pedro Poveda and Santiago Garrido
co-head the team. Poveda has extensive experience in environmental law topics including waste, integrated pollution prevention and control, and environmental authorisations. Garrido often assists local and foreign clients on administrative and judicial proceedings relating to environmental, energy, and natural resources matters. Other key individuals include Eduardo Orteu, who specialises in water law, waste management regulation, and sustainability issues, and Helena Villena Romera, an expert in industrial environment, climate change and biodiversity.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Environment
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Manufacturing
- Industry focus: Retail
- Intellectual property: Trade marks
- Projects and energy
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Venture capital
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: TMT
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: patents
- Private equity
- Transport: Other transport
- White-collar crime
- Capital markets: Debt
- Employment
- Insurance
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Transport: Shipping