Environment law

Corentin Chevallier is Partner of UGGC Avocats Paris.

Graduated from Paris bar school and the public business law Institute (Institut de droit public des affaires) in 2000, he is also graduated from Sciences Po and has a master in Litigation. He was trained in the best law firms specialized in environmental law in France for 12 years.

Corentin Chevallier is a well-known specialist in environmental law. In this context, he follows up several major projects for high-level institutional clients.

He advises clients on mining and environmental issues, including those regarding hazardous and registered facilities, waste law, water and air quality law, and energy regulations.

In addition, Corentin Chevallier has worked on matters relating to the environmental criminal liability of industrial operators as well as those concerning government liability, including for expropriation claims. He focuses particularly on mining law (in French Guyana for the local federation of mining operators, FEDOMG and mining companies and project monitoring for major energy grid operators.

He is a regular author of legal articles in specialized environmental law publications (magazine Experts, bulletin of industrial environmental law (BDEI) and a trainer of professionals in environmental law at the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry's sustainable development training center (CFDE), in the fields of air, water and polluted sites and soils.

He is also a member of the scientific committee of Atmos'Fair and speaker since 2012 in the annual conferences on legal issues related to air quality and a member of the Interprofessional Federation of Atmospheric Environment Professions (FIMEA).