The six-lawyer environment and sustainable development practice at full-service international law firm Philippi Prietocarrizosa Ferrero DU & Uría has an enviable market reputation for high-stakes environmental projects. The team’s expertise takes in domestic environmental procedures (including project development and permitting issues), the environmental aspects of local and international M&A and financing deals, and high-profile administrative and judicial environmental litigation. Department head Juan José Eyzaguirre has long-established experience in major environmental projects and disputes; Felipe Arévalo (who was raised to the partnership in January 2022), is an administrative and judicial environmental litigator; and former Carcelén, Desmadryl, Guzmán & Tapia name partner, Matías Desmadryl, is a water resources, environment and natural resources specialist. At principal associate level, Mario Mozó routinely acts on the environmental law aspects of the energy, mining, agribusiness and infrastructure sectors.

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Key clients

Anglo American Chile
Inmobiliaria Las Salinas
Compañía Minera Maricunga
Compañía Minera Mantos de Oro
Kinross Minera Chile
Empresa Nacional del Petróleo
Sociedad Nacional de Oleoductos
Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros Metro
Minera Salar Blanco
Linde Gas Chile
Bodegas San Francisco
Sacyr Concesiones
Consorcio Eólico
Grenergy Renovables

Work highlights

Assisted Anglo American with the preparation and processing of an appeal (before the Executive Director of SEA), against an Environmental Qualification Resolution of the Valparaíso Region's Environmental Assessment Commission.
Advised Inmobiliaria Las Salinas on the environmental impact assessment of a remediation project.
Leading the defence of Compañía Minera Maricunga against two environmental damages lawsuits filed by the Chilean State Defense Council before the Environmental Court.