Barros Silva Varela & Vigil's public law and environmental department fields experts in environmental assessments, compliance with environmental and sectoral regulations, and sanctioning proceedings before Chile’s Superintendency of the Environment and Environmental Protection Agency. The team is co-led by public and regulatory law specialist, Claudia Ferreiro, whose practice takes in projects’ environmental impact assessments, defences before state agencies, concession-granting procedures and environmental litigation; and Felipe Riesco, whose past experience includes serving as both Ministry of the Environment Undersecretary and legal advisor to the Superintendency of the Environment. At senior associate level, José Ignacio Vial focuses on regulatory and environmental issues, while Esteban Carmona advises on regulatory public law and administrative sanctioning processes.
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José Ignacio is part of the Public, Regulatory and Environmental Law team where he advises on the development of legal strategies for the environmental assessment of projects of different nature in the Environmental Impact Assessment System, as well as in the framework of other procedures, both administrative and judicial. In addition, he also advises projects on compliance with environmental and sectoral regulations.
Leading individuals
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Claudia Ferreiro, Felipe Riesco