Environment

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP

Client Satisfaction

Herbert Smith Freehills LLP‘s environment team often assists clients with the environmental aspects of corporate transactions, as well as environmental issues surrounding renewable, mining, and industrial projects. The firm is also involved in environmental litigation with local authorities and regulatory bodies. Iria Calviño leads the practice, specialising in decarbonisation, renewable energies, and environmental permitting. Esther Lumbreras has recently handled several ESG-related matters, including managing environmental liabilities in M&A transactions.

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Testimonials

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‘I believe that the skills of the lawyers at this legal firm are incredibly good in the fields we have hired them for, such as M&A transaction, and energy regulation.’
'HSF Environment's team, led by Iría Calviño, is very complete in terms of expertise in energy and infrastructure matters with a specific E&I department. They specialise in mining and renewable energy plants, projects that have a very important environmental component.'
'Iria Calviño is always available and very approachable.'
'HSF has a highly qualified team specialised in this practice. Likewise, their professionals stand out for their particular knowledge of environmental matters, which is crucial to the interests of our company, and their quick approach to the issues that arise and their agility in responding to them are particularly noteworthy. A new feature is the specialisation in ESG, an added value for the team, providing our company with a significant improvement in the provision of services and differentiating them from the competition.'

Key clients

Berkeley Minera España
Cobre Las Cruces
Magnum Industrial Partners
Quercus Real Assets Limited
Interogo Holding
Sociedade para o desenvolvemento de Proxectos Estratéxicos de Galicia
Ocean Born Foundation
Asociación Española del Bioetanol

Work highlights

Advising Berkeley Minera on all the legal aspects related to its uranium mining projects in Spain, especially on regulatory, environmental and contentious litigation (drafting allegations, assisting in the challenges against the permits etc.) matters.
Advised Impulsa Galicia, from a regulatory, public law and corporate and commercial law perspective, on the creation of a public-private utility to carry out the development of energy projects in Galicia (later incorporated as "Recursos de Galicia").
Advising Asociación Española del Bioetanol on the contentious-administrative appeal against Order TED/1342/2022, of December 23, establishing the limit of biofuels produced from food and fodder crops for the purposes of the target for the sale or consumption of biofuels and biogas for transport purposes.