FerradaNehme

FerradaNehme's ‘top-notch’ environment and natural resources team ’stands out for its knowledge’. The eight-strong group is widely respected for its advice on project-related developments and permits, including strategy design and implementation, along with the filing and management of permits. It further assists clients’ government and community relations teams with developing preventive strategies to avoid environmental disputes. The practice is increasingly involved in litigation, as well as sanctioning procedures before the Superintendency of the Environment. It also has notable expertise in Chile’s newly-enacted recycling and extended producer-liability legislation (EPR Law). The department’s highlights include representing BHP in an environmental damage lawsuit filed by The State Defence Council against a group of companies for alleged damage to wetlands. ‘Great for highly complex issues’, team head Patricio Leyton advises on energy and mining project development, including permitting and Environmental Impact Assessment System work; Valeria Ruz's wide-ranging practice encompasses permits, projects, environmental assessments, litigation and community relations; and Carola Salamanca handles permitting, project development, land use and EPR Law matters. At director level, Claudio Tapia's career includes a period at the Superintendence of the Environment as a prosecutor of administrative sanctioning procedures; but environmental litigator María-Pilar Dominguez left he firm in June 2024.