Environment, Natural Resources, Energy & Communities
Companies face a dynamic and demanding regulatory and environmental landscape, subject to increasing scrutiny from authorities, investors, and communities. Managing permits and compliance, navigating environmental assessment processes, anticipating regulatory risks, engaging with stakeholders and the surroundings, and ensuring operational continuity is a legal duty, as well as a competitive advantage that protects value, reputation, and social licenses to operate.
Our Environment, Natural Resources, Energy & Communities team is prepared for this challenge. It brings together public and private experience, with attorneys who have worked in State institutions and advised major companies in the mining and energy sectors, as well as trade associations in regulatory, strategic, and contentious processes. We have a practical understanding of how regulations are designed, applied, and enforced.
We deliver solutions based on pragmatic and evidence-based approach backed by deep legal knowledge. In this way, we transform regulatory complexity into clear, manageable decisions aligned with our clients’ business objectives.
Abogados del área
Our Services
Administrative and Judicial Representation
Representation of project owners before State Administration bodies, including sanctioning proceedings initiated by the Superintendencia del Medio Ambiente (SMA — Chile’s Superintendency of the Environment), and before courts, including claims before the Environmental Courts and appeals before higher courts of justice.
Community Engagement, Negotiation, and Environmental Agreements
We foster efficient solutions through negotiation and dialogue with communities, authorities, and stakeholders, seeking agreements and governance models that make projects viable and preserve environmental regulatory compliance.
Government Affairs
We help companies detect and analyze regulatory changes impacting their business; participate in the drafting of regulations; position their interests with solid legal arguments; and build lasting institutional relationships.
Legal Opinions and Regulatory Strategy
Drafting environmental legal opinions for project development, designing strategies to obtain sectoral and environmental permits, and the analysis and design of environmental public policies
Environmental Assessment of Projects
Comprehensive counsel in the preparation of relevance queries (consultas de pertinencia), Environmental Impact Declarations (DIA), and Environmental Impact Studies (EIA), supporting project owners throughout the assessment process before the Servicio de Evaluación Ambiental (SEA — Chile’s Environmental Evaluation Service).