Mr Pedro Poveda > Gómez-Acebo & Pombo > Madrid, Spain > Lawyer Profile
Gómez-Acebo & Pombo Offices

CASTELLANA 216
28046 MADRID
Spain
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Mr Pedro Poveda

Work Department
Public Law and regulatory, Environment
Position
Partner. Head of Environment.
Career
Pedro is a Public Law and Regulatory partner at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo and head of Environment.
He has extensive experience in environmental law, waste, integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) and environmental authorizations.
He has worked as President of Sigma Enviro S.A., an integral environmental management consultancy company, particularly specialised in the field of waste and IPPC. He has also held different positions as a civil servant in the Ministry of the Environment (head of the Regulations Area, deputy director general of Basic Regulations and advisory member of the General Technical Secretariat).
Languages
Spanish, English, French
Memberships
Madrid Bar Association
Environmental Bar Association of Madrid
Education
He holds a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a diploma in Community Law from the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. He is currently studying a doctorate program in Socioeconomic, Territorial, Legal and Educational Instruments of the Environment at the Complutense University of Madrid.
Lawyer Rankings
Spain > Environment
(Hall of Fame)The leading environment, climate change & sustainability team at Gómez-Acebo & Pombo has dedicated expertise in environment, circular economy, water, and climate change matters, as well as over two decades of experience in the sector. Notably, the firm has recently seen an increase in its waste management-related work, due to new regulatory developments in the region. Market giants Pedro Poveda and Santiago Garrido
co-head the team. Poveda has extensive experience in environmental law topics including waste, integrated pollution prevention and control, and environmental authorisations. Garrido often assists local and foreign clients on administrative and judicial proceedings relating to environmental, energy, and natural resources matters. Other key individuals include Eduardo Orteu, who specialises in water law, waste management regulation, and sustainability issues, and Helena Villena Romera, an expert in industrial environment, climate change and biodiversity.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Environment
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Manufacturing
- Industry focus: Retail
- Intellectual property: Trade marks
- Projects and energy
- Public law
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Venture capital
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets: Equity
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: TMT
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: patents
- Private equity
- Transport: Other transport
- White-collar crime
- Capital markets: Debt
- Employment
- Insurance
- Real estate and construction
- Tax
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Transport: Shipping