Mr Edesio Carrasco > Schultz Carrasco Benitez Abogados > Santiago, Chile > Lawyer Profile
Schultz Carrasco Benitez Abogados Offices
Isidora Goyenechea 3250,
8th floor
Las Condes
7550083
Chile
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Mr Edesio Carrasco
Work Department
Environmental and Natural Resources Law/Environmental Litigation
Position
Partner in charge of the Public Law and Natural Resources Group
Career
His practice focuses mainly in environment and sectorial permits, energy, land use planning, and the development of industrial projects. He also advises his clients in the solution of their controversies and their defense before ordinary and special courts in administrative matters.
Prior to founding SCHULTZ CARRASCO BENITEZ he was Regional Director of the Environmental Assessment Agency and the Chief of the Litigation and Legal Department of the same agency until early 2014. Before that, he worked in the Ministry of the Environment and in Allende Bascuñán y Cía. Ltda.
In 2010 he was a foreign lawyer at the Energy Group of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, in Washington D.C., USA.
Lecturer at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad del Desarrollo Law Schools. He has written over twenty articles and three books in matters of his specialization.
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
Graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School in 2006. In 2009 he was awarded the Chilean–CONICYT Scholarship and in 2010 got a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in Environmental Law.
Lawyer Rankings
Chile > Environment
(Leading individuals)Housing several lawyers with previous experience at environmental agencies, Schultz Carrasco Benitez Abogados‘ ‘longstanding experience in advising clients on environmental matters is invaluable‘. Key areas of work include the design and environmental assessment of projects, along with judicial and administrative lawsuits, and compliance with environmental legislation. The group is co-led by Edesio Carrasco, whose practice includes environmental and sectoral permits, energy matters, land use planning, and the development of industrial projects; and Rodrigo Benítez, an expert in the environmental assessment of investment projects, ‘who deeply understands the regulations‘. The senior associates to note are former Environmental Assessment Agency lawyers Carlo Sepúlveda and Graciela Venegas, along with environmental, urban, energy and health law expert Ingrid Henríquez.