Camila del Villar > DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán > Bogota, Colombia > Lawyer Profile
DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán Offices
CARRERA 7 NO 71-21
TORRE B OF 602
BOGOTA
Colombia
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Camila del Villar
Work Department
Environmental Law & Sustainable Development
Position
Camila is a Partner in the Environmental Law & Sustainable Development practice area.
Career
Her practice and comprehensive professional experience focus on the areas of environmental law, natural resources and corporate sustainability, with special emphasis on the energy, chemical, agro-industrial, manufacturing, and infrastructure sectors. She also advises government agencies and industrial associations, primarily, in the energy and chemical sectors.
Camila’s professional career encompasses legal and public policy aspects of environmental nature, such as licensing procedures and environmental permits, due diligence processes, project finance, environmental responsibility processes, prior consultation and management of hazardous materials and chemical substances. Likewise, she has extensive experience providing legal advice to clients from different economic sectors in the identification and compliance of regulatory and environmental requirements applicable to medium and large-scale projects.
Before joining DLA Piper Martínez Beltrán, Camila worked in the Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources practices of renowned Ibero-American and international firms. She has also participated as a lecturer in the Master of Public Administration at Universidad de los Andes. She has participated as a speaker and moderator in multiple conferences of the business sector, as well as prestigious associations such as the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Industrialists (ANDI), the Colombian Oil and Gas Association (ACP), and the Colombo-American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham Colombia).
Languages
Spanish and English
Education
- Master’s Degree in Environmental Law, Queen Mary University of London (England)
- Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Law, Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia)
- Lawyer, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia)
Lawyer Rankings
Colombia > Environment
(Next Generation Partners)New entrant to the table for 2024, DLA Piper Martinez Beltrán
’s environmental law group has posted significant growth following the arrival of new practice head Camila del Villar in February 2022 from Holland & Knight LLP. Del Villar, who was promoted from director to partner in January 2023, is dedicated to environmental law and sustainable development and is praised by sources for being ‘very knowledgeable about regulation and the market in general’. Significantly, the group added seven new clients over the past year, including Macquarie Group, Norte Santandereana de Gas, and Sika. Associate Daniela Pinilla Mendez, who joined from Pinilla González & Prieto Abogados in March 2022, is also noted.