Multi-jurisdictional firm ECIJA works across a range of areas including energy and natural resources, and environment and sustainability. The firm has advised regional governments in Spain on environmental matters, as well as multinationals on how to comply with circular economy laws.

Madrid-based key contact Victor Moralo continues to lead the advice to Greenpeace on a case brought by the NGO and other Spanish ecological groups before the European Commission against the Spanish state for failure to meet the EU’s reuse and recycling targets. In another ongoing highlight, Moralo is advising the citizens’ platform ILP Mar Menor on the parliamentary processing of the proposition of law for the recognition of Mar Menor lagoon, one of the largest coastal lagoons in the western Mediterranean, as legal personality. This decision could represent a milestone for environmental law in the European Union, as it would recognise the fundamental and inalienable rights of nature to exist and develop as an ecosystem worthy of protection in itself.

The firm also demonstrates its commitment to sustainability through a number of internal and external initiatives: All of the firm’s offices collaborate with recycling companies in the purchase of office supplies and maintain active recycling and waste management policies. Aditionally, the firm’s Las Palmas de Gran Canarias office collaborates with Terra Incognita Docs, a company which produces documentaries about the environment to raise awareness among viewers.