Barros Silva Varela & Vigil's public law and environmental department fields experts in environmental assessments, compliance with environmental and sectoral regulations, and sanctioning proceedings before Chile’s Superintendency of the Environment and Environmental Protection Agency. The team is co-led by public and regulatory law specialist, Claudia Ferreiro, whose practice takes in projects’ environmental impact assessments, defences before state agencies, concession-granting procedures and environmental litigation; and Felipe Riesco, whose past experience includes serving as both Ministry of the Environment Undersecretary and legal advisor to the Superintendency of the Environment. At senior associate level, José Ignacio Vial focuses on regulatory and environmental issues, while Esteban Carmona advises on regulatory public law and administrative sanctioning processes.
Key clients
- CMPC Maderas
- Statkraft
- Inversiones Rentas Inmobiliarias
- Inversiones Pacífico Sur
- Hot Chili
- Club Andino Osorno
- Antillanca
- Rucalhue Energía
- EL Zorro Sociedad Contractual Minera
- Putaendo River Supervisory Board
- Salmones Blumar
- Municipality of Puerto Natales
Work highlights
- Assisting Statkraft with a hydroelectric power plant's conflict with an indigenous community, further to alleged environmental impacts not foreseen in the environmental assessment.
- Advising CMPC Maderas on the environmental assessment of the modernisation and expansion of a Los Angeles manufacturing plant project.
- Successfully defended Inversiones Rentas Inmobiliarias against a protection action that was filed against several real estate companies claiming that certain projects would destroy a wetland called Sargento Silva.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Claudia Ferreiro, Felipe Riesco