Environment
Specialized, Integrated Legal Support
Our Environment practice brings together professionals with deep expertise in environmental law. When needed, our specialists work closely with the firm’s other practice areas to deliver the integrated, innovative and results-oriented solutions our clients have come to rely on.
OUR SERVICES COVER
• Risk assessment and management of environmental liabilities and disputes, including judicial and administrative proceedings, fine conversion programs, and administrative settlements (TACs)
• Legal support in matters involving traditional communities, Indigenous peoples and quilombola communities
• Environmental compliance and regulation of natural resource use
• Decommissioning (mining operations, oil and gas facilities, industrial sites, and other assets)
• Structuring issuances of green bonds and other sustainable finance instruments
• Management of contaminated sites and remediation of degraded areas
• Solid waste management
• Crisis management in environmental incidents
• Development and implementation of socio-environmental governance frameworks and institutional policies
• Environmental licensing, authorization applications, and compensatory measures
• Environmental due diligence and contractual support in M&A and other transactions
• Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and biotechnology
• Cultural and archaeological heritage sites and listed and protected properties
• Water resources and basic sanitation
• Conservation units, public concessions, and indirect expropriation
Recognition
Professionals
Partner
Fernanda A. Tanure
Climate, Environment, Environmental, Climate and Mining, ESG, Mining
55 11 2179-4652 fernanda.tanure@bmalaw.com.br
Partner
Márcio Pereira
Agribusiness, Climate, Crisis Management, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Climate and Mining, ESG, Government Relations, Mineral and Metals Industry, Mining, Oil & Gas
55 21 3824-5865 marcio.pereira@bmalaw.com.br
Lawyer
João Raso
Climate, Environment, Environmental, Climate and Mining, Mineral and Metals Industry, Mining
55 31 2391-7399 jhcr@bmalaw.com.br
Lawyer
Marlus Oliveira
Climate, Environment, Environmental, Climate and Mining, Mining
55 21 3824-1010 mnol@bmalaw.com.brOther practice areas