Environmental

Posse Herrera Ruiz has a leading and specialized practice on environment and sustainability. It offers integral and crosscutting legal advisory services to industries such as the hydrocarbon, mining, energy, manufacturing, agriculture and infrastructure as well as to financial institutions.

The Firm has a strong team of lawyers specialized in environmental, natural resources and energy law who regularly advice national and international clients in environmental matters related to M&A transactions (including environmental due diligence) , the development of greenfield and brownfield projects (including environmental licensing and permitting), project and corporate financing (environmental compliance opinions, Equator Principles) and in connection with the operation and closure/abandonment of projects. Together with the firm’s litigation practice group, the environmental practice group represents clients in administrative environmental litigation and environmental litigation (including civil actions, collective actions and constitutional injunctions).

Lawyers

Alvaro José Rodríguez

Partner

Natural Resources and Energy

alvaro.rodriguez@phrlegal.com

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Alvaro José Rodríguez

Partner

Alvaro José Rodríguez is a Partner of Posse Herrera Ruiz. His practice focuses on Natural Resources and Energy, with special emphasis on Oil and Gas, Mining and Environmental Law, Acquisitions and Divestitures, and Financing of the power industry. Alvaro José works on structuring, documentation and negotiation of oil and gas and mining transactions, including host country agreements, shareholder agreements and operating agreements. He has advised major international companies in their acquisit...

alvaro.rodriguez@phrlegal.com

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Erika Serrano

Associate

Natural Resources and Energy

erika.serrano@phrlegal.com

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Erika Serrano

Associate

Erika Serrano is an Associate at Posse Herrera Ruiz. Her practice focuses on Natural Resources and Environmental Law. Erika has 7 years of experience working in environmental-related matters in the public and private sector. Before joining Posse Herrera Ruiz, she was an associate attorney at a law firm in Santiago de Chile and Bogotá, environmental legal counsel of a company of the environmental sanitation sector, and legal advisor at the Secretariat of Environment of Bogotá and the Unit of Nati...

erika.serrano@phrlegal.com

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Julián Manrique

Associate

Natural Resources and Energy

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Julián Manrique

Associate

Julian Manrique is an associate at Posse Herrera Ruiz. His practice focuses on Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental law. Julian has over 3 years of experience working in Posse Herrera Ruiz in cross-border transactions and the structuring of energy and mining projects. Before joining Posse Herrera Ruiz, Julian worked at a local law firm. Julian has a JD from Universidad de los Andes, a graduate degree in Environmental Law from Universidad del Rosario and a Master’s in Environmental ...

julian.manrique@phrlegal.com

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