Julio Recordon

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His practice focuses on environmental law, including advice on the Environmental Impact Assessment System, audits, waste management, sectoral permits and administrative procedures, and litigation related to energy, mining, aquaculture, forestry, health, and real estate projects, among others.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

• Astaldi on claim and administrative invalidation procedures related to the environmental approval of an electric transmission line.
• Mainstream Renewable Power on environmental and permitting aspects related to the financing of four NCRE projects for a total of 571 MW.
• Codelco on a strategic advice regarding environmental matters and water law.
• Clorox on a permanent advice on environmental and regulatory matters.
• Barrick Gold on environmental issues related to Compañía Minera Zaldívar.
• Sociedad Contractual Aguas de Punilla on its defense against a lawsuit for alleged environmental damage regarding the La Punilla Reservoir.
• Archroma on its defense in various administrative proceedings due to a chemical spill.
• Sherwin Williams on permanent advice on environmental and regulatory matters.
• SGA on the preparation of Studies and Environmental Impact Statements.

ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIPS

• Cabinet Advisor, Comptroller General of the Republic (2016-2017).
• Legal Division, Ministry of Environment (2010-2014).
• Professor of the Degree in Construction Law, Universidad de los Andes (2019-2020).
• Professor of Environmental Legislation, Universidad de Chile (2011-2013).
• Professor of Environmental Legislation, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2010).
• Teaching Assistant of Administrative Environmental Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2008-2009).
• Visiting researcher in environmental justice matters, Universität Hamburg, Germany (2009).
• Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-author of “Economic Instruments for Air Quality Management: Application of Emissions Taxes and Permits in Chile”, Estudios Públicos N° 135 (2014).
• Author of “Protected Areas in the Marine and Coastal Space”, Environmental Justice, Law and Management Instruments of the Marine and Coastal Space (2013).
• Author of “Legal and Environmental Conflicts in the Marine and Coastal Space”, Environmental Justice, Law and Management Instruments of the Marine and Coastal Space (2013).

SEMINARS

• Speaker in “Impacts of the New Environmental Institutionality”, DICTUC (2013).
• Speaker in XX Congress of Sanitary Engineering, AIDIS Chile (2013).

 

RELATED AREAS

• Environmental Law and Litigation

EDUCATION

• Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.
• Degree in Administrative Law, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (2010).

ADMISSIONS

• Chile (2010).

LANGUAGES

• Spanish.
• English.
• German.