Founded in 1996, Terraqui is a law firm specialized in environmental law.
We bring a blend of legal expertise in environmental legislation issues, standing out in the area of waste, natural resources, territory and urban planning as well as in public procurement.
We have consolidated our experience addressing mainly to clients of the environmental sector.
We provide legal advice to achieve on environmental management, on administrative, civil and criminal liability, and offer training in environmental matters.
At Terraqui, we generate legal knowledge applied to the needs of our customers. Terraqui walk with you to meet your environmental challenges.
Services
Our knowledge about environmental law allows us to advise, defend and train our customers. Since 1996 we work with companies, specially in the environmental sector, governments, special interest groups and academic institutions.
We offer comprehensive advice
We provide legal advice to achieve on environmental management, on administrative, civil and criminal liability, and offer training in environmental matters.
- We help our clients to anticipate and solve unforeseen legal challenges that appear in your daily management, and provide counselling on environment issues. We help to prevent environmental risks and to improve the management in your company.
- We work to legalize activities and obtain the necessary permits
- We are always near by, informing of the changes of the legislation with environmental incidence that can affect your activity. We offer a fee service to orientate the organization in the fulfilment of the law and to save extra economic costs.
- We provide legal advice on drafting legislation and assist our customer in his relation with the legislative process.
- We give legal counselling to Sustainable Business Organizations
We do defense
Terraqui works to support our clients’ best interest by administrative procedure or before Court.
Often discrepancies occur between the specific authority that leads environmental normative aspects or related and the way the activity is developed. Terraqui works to support our clients’ best interest by administrative procedure or before Court.
Administrative defence
- We work with environmental records (such as pollution, waste, water, natural resources, mining activities).
- We appeal to obtain permits.
- We manage claims on environmental taxation, public procurement and state aid.
- Non-observance of European law is raised to the Community authorities.
Legal defence before courts
We offer counsel and defence our clients before contentious administrative, criminal, civil proceedings:
- Fines, cessation of activities, inactivity of a public administration body, protection of fundamental rights.
- Crimes against natural resources and environment.
- Preventing and reminding environmental damages, emission and immission approach.
- Breaches of Community law before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
We offer training
The dynamism of environmental law – the most changing within administrative law– forces us to constantly update our legal knowledge. We apply this information on our advisory work and defence, but also we transfer it to academic institutions and other organizations where we direct customized training.
Expertise:
- Universitat de Barcelona
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili
- UOC
- Escola d’Administració Pública
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
- Universitat de Girona
- Cambra de Comerç de Barcelona.
In-Company training for Organizations
The legal aspects directly affect the environmental management of organizations. It is therefore important to have specialized and up to date training that enables decision-makers to keep abreast of technical and legal obligations incorporated to their activities. Terraqui provides specific training in policy with environmental impact adapted to each organization.
Founded in 1996, Terraqui is a law firm specialized in environmental law. We bring a blend of legal expertise in environmental legislation issues, standing out in the area of waste, natural resources, territory and urban planning as well as in public procurement.
Team
At Terraqui we are characterized by an upgrade spirit, by a demanding accuracy of the legal criteria and by clear vocation for environmental law.
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We love this job because it involves working with professionals from different sectors and because each case is a challenge that requires us to keep up.
At Terraqui the activity of lawyers goes beyond their own work in the office, because we understand the importance of knowing in-depth and on-site our clients activity and thus provide the most appropriate legal solution to their needs.
Christian Morron Lingl
Lawyer, Bachelor of Law from the University of Barcelona (LLB 1990).
Rigorous study of each case, perseverance, continuous updating of environmental law and full involvement with customers are the sources on which I founded Terraqui and keep on maintaining its spirit.
Founder of Terraqui (January 1996), and he is the coordinator of his team and collaborators.
Founder of the Environmental Law Section (1992) at the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB), he was the Secretary until 1995 and Chairman until 2002. Secretary of the Fundación Forum Ambiental Board of Trustees since 2007. Member of several associations and organizations related to environmental management.
He conducts many courses; he is a conference speaker and author of articles on environmental legal topics since 1993.
Laia Soriano-Montagut Jené
Lawyer, graduated in Law from the University of Lleida (2000). One academic year at the University of Ferrara (1998-1999). Master’s Degree in Urban and Real Estate Management from the UAB (2001) and Master’s Degree in Territorial and Urban Planning Studies, with the Diploma of Urban Planning Technique from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Pompeu Fabra University and the School of Public Administration of Catalonia (2009).
My global analytic spirit has taught me that details are the key to conflict resolution. She has more than fifteen years of professional practice in the local and regional public administration, and also in the private sector since 2012.
Laia Soriano-Montagut Jené is a specialist in administrative, territorial and urban planning law. Since 2015, Secretary of the Spanish Association of Urban Planning Technicians and its Catalan Association.
Aloia López Ferro
Lawyer, Law graduate from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2014), Master of Laws from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2016), Master of Environmental Law (2019) from CEDAT- University Rovira i Virgili.
I am a lawyer because I have always been certain that I have a clear vocation towards environmental law. It is my ambition that environmental law be known and applied.
She began her professional career in the private sector, practicing law on her own and collaborating with other freelance professionals. She has also collaborated with and given legal advice to different entities in the field of environmental law. She is currently an associate professor of administrative law at the Rovira i Virgili University.
Irene Mataró Villacampa
Lawyer, Law graduate from the Pompeu Fabra University (2015), Master of Laws from the Pompeu Fabra University (2017), Master of Environmental Law (2019) from CEDAT- University Rovira i Virgili.
Environmental law allows me to be very creative and to unite two passions: providing a service to society through law practice and nature.
She began her professional career in the private sector, practising law in various law firms advising on administrative and associative law. She is currently an associate professor of administrative law at the Rovira i Virgili University.
Lidia Ríos Vera
Lawyer, Law graduate from the Rovira i Virgili University (2018), Master of Environmental Law from CEDAT-Rovira i Virgili University (2022), Master of Laws from Rovira i Virgili University (2022).
My goal is to add value to society through environmental law. Commitment and dedication are fundamental values for me in the exercise of this profession.
She began her professional career providing legal assistance in the private sector. She has also collaborated with and given legal advice to different entities in the field of environmental law.
Anna Mulà Arribas
Lawyer, Law graduate from the Abat Oliba University (1995), Postgraduate in Business Environmental Management from the Pompeu Fabra University (1996), master’s degree in CITES, management and conservation of species in trade, from the International University of Andalusia (2014) and teacher of this Master. She began her professional career in the discipline of Environmental Law in the private sector (Estudi Jurídic Ambiental), she continued in the public sector, joining for 11 years as head of the Singular Advisory Unit of the Catalan Water Agency, to later collaborate as a legal advisor in an NGO. He has intervened in various Legislative Assemblies of different countries as advisor and appearing party and in meetings of international conventions (CITES and CDB). She is the author of numerous articles, an external reviewer of IPBES reports and a member of the JAL & IAWS Journal Expert Committee (IUSTEL).
Anna Prieto Sirvent
Administration. Three years of Psychology degree. Training as a Senior Technician in Foreign Trade (Institute for Training and Employment), Basic and Financial Accounting (Centre for International Studies) and training in computer security and remote management.
Attending with autonomy to facilitate the work to the team of Terraqui, its clients and collaborators, as well as to generate confidence is what gives sense to my professional practice.
She has over 20 years of experience in the field of legal administrative assistance.
Contact
Diagonal 527, 1-1
08029 Barcelona
info@terraqui.com
T. 93 414 63 07
F. 93 209 24 67