Milaré Advogados

Led by senior environmental lawyer Édis Milaré, who is recognized both as a scholar and as an author, Milaré Advogados is a boutique Law Firm dedicated solely to environmental advocacy, due to the high expertise of its professionals. It is regarded as one of the most widely acclaimed Environmental Law firms in Brazil, having won successive awards from domestic and international publications.

Notwithstanding, the firm has three specialized departments that deal with environmental law as relates to specific activities and sectors: (i) Agribusiness, Forestry and Paper, Ports, railways, highways and Airports Infrastructure, Real Estate and Natural and Genetic Resources Department; (ii) Energy and Mining Department; (iii) Solid Waste Department; and (iv) Criminal Environmental Law Department.

All of them operate under the supervision of senior partner Professor Édis Milaré and partner Lucas Tamer Milaré, including the International and Comparative Law Department.

The Agribusiness, Forestry and Paper, Mining and Steel, Ports, Airports, Railways and Highways Infrastructure, Real Estate, Due Diligence and Natural and Genetic Resources Department is coordinated by Leading Lawyer Maria Clara Rodrigues Alves Gomes.

The Energy and Mining and Energy Infrastructure Department is coordinated by Leading Lawyer Thiago Sales Pereira.

The Contaminated Sites, Cemetery, Oil and Gas, Chemical Industry, Solid Wastes, Transmission, Forestry and Paper, Real Etrate, Highways and Roads, Renewable Energy, ESG, Agriculture and Sanitation Department is coordinated by Leading Lawyer Rubens Silveira Neto, and also counts with Lupércio Alves Cruz de Carvalho.

Milaré Advogados' legal team is highly specialized in providing preventive and litigation legal advice, related to judicial and administrative procedures in the environmental sphere. Furthermore, the Firm drafts bills for the State authorities and offers legal opinions that lead to important decisions in the sector. The team directs business negotiations by participating in auctions (e.g. solar power); engaging with the agencies and authorities for environmental licensing (e.g. engagement of ICMBio in license process); deciding what practices companies should adopt for environmental licensing (e.g. UHE Belo Monte); and applying certain environmental rules to projects, according to their characteristics.

Milaré Advogados' legal team also has extensive experience in obtaining environmental licenses for infrastructure and forestry projects, authorisation to access genetic resources and administrative and court processes in the domain of environmental law. The team has the support of a qualified technical group comprised by engineers, chemists and biologists and handles the most significant environmental law cases in Brazil, involving ports, airports, forestry and paper, contaminated sites, oil and gas, construction, energy and mining.

Because of its outstanding place in the domain, a significant number of lawsuits in Brazil undergo the firm’s meticulous analysis, and its contributions go beyond litigation to provide the grounds for case law and paradigms for the specialized legal arena.

Since last year, based on Professor Édis Milaré’s standing as an Environmental Law expert, the firms has been playing a role in highly complex cases before international courts. These challenges include Comparative International Law as applicable to environmental matters, with comparative analyses of Civil and Common Law. The rulings based on these challenges are expected to have material implications for several other jurisdictions.