We provide highly specialized professional consulting and advice, which integrates legal quality with service quality, based on in-depth knowledge, experience and expertise in the field. We understand our clients’ environmental concerns, guide them as commercial associates and act in defense of their interests.

Our services are based on the skills and judgement differentiated by the specialty, training and commitment of the firm’s professionals, the knowledge, technology and processes deployment to solve challenges and the customer satisfaction, to achieve results and build trust through direct work with managers, executives, professionals and technicians in each client company. We have great knowledge and interactions with stakeholders in environmental issues, especially with the competent environmental authorities.

Our services are based on precaution, prevention and attention to risk from the legal point of view, while identifying the emerging opportunities.

Information, training, due diligence, advisory, consulting, evaluation, auditing, assessment, and/or compliance, outside or inside companies management systems guarantee legal certainty and protection against preventive measures, corrective measures, sanctions, penalties, fines, lawsuits and, in general, environmental liability proceedings, thus protecting their social patrimony, assets, corporate image and reputation.

Legal risk management adequately guides social and environmental responsibility as well as planning and management within organizations, to contribute to the protection of the environment and natural resources, adaptation to climate change and sustainable development. The quality and specialty in the provision of our services allow for a comprehensive and systemic view of law and environment and facilitates an appropriate corporate environmental strategy, which contributes to the valuation and competitiveness of organizations.

Our clients account for consulting services, advice, strategy, legal representation and successful defense in all types of civil and administrative liability proceedings, avoiding preventive measures, corrective measures, sanctions, fines, repairs and remedies, all of which constitute matters where our firm has numerous and significant cases of success.

With regulatory compliance procedures, risk is managed from a criminal point of view while taking into consideration the risk of lifting of corporate veil.

Through our understanding of the environmental issues companies face, our clients have achieved significant reductions in assessment and monitoring costs and fees, environmental taxes, offsets, and other contributions; the rationalization of environmental management and control instruments; and a rational and efficient use of water, energy, and natural resources; the use and valorization of all types of waste within circular economy and the life cycle of products; the implementation of industrial reconversion processes, clean production, technological improvements, development and environmental innovation; the accreditation and certification of their management systems; access to green markets and recognition through environmental certifications, the obtaining of economic benefits and tax incentives, and, of course, the endorsement of their clients.

Our Firm is headquartered in Barranquilla (Distrito Especial, Industrial y Portuario), located in the wonderful conjunction of the Rio Grande de la Magdalena, Colombia’s main fluvial artery, with the Caribbean Sea, which allows connectivity of our Nation with the region and the world, in the era of globalization.

The vision of the territory allows for a better understanding of environmental problems and the need to contribute to sustainable development. The city’s strategic location and its contribution to development make Álvarez Abogados Ambientales a visionary firm that understands the territory and the environment as a strategy for national and regional development. As such, we are not a local firm; on the contrary, we have a global vision and we are committed to the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals.