G-advisory partner Antonio Baena took part in a round table discussion held under the framework of the Introduction to the Electricity market Course organized by Enerclub and held on May 4, 5 and 6. The participants also included Juan Bogas (OMIE), José María González Moya (APPA) and Elena Mateos (Naturgy). Those taking part in the seminar…
Garrigues partners Juan Manuel Cabeza and Javier Fernández Rivaya together with Rafael Domínguez Olivera, chief government lawyer in the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, examine in the Garrigues Sustainable Dialogs series the course taken by green public procurement in Spain. Public procurement governed by green and sustainable selection criteria or conditions increased by…
The Legal 500 has published its first ever Legal 500 Global Green Guide, which showcases the firms with an outstanding contribution to the green transition. Garrigues is one of the three Spanish firms selected from 200 submissions for the list. The Green Guide features key firms advising on issues around climate change and sustainability, while also…
Sustainability in labor relations, which covers aspects such as respect for human rights and responsibility in the value chain of companies, is occupying an increasingly bigger strategic space in corporate agendas. Moreover, future European initiatives on due diligence and decent work, as well as legislative developments in this regard, which are due to be brought…
G-advisory has acted as lenders´ technical advisor (ING, Nomura, Santander and Grupo Cajamar) in the financing of a portfolio of 62 photovoltaic plants located in Spain and owned by Sonnedix, the global independent solar power producer (IPP). The debt value has amounted to EUR 154 million. The scope of works has consisted in carrying out…
The new Royal Decree will incorporate the strategic lines of the EU action plan for the Circular Economy and its implementing measures (2018). August 31, 2018 marked the end of the public consultation period launched by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition on the draft Royal Decree regulating the disposal of waste in landfills to replace Royal Decree 1481/2001….
The legal regime governing contaminated soil in Spain is defined in Contaminated Soil and Waste Law 22/2011, of July 28, 2011, and supplemented in Royal Decree 9/2005, of January 14, 2005, establishing the list of potentially soil-contaminating activities and the criteria and standards for a declaration of contaminated soil. Order PRA/1080/2017, of November 2, 2017, amending Schedule I of…
Ministerial Order APM/1040/2017, of 23 October, establishing the deadline for the creation of compulsory financial guarantees for the activities set out in annex III of Law 26/2007, of 23 October, on Environmental Liability, has recently been approved, containing an essential requirement for the exercise of certain professional activities which cause or threaten to produce imminent environmental…
The second edition of Metallic Mining Hall, on course to become the largest metallic mining congress held in Europe every two years, took place in Seville on October 17, 18 and 19. Metallic mining has seen a resurgence in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula and is currently, and will be in the future, a…
