Vanessa Chávarry

Practice Areas

Vanessa is Partner of the firm, who leads the environmental area, specializing in environmental law and sustainability issues. She has broad experience in environmental law, both in analytical and practical aspects of general and sectorial environmental regulations.

Career

Her professional practice is focused on providing legal advice on environmental and social issues related to all productive sectors with an emphasis on agriculture, industry, transportation, fishing and aquaculture, mining, electricity, among others; both in the defense of administrative sanctioning procedures and in advising on the design and implementation of environmental management strategies for prevention, mitigation, remediation or environmental compensation.

Prior to joining the firm, she worked at the Ombudsman´s Office in environmental and indigenous issues.

Professional Memberships

Callao Bar Association - National Law Institute of Mining, Petroleum and Energy (INDEMIPE) - International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) - Advisory Council of the Environmental Law Team of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (EDERA) in the period 2021 – 2023.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Peru

Languages Spoken

English and Spanish.

Publications

Legal regulations for the development of extractive activities in Latin America: comparative analysis (Instituto de Ciencias de la Naturaleza, Territorio y Energías Renovables – PUCP, 2015) - Business and Society: an approach to socio-environmental conflicts in mining (Journal No. 6, Administrative Law Circle of the PUCP Law School, 2008) - She has written articles on environmental and mining law in specialized journals and she has prepared comparative legislation studies in such topics. Vanessa has been a speaker at international forums on topics of her expertise.

Education