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In the year that TELLES celebrates its 30th anniversary and continuing its strategic focus on quality, specialisation and sustainable future, the firm has just announced the empowerment of the Environment and Climate Change Practice. Leading the team is TELLES partner, Ivone Rocha.

Environmental sustainability and climate mitigation, brings demands to all industries, whether primary, secondary or tertiary sectors.
Accompanying this, TELLES strengthens its position in the market with the creation of the Environment and Climate Change independent team in order to fully embrace the legal ecosystem.

TELLES environment and Climate Change team is the result of the vast experience accumulated in the last 30 years, with deep know-how in a range of sectors such as water, waste, the carbon market and climate mitigation. 

Miguel Torres, TELLES’ Managing Partner, states that this restructuring represents another important step in our specialisation strategy with a sectorial focus and comes as a formal recognition of the solid and deep experience that this team has been gathering over the past years througth legal support provided to key industry players on large and complex projects involving several jurisdictions.

For Ivone Rocha, environmental and climate issues require contractual adjustments and new impact analyses in due diligence, and it is essential to have a background in and an integrated vision of each industry. With the autonomisation of the Environment and Climate Change practice, our team is focused on anticipating risks, developing innovative solutions to challenges ahead and providing quick and efficient answers to all the issues that arise.

With the autonomisation of the team, TELLES ensures a higher specialisation of the services provided in this field.

Ivone Rocha is the partner in charge of this team composed of Rui Ferreira de Almeida, Rodrigo Pinto Guimarães, Gonçalo Magro da Luz and Flávia Sampaio, which permanently ensures a specialised follow-up of projects, guaranteeing closer assistance to Clients.

TELLES is a widely recognised Portuguese law firm with a high level of quality and specialization on the most relevant industries and legal services all provided by 120 lawyers.