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Luis Alberto Esparza Romero is founder partner and managing partner of Laer Abogados. Mr Esparza specialises in Environmental Law and Sustainability. After 12 years in Gonzalez Calvillo, S.C., he decided to initiate a private practice incorporating LAER Abogados, S.C., a boutique dedicated to Environmental, Administrative and Regulatory Law matters.
Mr Esparza has almost 24 years of experience and is recognised in handling Environmental Impact, Waters Law, Waste Management, Soil Contamination, Climate Change and Forestry Law. His expertise also covers Environmental Legal Audits in order to create base line and risk scenarios to design and implement high level compliance strategies. He is recognised for attending environmental, administrative and regulatory legal aspects in project finance.
Mr Esparza has extended his experience to International Environmental Law and counselling in the implementation and fulfilment of the Equator Principles. He is experienced in guiding towards designing and implementing complex strategies to achieve sustainability, including the development of public consultation and hearings based under the guidelines created by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation to comply with the Equator Principles.
Admitted: (Mexico) 1999
Education and Experience:
Luis Alberto Esparza is a licensed attorney who obtained his Law degree from Universidad de las Americas, A.C. and a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Humanities by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; he also obtained a specialisation in Environmental Impact by the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, a Diploma in Environmental Business by the ITAM and a Diploma on Equator Principles. He is a recurrent lecturer at several universities in Mexico and other professional forums where he has spoken on such issues as environmental audit to the financial statements of companies, climate change, renewable energy and biofuels as well as general environmental law topics such as constitutional environmental law.
Key Clients and Representative Matters:
IBM: Representing IBM in the development of electronic special handling wastes in order to implement a take back system to recover equipment leased by IBM to diverse companies, elaboration of the agreements to incorporate third parties to the program, at the time of including the last modifications made to COP 8th of the Stockholm Convention. Support giving during the COVID Crises in order to develop the legal arguments in terms of which Mexican Government classified the activities performed by IBM as essentials and, therefore, hindering, the possibility of closure of the Technological Campus of said corporation.
Grupo Porcicola Mexicano: A subsidiary of Grupo KUO (Mexican company with presence in 70 countries worldwide); environmental legal advisors for the whole activities related to environmental legal matters, including water and wastewater management; Grupo Porcícola Mexicano also known as KEKEN is the main exporter of Mexican pork meat to the Asian Markets.
The CHEMOURS Company: LAER Abogados, S.C., represents The Chemours Company Mexico in two of its main businesses in Mexico, the environmental legal matters of the Titanium Dioxide plant, as well as the activities associated to the import quotas imposed by the Mexican Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources, as well as in the advice of site restoration.
