• Héctor Rodríguez Molnar, Senior Partner, Madrid Office.

• Two Associates, one in each office.

General Description of the Firm's Expertise.

The firm develops a quite intense activity in environmental matters, a field where the senior partner, Mr. Rodríguez Molnar, has been personally involved since 1985 at both national and international level.

Environmental activities account for some 30% of the total legal work done by this firm and such percentage is expanding. The firm regularly advices leading US and european companies on international corporate environmental matters.

The firm's practice always gives special consideration to the environmental factors involved in any industrial activity, so that clients are permanently in compliance with European Union and spanish environmental regulations.

The firm has contacts with representative law firms in the main western and central european countries.

Illustrative Projects.

Environmental projects in which the firm has worked include

• Advice to a european petroleum company on petrochemical liabilities applicable to a spanish facility.

• Preparation of an EH&S Protocol for a US engineering company. Preparation of legislative updates.

• Establishment of an Environmental Health and Safety Protocol for a US multinational company. The work involved the preparation of Water, Chemical, Air, Waste, Emergency Response and Training Work Plans.

• Pre-acquisition Environmental reports for U.S. and other foreign investors intending to acquire spanish companies. In one of the matters, including advice on remediation measures under the National Plan for Recovery of Contaminated Sites.

• Advice on liability issues related to the

  1. Production of pharmaceuticals;

  2. Importation of Hazardous Waste; domestic and cross border transportation of Hazardous Waste.

   

• EH&S Audit of two facilities of a U.S. electronics multinational corporation (Madrid).

• Advice to a company based in a third country on procedures to secure and maintain approval for pesticides to be marketed within the EU.

• Research work for a japanese multinational company in connection with the implementation of the Spanish regulatory framework on asbestos risks.

• In cooperation with a major london firm, advice to an international organisation on the implementation in Spain of the EU Habitats Directive and advice to a UK client on the implementation of the Landfill Directive in Spain

• EHS Audit of a Madrid based manufacturing plant of two US laboratories.

• Preparation of  National Environmental, Health & Safety Data Bases geared to the needs of industrial facilities.

• Advice to a US corporation on the assessment of different sites located throughout Spain with a view to acquiring a Spanish company