Practices and Sectors

• Administrative Law
• Environment
• ESG Criteria and Climate Change Regulation
• Telecom

Profile

Antoni joined the firm as Counsel in 2023, and has more than 12 years of experience in the field of public and environmental law.

Between 2010 and 2022 he developed his career in a well-known Spanish law firm, and between 2022 and 2023 he worked in a Big Four firm as the director for the environmental law area in Spain.

Studies:

• 2017 Master of Laws (LL.M), King’s College London
• 2010 Degree in Law, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• 2008 Degree in Economy, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

He speaks Spanish, English and Catalan.

Experience 

Antoni regularly advises industrial companies and firms operating in regulated sectors on all kinds of administrative and environmental law issues.

As for his environmental law practice, Antoni advises on industrial activities subject to high levels of administrative intervention, in particular in relation to the development and modification of industrial facilities, concessions and authorisations (water, mines, coasts and ports), contaminated land and waste management disputes, industrial safety and challenging environmental taxes.

He also has extensive experience in public-private partnerships in the field of infrastructures and public services, especially in relation in the integral water cycle services, transport infrastructures and works of various kinds, as well as in the waste management sector. In this regard, Antoni has been involved in the incorporation of public-private joint ventures as well as in disputes arising from works and service concessions.

Antoni also advises companies from different sectors on extended producer responsibility, projects linked to the circular economy and companies’ environmental sustainability.

His practice covers regulatory advice in the context of M&A transactions as well as project finance.

In the litigation field, he participates in contentious-administrative proceedings, civil lawsuits with a regulatory or environmental component, as well as in accounting liability proceedings before the Court of Auditors.

Academic and publishing collaborations

• Master’s degree for Access to the Legal Profession, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (academic year 2021).
• Master’s degree in Advanced Public Procurement, Universitat de Barcelona (academic years 2021 and 2022).

In addition, he has contributed to the following articles:

• “Consideraciones sobre el Proyecto de reglamento de reutilización de las aguas y el nuevo modelo legal de fomento de la economía circular del agua”, Revista Técnica de Medio Ambiente, nº. 252, enero/febrero 2024, (p.158-164)
• “El nuevo protagonismo de los SCRAP y su difícil encaje con el régimen de los servicios públicos de gestión de residuos”, Expansión, 3 November 2023.
• “Contribución al nuevo régimen de suelos y aguas subterráneas contaminadas. Problemática derivada de la aplicación conjunta del régimen de suelos contaminados y de residuos” (co-authored with Juan Antonio Loste), La Ley, no. 9699, 2020.
• “Principales novedades introducidas por las Leyes 39/2015 y 40/2015 en materia de procedimiento administrativo y régimen jurídico de las Administraciones públicas”, Actualidad jurídica Uría Menéndez no. 41, October-December 2015, pp. 85-95.
• “Construyendo un modelo colombiano de infraestructuras”, Notimérica, 5 March 2015.
• “La constitución de Philippi Prietocarrizosa & Uría”, La República, 8 January 2015.

Professional organisations

The Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).

Board Member of the Administrative Law Section of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).