Profile: Federico Ruanova Guinea

Environment

Biography: Environment

Federico Ruanova-Guinea is a partner in the law firm of Baker & McKenzie. He is the coordinator of the firm's environmental practice group in Mexico and also a member of their global environmental and global climate change practice groups. He received his law degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in 1987. Mr Ruanova is a member of the National Corporate Attorneys Association and is licensed to practise law throughout Mexico.

Mr Ruanova specialises in environmental impact and risk permitting, prevention and control of air, water and soil pollution, hazardous substance handling and disposal, climate change, administrative litigation and occupational health and safety. He has considerable experience advising clients in the industrial, infrastructure, energy and resort sectors.

Mr Ruanova-Guinea has written many articles and papers on environmental law, including 'Environmental Liability in Mexico', Environmental Claims Journal (1995); 'Environmental Auditing in Mexico', International Environmental Auditing Handbook (Government Institutes, 1998); 'Mexican Environmental Law' (co-author), Mexican Law: a Treatise for Legal Practitioners and International Investors (West Group, 1998); 'Mexico's Environmental Challenges as the 21st Century Approaches', International Environment Reporter (1999); 'Mexico: Making its Environmental Laws Work', Environmental Law and Policy (1999); 'Will Mexico's new Government be Green?', Mexican Forecast (2000); 'Is the Mexican Environmental Protection Agency acting beyond its Mandate?', Latin American Law and Business Report (2000); 'Study shows Deficiencies in Nine Environmental Laws', Reforma newspaper (2004); 'Why Recent Environmental Restrictions Do Not Contribute to Sustainable Development', Inmobiliare magazine (2007).