About Us

We are specialists in environmental law

Costa Rican environmental standards have focused on creating integration between development and environmental sustainability, however is strict in demanding that technical parameters in development be applied to productive activities. Since its inception in 1999, BioIuris has worked in the environmental field, integrating a multi-disciplinary work group for legal-environmental assessment and management in the development of projects and legal processes of environmental nature. Our mission is to provide innovative and effective legal solutions to environmental conflicts.

Modern day requires efficient environmental management of public and private enterprises which have resulted in the appearance of a new legal branch called Environmental Law, consisting of a vast amount of legal and technical standards translated into laws, regulations, guidelines and recommendations, etc., whose control is in the hands of multiple governmental entities such as SETENA, SINAC, the Water Department, the Environmental and Administrative Court as well as the Environmental Criminal Courts, among others.

This body of law gives rise to a significant amount of legal requirements that are indispensable to the operation and functioning of enterprises, public or private, regardless of the specific activity and the production process to be developed. Based on the needs of your company, our specialized environmental legal firm, BioIuris, our consultants will be able to provide the following specified services: legal-environmental corporate advisory, evaluation of the environmental risk of the company, oversight and assessment of operations, execution of permits and authorizations, consultation for water issues in order to process and obtain water rights, defining permitted use of land for real estate issues, processing and obtaining concessions in the Terrestrial Maritime Zone, as well as environmental administrative and judicial litigation.