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    Juan Carlos Cardoso

    Principal Associate

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    Juan Carlos is an urban planner lawyer with over 25 years of experience, specializing in planning, execution and urban discipline.

    Throughout his extensive career, he has advised and defended real estate developers in administrative and judicial proceedings - holding positions such as land director - associations of promoters - as the head of urban planning - construction companies, landowners, compensation boards, collaborating urban entities and public administrations. His practice ranges from the drafting and processing of planning instruments (general plans, partial plans, detailed studies) to their execution (land readjustment projects, expropriations) and urban discipline files, including licenses, responsible declarations, sanctions and restoration of legality.

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