Environmental issues can significantly affect business deals, slow growth, result in massive liability and kill the best of plans. We have experience in a wide variety of environmental issues and can work with you from beginning to end to protect your business and help it grow.
Helping You Take Quick Action
We get to know your business quickly and take decisive action to resolve environmental issues. In recent years we have:
- Negotiated the largest voluntary cleanup in Illinois which was an automotive assembly plant site.
- Represented the site for the Illinois-Kentucky Compact's low level nuclear waste depository.
- Counseled a financing authority on the potential environmental liability for bond financing of a sludge drying facility.
- Completed acquisition due diligence for the multi-state acquisition of a transformer manufacturer.
- Supervised environmental coverage claims and lawsuits for London-based insurers.
- Negotiated successfully with federal, state and local officials on Clean Water Act compliance for a paper mill company, whose fate rested in its ability to adapt to the changing marketplace.
- Conducted a four-state, two-country environmental study for an investment banking firm before they approved a multi-billion dollar IPO.
- Secured necessary permits to build a first U. S. power plant for a foreign-based utility company.
- Formed a crisis management team to help save a food processor faced with a contaminated water supply.
We represent a wide variety of businesses, lenders, policyholders and insurers, both small and large throughout the U. S. and in foreign countries.
Comprehensive Environmental Services
We can help with all your environmental needs from counseling to compliance to transactions and litigation.
Meeting Regulatory Demands We help today's fast-growing companies meet state and federal environmental regulations. We evaluate their environmental issues and guide them through innovative solutions to compliance. We also conduct internal environmental and health and safety audits, assessments and pollution prevention programs.
Negotiating Sophisticated Transactions Environmental concerns play a major role in the success or failure of negotiations when it's time to close a deal. We structure mergers, acquisitions and real estate transactions to reduce environmental risks. When the stakes are high, buyers, sellers and lenders rely on our environmental team's legal, scientific and engineering experience to craft successful transactions.
Catastrophes and Cleanups Timing is critical when reacting to environmental catastrophes and cleanups. We step in to help gain control of the situation and quickly implement the necessary solutions. From aviation and rail disasters to Superfund sites, we ensure that all required emergency actions are followed and that cleanup procedures meet strict guidelines.
Litigation When environmental concerns raise the possibility of legal action, we assess the risks and respond quickly and aggressively to protect our clients. We litigate a wide range of environmental health and safety issues including Superfund cost recovery, environmental insurance recovery, toxic tort litigation, administrative permit appeals and federal and state regulatory compliance.