Environment
“Commentators highlight the team’s grasp of the key business implications at stake in a case or transaction, ensuring that clients are aware of all the risks involved.” Chambers & Partners
Overview
Understanding all you need to know about environmental and waste law is an onerous task. Over the past two decades, every business involved in the waste management industry or with waste production or handling issues, has faced a growing body of environmental regulation.
Similarly, organisations operating potentially polluting activities or owning or occupying brownfield sites face the risk of unexpected costs and liabilities associated with the clean-up of contaminated soil, the remediation of groundwater or the restoration of damaged ecosystems.
So, with so many regulations and risks, how can you ever get to the bottom of what you need to do next?
Our environmental and waste management law team brings a fresh and innovative approach to helping clients from a wide range of business sectors, including waste management, chemical production, manufacturing and engineering, technology, banking, retail, property development, property investment, warehouse and distribution operations, housing, construction and minerals.
Our cross-disciplinary team can advise on a full range of commercial and dispute-related matters including:
- Hazardous substances
- Water pollution
- Contaminated land
- Planning and land development
- Warranties and indemnities
- Corporate compliance
- Waste and landfill management
- Environmental taxation
- PPC permits
- Producer responsibility
- Parliamentary lobbying
- Lender liability
- European law
