Areas of Practice: Corporate Transactions

We offer environmental expertise in corporate transactions, through environmental due diligence and negotiation and contract drafting. We have represented purchasers, sellers and lenders, providing counsel in understanding and evaluating potential risk, and quantifying exposures.

Our corporate experience includes the following:

• Representing a European client who entered into a highly publicized 99-year lease to operate a public airport, the first (and only) privatization of a government-run airport facility (and former military base) in the United States. This transaction and the implementation of the lease continue to raise numerous complex environmental issues, such as allocation of liability, and responsibility for performance of investigatory and remedial work.

• Representing a private equity firm as environmental counsel, performing diligence for a broad range of transactions in a variety of industries, including off-shore oil drilling, concentrated animal feeding and supplying jet fuel.

• Serving as United States environmental counsel for a European manufacturing corporation in its worldwide divestiture of $450 million worth of manufacturing facilities. We performed due diligence disclosure, negotiated contracts and oversaw post-closing remedial and compliance obligations.

• Providing contract negotiation support and performing environmental due diligence for a large transportation company in its purchase of a school bus service operator with facilities and routes in Texas, California and Washington, making our client one of the largest bus operators in the country.

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