We help clients with:
BUSINESS OPERATIONS & TRANSACTIONS
- Business formation, organization, and structuring
- Corporate finance
- Private placement of company securities
- Mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, joint ventures, and strategic alliances
- Intellectual property protection
- Equipment purchases and leasing
- Labor and employment issues
- Environmental insurance
- Day-to-day business operations issues
- Environmental issues in the context of corporate transactions
- Oil and gas exploration, production, processing, and transportation issues and agreements
- Midstream operations and facilities
- Oilfield services
- Mining and mine safety
- Service and vendor contracts
REAL ESTATE & ENVIRONMENTAL
- Real estate and facilities acquisitions, development, leasing, and sales
- Project siting, land use, and zoning permits and approvals
- Land use, zoning, entitlements, and construction
- Due diligence, environmental site assessments, and environmental impact reviews
- Brownfields redevelopment
- Environmental issues in the context of real estate, M&A, divestiture, and other corporate transactions
- Remediation
- Solid waste, landfills, and hazardous waste issues
REGULATORY
Compliance with the many and varied applicable federal, state, and local regulations, including:
- Clean Air Act, air rights, and air quality issues
- Clean Water Act, water rights, and water quality issues
- Toxic substance and pesticide regulation
- CERCLA, RCRA, and state regulations
- OSHA and MSHA workplace health and safety issues and compliance
- Environmental audits, investigations, and enforcement actions
- Advocacy before regulatory bodies
- Due diligence and environmental impact reviews
- Permits, approvals, and licenses
- Spill response and reporting
- Regulatory rulemaking proceedings and enforcement actions
LITIGATION & ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION
- Civil actions under federal and state environmental laws, including cost recovery litigation under Superfund/CERCLA, RCRA, and state equivalents
- Bankruptcies and restructurings
- Contract, accident, construction, and other litigation