Environmental Transactions

Weil’s environmental group is an integral part of the Firm’s corporate practices and regularly advises on environmental matters associated with transactions. Clients engage the group to guide their largest and most sophisticated deals that require resolution of complex environmental issues. Outside of transactions, the group’s lawyers advise on environmental regulatory compliance, climate change, sustainability, environmental litigation, international climate treaties, and contractual disputes. Clients rely on Weil’s environmental group for technical knowledge of environmental laws, practical advice on dealing with regulatory agencies and regimes, and creative and commercial savviness in allocating environmental liabilities in transactions.

Weil’s environmental group has experience assessing environmental issues in almost every industry, whether it be manufacturing, chemicals, energy, natural resources, waste management, pharmaceutical or otherwise. Weil’s environmental group has analyzed the environmental aspects of thousands of transactions in all major business sectors and regularly provides comprehensive support to sellers, buyers, lenders and investors. Each member of the practice group, be it partner, counsel or associate, works on all major transactions. The group’s transactional, regulatory, and litigation experience is helpful when advising on sustainability. Weil’s environmental group works regularly on sustainability and climate-related disclosures, renewable energy projects, carbon dioxide removal transactions and other projects relating to energy transition and decarbonization.

Weil’s environmental lawyers proactively manage environmental deal considerations, mitigate risk, and craft innovative solutions in agreements. The group takes a proactive and commercial approach to managing complicated environmental risks and liabilities in complex, high-value transactions. Along with large value deals, Weil’s environmental group advises on matters that are of smaller value but which are driven by environmentally sensitive issues. Weil’s attorneys take the time to learn the client’s perspective and use that information to develop creative approaches to structuring transactions. The environmental group attorneys are particularly skilled at taking complex technical facts and decoding them into strategic advice that clients can utilize and manage alongside other transaction issues. The environmental group has an impressive track record of identifying, quantifying and contractually allocating environmental liabilities that may arise in the context of domestic and cross-border transactions, and developing creative solutions to mitigate these risks.