Environmental Transactions

Weil’s Environmental Transactions lawyers are an integral part of the Firm’s Corporate practice, possessing significant experience analyzing the environmental aspects of acquisitions, divestitures, financings, restructurings and securities offerings in a broad spectrum of business sectors throughout the world.

Notable Representations, Key Contacts

Environmental matters often present some of the most difficult, technical and potentially significant issues that arise in corporate transactions. Strict liability regimes, combined with complex and ever-changing regulatory requirements and increasing public awareness of environmental and sustainability concerns, can create tangible business risks and opportunities for companies and their investors. Our highly skilled and experienced lawyers have a thorough understanding of how environmental matters can and do affect businesses – from a financial and reputational perspective – and an impressive track record of developing creative solutions to address environmental risks and capture environmental opportunities in a transactional context.

Weil attorneys are experienced at identifying, quantifying and contractually allocating environmental liabilities that may arise in the context of domestic and cross-border transactions, including equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, infrastructure projects and financing transactions. We represent buyers, sellers, lenders, investment banks and investors, including private equity firms and financial institutions as well as other businesses in all phases of corporate and real estate transactions. Weil offers a full range of transactional services, including conducting and coordinating due diligence investigations of potential environmental liabilities; quantifying those liabilities in the context of the clients’ overall business strategy; advising on and negotiating contract provisions, disclosures and environmental insurance policies; and transitioning environmental functions at target entities into acquiror business structures. We also are adept at facilitating financing in debt and equity markets, and frequently assist clients in preparing environmental disclosures required under various securities laws and capital market requirements. In addition, Weil attorneys are skilled at identifying emerging business opportunities and risks associated with changing environmental policy, including those relating to unconventional oil and gas production, renewable energy development and greenhouse gas regulation.

Key Contacts

Annemargaret Connolly

Partner

Washington, D.C.

+1 202 682 7037
annemargaret.connolly@weil.com

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Annemargaret Connolly Named NLJ Energy & Environmental “Trailblazer” in 2016 Firm Announcement — June 7, 2016

Ranked Band 1 for Environment: Mainly Transactional in District of Columbia

Chambers USA 2019

Ranked Tier 1 for Environment: Transactional

Legal 500 US 2019

Environmental Head Annemargaret Connolly Ranked Band 1 in District of Columbia for Environment: Mainly Transactional

Chambers USA 2019

Environmental Head Annemargaret Connolly Named “Best in Environment”

Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Americas Women in Business Law Awards 2017

Environmental Head Annemargaret Connolly Named Energy & Environmental “Trailblazer”

National Law Journal 2016

Environmental Head Annemargaret Connolly Named Environmental “MVP”

Law360 2016

Named National Tier 1 Environmental Law Practice

U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” Survey 2019*

* Best Lawyers (in America) is by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners

Awards and Recognition, Speaking Engagements, Latest Thinking, Firm News & Announcements, Firm News & Announcements, Latest Thinking

Awards and Recognition

Weil Ranked Band 1 for Environment: Mainly Transactional in District of Columbia Award Brief — Chambers USA 2019
Weil Ranked Tier 1 for Environment: Transactional Award Brief — Legal 500 US 2019
Annemargaret Connolly Ranked Band 1 in District of Columbia for Environment: Mainly Transactional Award Brief — Chambers USA 2019
Annemargaret Connolly Profiled as a 2016 MVP: Environmental Award Brief — Law360 2016
Annemargaret Connolly Named NLJ Energy & Environmental “Trailblazer” in 2016 Award Brief — National Law Journal 2016
Named National Tier 1 Environmental Law Practice Award Brief — U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms” Survey 2019 (Best Lawyers (in America) is by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners)

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Speaking Engagements

14th Annual Environmental Transactional Roundtable Speaker(s): Thomas D Goslin
May 18, 2018 — Washington, D.C. — Weil counsel Thomas Goslin spoke on a panel titled “Creative Compromises: Negotiating Environmental Settlements in Bankruptcies” as part of the 14th Annual Environmental Transactional Roundtable.
ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources’ 46th Spring Conference Speaker(s): Annemargaret Connolly
March 31, 2017 — Los Angeles, California — Annemargaret Connolly presents on, “After the Deal is Done: What Can Go Wrong Post-Closing,” at the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources’ 46th Spring Conference. The panel discusses issues that may arise after a deal is closed including cost allocations, dispute resolution, environmental insurance and indemnity provision implementation, and also examines issues that can arise under federal environmental laws, California’s Land Reuse and Revitalization Act, among other topics.

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Firm News & Announcements

Weil Advised Banks on Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s Acquisition of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Deal Brief — August 08, 2019
Weil Advises Cornell Capital and KDC/ONE in KDC’s Acquisition of Swallowfield’s Manufacturing Business Deal Brief — July 16, 2019
Weil Advised H&R Block in its $405M Acquisition of Wave Financial Deal Brief — July 01, 2019
Weil Advised Aterian Investment Partners in its Acquisition of Hain Pure Protein from The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. Deal Brief — July 01, 2019
Weil Advised Ideal Tridon in its Acquisition of ZSI-Foster, LLC Deal Brief — July 01, 2019

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Latest Thinking

Lender Liability Under Environmental Laws in Real Estate Transactions Publication — Lexis Practice Advisor — By Annemargaret Connolly and Matthew D. Morton — PDF — Winter 2017
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