Environment

CDH's Environmental Law practice has extensive experience in legal compliance, due diligence investigations, ISO 14001 implementation, environmental impact assessments (EIAs), environmental litigation and legislative drafting, administrative appeal and objections, environmental law related contractual drafting and reviews, agriculture and developing electronic environmental management systems. We also advise extensively on health and safety, land use and heritage law. Our clients are drawn from the agriculture, energy (including renewable energy), banking, property development, petrochemical, pulp and paper, waste management, mining and manufacturing sectors as well as from all three spheres of government in South Africa and elsewhere in the Southern and East African region.

CDH offers practical and focused advice on all areas of environmental legal compliance. Where clients are not legally compliant with the law, we assist in developing programmes for achieving compliance within realistic time frames. Environmental concerns are increasingly important in mergers and acquisitions; and in large commercial transactions such as renewable energy projects under the Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme. Our team works together with scientists and environmental consultants to distinguish areas of genuine concern from non-material issues and to assess their implications for a deal.