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Fasken

Environment

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Provided by Fasken

Fasken provides clients with a comprehensive set of environmental legal services. Whether you are permitting a new project, dealing with a contaminated site, defending charges, challenging orders, litigating on environmental matters, or trading carbon, we can provide practical legal advice, representation and solutions.

We assist clients in dealing with contaminated lands, assisting with remediation, strategies to avoid liability, and litigating over associated liability.

We defend charges laid by regulators and have excellent relationships with the regulators to negotiate resolutions and the strong advocacy skills to successfully challenge those charges.

We help throughout the project approval process, organizing stakeholder consultation hearings and meetings and providing strategic advice. Once the project is launched, we can advise on scalable risk management and sustainability management plans that safeguard your investment.

Our clients include energy, mining, real estate, insurers, financial institutions, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture/aquaculture corporations. We also work with governments and industry associations interested in launching policy initiatives and program reviews.

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Environment - Nationwide - Canada

Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Fasken is a respected law firm with a solid environmental department. The team represents businesses from the energy, mining and transportation sectors, offering substantial expertise across contaminated site management, environmental assessment and risk management, and regulatory compliance in the context of major power projects. It has additional expertise in climate change and carbon trading matters, as well as fisheries and habitat issues. The law firm is also experienced in environmental dispute resolution, both in defending clients against environmental charges and in resolving disputes through arbitration and mediation.

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Work Highlights

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  • Fasken assisted Corporation Financière Champlain in environmental due diligence in relation to its purchase of the assets of Manulift in Canada.

Strengths

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  • Fasken's environmental group takes a client-focused and practical approach to advice. I can trust Fasken to keep the client in mind by looking for the most efficient and economical path to resolution.

    Environment respondentCanada

  • Fasken has very strong knowledge and understanding of our business.

    Environment respondentCanada

  • Fasken has an ability to thoroughly examine and advise on granular issues in a pragmatic and business-minded manner. It maintains and attracts highly knowledgeable and effective legal professionals.

    Environment respondentCanada

  • The depth of the team allows us to have legal advice on complex issues. This is one of the main strengths and an advantage for customers at Fasken.

    Environment respondentCanada

Notable Practitioners

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  • Rosalind Cooper
    Rosalind Cooper

    Rosalind Cooper

    Rosalind Cooper offers substantial experience in environmental matters out of the law firm's Toronto office, with a particular focus on environmental impact assessments and contaminated land litigation.

    • Rosalind Cooper is excellent and at the top of her field. She is very smart and will dig into files despite her senior level.

      Environment respondentCanada

    • Rosalind is very pragmatic and very responsive, which is really important to us. She can communicate with different levels and types of personnel in our operations, which is a beneficial skill.

      Environment respondentCanada

    • Her approach is calculated, smooth and very sophisticated indeed.

      Environment respondentCanada
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  • Pierre-Olivier Charlebois
    Pierre-Olivier Charlebois

    Pierre-Olivier Charlebois

    Montréal-based Pierre-Olivier Charlebois acts across both contentious and commercial mandates in the environmental law space. As leader of Fasken's corporate social responsibility team, he is particularly well-versed in matters relating to the carbon market, including carbon offsets.

    • Pierre-Olivier is an outstanding lawyer and has been of immense benefit to our endeavours.

      Environment respondentCanada

    • Pierre-Olivier is very rigorous, very efficient and responds in a timely manner.

      Environment respondentCanada

    • Pierre-Olivier has a specific expertise in environmental law. He is very knowledgeable and always ready to help.

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