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Environment - France
What the Team is Known For
FIDAL offers expertise in all environmental issues relating to brownfield developments, including the drafting of environmental impact assessments and the allocation of remediation costs. The team assists clients with the sale and acquisition of former industrial sites and the associated legal proceedings. The law firm is well versed in permitting issues. The lawyers also act for multinational corporates on compliance with REACH and EU waste regulations. The clients benefit from the wide geographical coverage and local knowledge provided by its network of offices over the French territory.
Strengths
They supported us in very diverse and complex cases, and their advice allowed us to make positive progress.
They have excellent experience in this subject matter, and the lawyers always come back to us very quickly and are very flexible to our requests, which makes us feel very important as a client.
The rigour demonstrated by the team made it possible to deal with complex cases with high stakes.
Work Highlights
FIDAL represented ACIAL in a dispute over liability for pollution of an industrial site.
Notable practitioners
Christophe Puel advises on a range of environment matters, including regulatory issues, industrial site closures and remediation mandates.
Christophe has been fantastic to work with.