Chambers Review
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Climate Change - Global Market Leaders
What the Team is Known For
Pollination Law is a boutique firm specialising in climate change advice, offering expertise to a variety of clients in local and cross-border climate issues. The law firm offers:
• Expertise located in the USA and Australia providing compliance assistance as well as assistance with decarbonisation efforts.
• Experience working with a client base comprising governments, corporates and private companies, especially on projects in African and Asian jurisdictions.
• Highly regarded expertise in carbon finance, often assisting clients with multi-jurisdictional carbon trading and credit schemes.
Strengths
Pollination stands out because they take a multidisciplinary approach, seeing beyond the black-and-white of the law to understand the real-world complexities of environmental and carbon issues.
They provide market advisory expertise, risk management and reduction, as well as policy and regulatory advice. We've always been able to find reasonable solutions with the Pollination Law team.
They are probably one of the top firms globally when it comes to carbon and climate.
Notable practitioners
He is recognised as a leading practitioner, incredibly well respected and is often called upon to conduct government reviews of legislation and policy services.
Rick Saines is very sharp, knowledgeable about the area and turns around advice very quickly.
He is fabulous - very strong on policy development and structuring for investments. He is just incredibly passionate about achieving great outcomes.
Rick is a pioneer and trusted advisor. He is thoughtful and also fun to work with.
Marisa Martin Lewandowski is a Managing Director and Head of the US team. She is highly experienced in advisory mandates for government and private bodies regarding climate policy as well as financing projects for carbon offset.
She is fantastic, plays really straight, is pragmatic and I rate her. She has depth of expertise in this sector.
Marisa is a leader with high attention to detail. She thinks proactively about your needs and is a great partner in risk management.
Marisa is very strong in climate change matters and a leader in this field.