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Provided by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates
The environmental practice of Skadden offers transaction, litigation and regulatory counseling for a wide range of environmental issues. For more than 25 years, we have helped clients forge strategic and practical approaches to environmental matters that maximize business opportunities and minimize risk.
We have advised clients with respect to environmental risks and opportunities in thousands of corporate transactions. In the past two years alone, Skadden’s attorneys have advised on the environmental aspects of more than 500 mergers, asset sales, joint ventures, financings and offerings for clients in a wide variety of business sectors worldwide, including manufacturing, energy and mining, chemical and petrochemical, health care and pharmaceutical, communications, electronics and hi-tech, infrastructure, and real estate.
Skadden’s environmental practice has extensive experience helping clients achieve strategic resolutions of contested, high-stakes contamination, regulatory and enforcement matters, often achieving summary dismissal or an early and favorable settlement. Our attorneys represent clients on environmental matters in federal and state trial courts and appellate courts, before federal and state administrative agencies, and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings nationwide and internationally.
We have frequently counseled clients on a wide variety of compliance and regulatory matters and strategic business opportunities and solutions.
