Crystal Kennedy

Practice Areas

Crystal Kennedy is a nationally recognized environmental attorney and leads the transactional area of the firm’s environmental practice. She listens to her clients to understand their objectives and provides practical advice to achieve those, often in the face of complex factual and legal issues.

In corporate and real estate transactions, she assists with environmental due diligence, risk analysis, contract negotiations, and use of environmental insurance, cleanup programs, indemnities, escrows and other methods to manage voluntary environmental risk. She also advises developers of industrial, commercial and residential properties on environmental matters, including Brownfield redevelopment projects.

Crystal assists banks and other financing entities with pre-loan due diligence to identify businesses and properties posing significant environmental risk in terms of cleanup liability, ability to repay and impact on collateral value. She advises lenders on the requirements for and application of environmental liability exemptions under federal and state law in the contexts of loan origination, workout and foreclosure.

Crystal is a leader of legal, business and civic organizations. She is a former president of Commercial Real Estate Women of St. Louis (CREW-St. Louis), a former co-chair of the Environmental and Conservation Law Committee of the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (BAMSL) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Missouri Growth Association (MGA). She served for several years on the steering committee of the firm’s Women’s Initiative. She also served two terms as chair of the Board of Directors of Safe Connections, a United Way agency dedicated to reducing the incidence and impact of sexual assault and relationship violence.