Gregory J Battista

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Gregory J. Battista leads Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP's environmental practice group. Greg advises clients on environmental matters relating to mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, and debt and equity offerings.

Greg has over 30 years of experience handling environmental matters, including those related to risk analysis, federal and state compliance, remediation and corporate transactions. He regularly advises clients in a variety of areas including: EHS compliance and litigation matters, site investigation and clean-up, SEC disclosure, sustainability strategy and reporting, climate change regulation, government enforcement and administrative proceedings, OSHA matters, auditing, supply chain risk, real estate development projects, and due diligence with respect to financing, M&A and other corporate matters.

Earlier in his career, Greg was General Counsel of LRN Corporation, a Senior Environmental Attorney at an AMLaw100 firm, a Deputy Director for the New Jersey Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Commission and an Assistant Director at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.