Lana Finney

Lana is an accomplished environmental lawyer, litigator and a certified specialist in environmental law.

She advises clients on environmental considerations in acquisition and sale transactions, provides strategic solutions relating to contaminated sites and remediation, and helps to navigate the assessment, permit and environmental approval processes. Her experience also includes advising Canadian and international companies on transactional representation and warranty insurance. She also provides guidance to clients on Canada’s various chemical regulatory regimes, including the recently introduced reporting regimes for plastics and PFAS, as well as provincial and territorial extended producer responsibility legislation.

Lana regularly defends clients charged with environmental and regulatory offences under federal and provincial legislation, appeals remediation orders to the Ontario Land Tribunal, and defends and prosecutes environmental litigation claims by landlords, tenants and property owners before the Ontario courts.

Lana’s practice also focuses on renewable-energy projects, infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships, where she has extensive experience providing specialized environmental and regulatory advice related to project agreements and permitting.