Ranked in 1 Practice Areas
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Band 1

Environment

South West

10 Years Ranked

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Provided by Matthew Germain

UK

Practice Areas

Real estate

Environment

Infrastructure services

Energy

Regulatory and compliance

Career

Matthew is a Partner and Head of Environment.

He is ranked in the leading UK legal directories for environmental law and acts for a broad range of clients across a number of sectors, including waste and recycling, real estate, renewables, utilities, tech, media and comms, banking, private equity and retail.

Matthew’s core areas of expertise include environmental liability in complex corporate and real estate transactions, environmental crime, waste and bioenergy projects, infrastructure projects, climate change and sustainability regulation and waste producer responsibility law.

On environmental crime, he has acted on significant Environment Agency prosecutions in the UK courts and on waste producer responsibility he regularly advises US corporates on European and UK law. His work in the waste and bioenergy sector focuses on long-term waste contracts, including RDF export, landfill disposal and fuel supply for biomass, AD and energy from waste projects.

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Matthew Germain is highly knowledgeable on environmental matters pertaining to energy and infrastructure projects, as well as providing regulatory compliance advice in relation to waste, water and climate change issues. He also assists clients facing investigation and enforcement action by the Environment Agency.

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