Toby Chun
USA Guide 2023
Band 2 : Environment: Mainly Transactional
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About
Provided by Toby Chun
Practice Areas
Toby Chun is Co-Head of the Firm’s Environmental Practice. His practice focuses on managing the environmental aspects of corporate and real estate practices, with experience across a diverse range of businesses and industries in the United States and around the world. Formerly a partner in Kirkland & Ellis’s Environmental Transactional Practice Group, Toby has served as lead environmental counsel for many private equity firms and public companies on some of their most environmentally challenging transactions. Drawing upon his experience managing the environmental aspects of hundreds of transactions spanning a diverse range of industries, Toby helps his clients achieve their business objectives by evaluating the environmental risks and liabilities associated with target companies and properties, working with environmental consultants to analyze and contextualize known and potential liabilities in a thorough and balanced manner, negotiating transaction documents on environmental terms consistent with his client’s goals, helping to optimize environmental insurance coverage, managing the resolution of environmental issues, and keeping abreast of the latest developments for emerging contaminants and other environmental topics.
Career
Rated AV Preeminent in Martindale-Hubbell; Recognized as a leading lawyer in Who’s Who Legal: Environment; Recognized for Environment: Transactional in The Legal 500
Professional Memberships
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association; APABA-DC
Personal
University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1996; Stanford University, M.S., Environmental Engineering and Science, 1993; Stanford University, B.S., Biological Sciences, 1992.
Teaching Experience: Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, Environmental Transactions and Bankruptcy, 2022 and 2021.