Toby Chun

Practice Areas

Co-Head of the Firm’s Environmental Practice, Toby Chun has served as lead environmental counsel for many private equity firms and public companies on some of their most environmentally challenging transactions. Toby’s practice focuses on managing the environmental aspects of a wide variety of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital markets offerings, acquisition financing, and real estate transactions. Drawing upon his experience working on hundreds of transactions spanning a diverse range of businesses and industries in the United States and around the world, 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 assess and appropriately contextualize known and potential liabilities, 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, 2021-2023.