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Environment: Mainly Transactional | USA
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Senior Statespeople
Band 1
Adeeb R Fadil Massumi + Consoli LLP22 Years Ranked
Betty Moy Huber Latham & Watkins LLP19 Years Ranked
David S Langer Latham & Watkins LLP14 Years Ranked
Ken Rivlin A&O Shearman19 Years Ranked
Loyti Cheng Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP20 Years Ranked
Matthew J Brennan Sullivan & Cromwell LLP22 Years Ranked
Matthew Morreale Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP16 Years Ranked
Seth Kerschner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP12 Years Ranked
Stuart Hammer Debevoise & Plimpton LLP22 Years Ranked
Band 2
Annmarie M Terraciano Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP14 Years Ranked- Donna Mussio Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP10 Years Ranked
Gregory J Battista Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP13 Years Ranked
Hayden S Baker White & Case LLP14 Years Ranked
Jason Pratt A&O Shearman13 Years Ranked
Jeffrey L Salinger DLA Piper LLP (US)18 Years Ranked
John Rousakis O'Melveny & Myers LLP14 Years Ranked- Matthew Ahrens Milbank LLP17 Years Ranked
Michael Isby Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP17 Years Ranked
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Aliza R. Cinamon Proskauer Rose LLP9 Years Ranked
Andrew J Perel Troutman Pepper Locke LLP4 Years Ranked
David Zilberberg Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP2 Years Ranked
Felise Cooper A&O Shearman12 Years Ranked
Jean-Philippe Brisson Latham & Watkins LLP15 Years Ranked
Lynn Schmidt Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP8 Years Ranked
Maureen Crough Sidley Austin LLP21 Years Ranked
Michael Comstock Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP5 Years Ranked
Michael Saretsky Kirkland & Ellis LLP2 Years Ranked
William O'Brien Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP6 Years Ranked
Up and Coming
All Departments profiles
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1 A&O ShearmanEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 1 | 25 Years RankedA&O Shearman LLP performs environmental due diligence on finance transactions, such as capital markets deals, credit facilities and refinancings. Also offers environmental compliance and risk management advice on cross-border corporate and real estate transactions. Acts for financial institutions and companies with substantial commercial and industrial premises. Strong international presence in both the UK and the European Union.
1 Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 1 | 22 Years RankedCravath, Swaine & Moore LLP is a compact group known for its attentive service. Advises an enviable corporate clientele on the environmental aspects of acquisitions and other complex transactions. Additional capacity to support projects after deal closure and assist with dispute resolution. Provides environmental strategic counsel to clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, petroleum and energy generation. Regularly handles cross-border matters and transactions.
1 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 1 | 22 Years RankedDavis Polk & Wardwell LLP has an experienced team skilled in a diverse range of environmentally impacted transactions and financings on both a national and international platform. Expertise includes disclosure and reporting requirements for capital markets transactions, complex M&A and project finance. Other areas of strength include know-how in environmental insurance issues and climate change regulations. Also houses a disputes team which frequently handles challenges to the allocation of environmental risk among private parties. Highly regarded for its work in the alternative energy space.
1 Latham & Watkins LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 1 | 10 Years RankedLatham & Watkins LLP offers a New York City-based team with a longstanding practice advising on the treatment of environmental liabilities and risk in corporate and real estate transactions. Noted for deep expertise with regard to Superfund proceedings, compliance with all relevant state and federal statutes concerning toxic emissions and enforcement actions filed by government agencies. Outstanding national reputation in emerging climate change and emissions issues.
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2 Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 2 | 16 Years RankedCahill Gordon & Reindel LLP offers a distinguished team with extensive experience advising prominent lenders and underwriters on major financial and corporate transactions. High level of expertise in health and safety concerns, as well as in environmental compliance and risk management. Deep knowledge of site remediation and SEC disclosure.
2 Debevoise & Plimpton LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 2 | 22 Years RankedDebevoise & Plimpton LLP offer a highly regarded team closely associated with the firm's corporate group. Provides analysis and due diligence on a range of high-value transactions and financings. Advises a wide array of domestic and international clients, including private equity firms, large businesses and financial institutions. Notable strength in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, construction and real estate industries.
2 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 2 | 22 Years RankedSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has a highly regarded team offering liability management and environmental compliance counsel on M&A. Particularly well known in the private equity space and frequently advises on sophisticated projects with a variety of environmental implications. Vast industry experience in the food and heavy manufacturing sectors as well as in power generation and transmission, oil and gas pipelines, agrochemicals and forestry.
2 Sullivan & Cromwell LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 2 | 22 Years RankedSullivan & Cromwell LLP has an impressive track record handling environmental liability and due diligence mandates for a whole range of corporate matters, including M&A, securities offerings and restructurings. Also offers a leading litigation team with capability to handle cross-border disputes. Assists clients in a variety of industries, including petroleum, mining, pharmaceuticals and food. Known for its particularly strong following among automobile manufacturers.
2 White & Case LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 2 | 22 Years RankedWhite & Case LLP advises public and private bodies on environmental regulation and transactional matters. Frequently represents energy, chemical and pharmaceutical companies on a range of matters including M&A, financings and public offerings. Additionally draws on significant knowledge on climate change regulations and offers clients a strong environmental litigation team. Litigation work frequently relates to contaminated sites, environmental compliance and insurance coverage issues.
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3 DLA Piper LLP (US)Environment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 3 | 1 Years RankedDLA Piper's environmental transactional group is skilled at mitigating risk on large transactions. The team has experience working with a range of industries such as commercial real estate, pharmaceuticals and manufacturers. The team is abreast of environmental regulations, offering services on emerging risks such as PFAS and complex contaminants.
3 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 3 | 14 Years RankedFried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson is a popular choice for environmental transactional counsel. Regularly handles M&A, bankruptcy and project development proceedings with particularly complex environmental aspects. Also noted for advising clients on an array of regulatory and compliance issues.
3 Kirkland & Ellis LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 3 | 2 Years RankedKirkland & Ellis' Environmental Practice Group is renowned for its expertise in handling complex environmental matters worldwide. With a focus on litigation, regulatory counseling, and transactional knowledge, the team helps clients navigate compliance, manage crises, and handle bankruptcy-related environmental issues effectively.
3 O'Melveny & Myers LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 3 | 16 Years RankedO'Melveny & Myers LLP offers a strong team possessing vast experience in documentation advice as well as health and safety counsel on significant transactions, financings and restructurings. Undertakes due diligence and advises on the environmental aspects of transactions involving industrial assets of all kinds. Relied upon by private equity firms to ensure all environmental risk and compliance requirements are properly assessed.
3 Proskauer Rose LLPEnvironment: Mainly Transactional2025 | Band 3 | 12 Years RankedProskauer Rose LLP provides liability and impact analysis with respect to M&A, capital markets and financing transactions involving companies and facilities with particularly high environmental risk profiles. Advises on compliance with the full span of regulatory requirements and defends clients in agency enforcement actions and administrative law proceedings. Particularly noted for representing clients in the chemical, pharmaceutical, life sciences and manufacturing industries.