Chemicals and Industrials
Environmental Liability Transfer
Managing land contamination and groundwater liabilities often requires coordinated legal, technical and insurance solutions.
- Environmental liability transfer buying, selling and redeveloping contaminated sites.
- Tactics for chemical and waste clients, developers, funders and remediation contractors.
- Industrial site closure to acheive as clean a break as possible.
- Environmental permit surrender and transfer.
- Advice on the standard of clean up.
- Negotiations with the Environment Agency.
Case Study - Environmental liability transfer
Advising Evonik Degussa in connection with the sale of several UK chemical sites.
- Advising the Board on closing sites and environmental liability transfer options.
- Agreeing the sale strategy and the need for further investigations or remediation.
- Drafting environmental provisions in the sale contracts and indemnity deeds.
- Obtaining environmental insurance and negotiating the policy wording.
Testimonial
"A leader at understanding and commercially managing environmetal liability"
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