The task of managing environmental risks and liabilities and attending to environmental regulatory challenges and beyond compliance mandates has never been more critical to the success of commercial and industrial enterprises than it is today. Expanding domestic and international environmental regulatory regimes are creating new compliance obligations for companies operating in a global marketplace. Truly global environmental issues, such as climate change and water scarcity, have increased environmental awareness and activism and are changing how companies operate. Sustainability initiatives are also transforming the way in which companies define environmental performance and compliance.
With almost 300 lawyers around the world, our Environmental and Climate Change Group provides unparalleled global coverage and environmental legal expertise and is recognized year-after-year as the leading environmental practice among international law firms. Our preeminent team is comprised of seasoned lawyers who have been consistently acknowledged by legal rating agencies as leaders in their field and bring decades of experience providing regulatory counsel, enforcement defense, and litigation support to clients on the wide range of environmental, climate change, and sustainability compliance and liability matters that affect their business operations. The unique combination of local expertise and international perspectives enables us to seamlessly merge our traditional environmental law practice with specialized climate change, carbon market, sustainability and product regulatory expertise to provide unrivaled legal counsel for our domestic and international clients.
