Regulatory & Risk Management
Our team has a long history of advising on a range of environmental, health & safety and climate change related regulatory issues.
Be it in relation to more traditional areas (such as permitting, contaminated land and health & safety at work) or more recent areas of regulatory control (like sustainability, climate change, REACH, producer responsibility and product liability), our advice and risk management solutions are pragmatic yet robust.
“…expertise in regulatory and risk management issues, advising clients on sustainability, corporate governance and ethical investment.”
Chambers UK
Areas of particular expertise include:
- product stewardship & liability
- climate change & renewable energy
- ethical investment & Environmental Social and Governance (ESG)
- compliance & permitting
- contaminated land
- environmental insurance
- health & safety
Recent highlights include advising:
- global sports clothing and equipment manufacturer on product stewardship issues ranging from REACH compliance through to participation in a voluntary Greenpeace initiative restricting hazardous substance use
- UK high street retailer on product safety issues and related corrective action, including a potential product recall
- private equity houses such as Bridgepoint and The Carlyle Group on the application of the UK’s CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme and the development of CRC compliance programs
- Italian steel producer on the EU Emission Trading Scheme
- European automotive producer on health & safety liabilities and the UK´s Corporate Manslaughter Act
- US chemical company on its emergency response to a potentially explosive solvent gas build-up in sewers underlying homes surrounding its facility