Go-To Law Firm
Listed as a go-to law firm for corporate transactions in ALM's In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies.
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Corporate Transactions
No company can afford to acquire or dispose of another company or a parcel of real estate without considering environmental implications that may stretch far into the future. Squire Sanders environmental lawyers are frequently members of the legal team providing counsel to clients in a wide range of corporate transactions regarding acquisitions, divestitures and other real estate transactions.
Examples of the support we provide include:
- Designing corporate structures so as to separate and contain potential environmental liabilities.
- Negotiating complex environmental indemnity and risk allocation agreements in transactions involving multiple properties in the United States and abroad.
- Investigating and evaluating environmental risks in the large-scale acquisition of companies with multiple facilities throughout the United States and abroad.
- Assisting numerous clients with the environmental aspects of commercial transactions, including real estate ventures, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and financings.
- Performing complex environmental due diligence on short notice and under strict confidentiality requirements for fast-paced Silicon Valley mergers concerned about effects on stock valuation.
- Developing and assessing appropriate environmental due diligence investigations and considering related issues in allocation of potential environmental liabilities consistent with our clients’ strategic, business and risk allocation objectives.
- Drafting and negotiating environmental provisions in contracts and other commercial agreements.
- Representing clients to interpret and litigate contractual provisions concerning indemnities and assumptions of environmental liabilities.
- Providing advice on insurance and other environmental risk reduction techniques that can facilitate deals.
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