Environmental Due Diligence Service

Avoid future legal complications by taking steps today to protect your company from unwanted liability. Contact environmental due diligence lawyer Tim Henderson at Rich and Henderson today for a consultation in our Annapolis or Easton, Maryland offices to discuss your needs.

At Rich and Henderson, our attorneys undertake a legal audit of requirements, licenses, certifications, inspections, and other issues in order to ensure your company is in compliance with state, federal, and even international law. And, since laws in these areas often change, we`re particularly attentive to alerting clients to new environmental laws and land use regulations that could impact how they conduct business.

We have performed or supervised environmental due diligence reviews for the following:

• Industrial and commercial real estate purchases and sales
• Corporate acquisitions and sales
• Loans
• Power generation and waste co-generation projects
• Joint ventures and initial public offerings (IPOs)

In states such as New Jersey, Connecticut or Illinois, where transactions cannot be completed until environmental compliance has been established, we take part in the environmental review process in order to expedite transaction closings.

Our environmental law attorneys provide insights on the business and legal communities` approach to the transfer of property with known or potential environmental contamination. Understanding how to avoid unwanted environmental problems can also come into play in mergers and acquisitions as well. We utilize the expanded coverage of CERCLA`s exemption for owners of security interests in contaminated property, Brownfield`s initiatives, and environmental insurance tools relative to the financing of the acquisition of contaminated property. Our attorneys are fully versed in the ASTM standards for Phase I Environmental Assessments and the All Appropriate Inquiries rules.

We use our knowledge and experience to develop creative and effective solutions, tailor-made for the environmental risks posed by each transaction. We oversee the correction, remediation and cleanup of identified environmental problems and risks and prepare the disclosures required by the SEC under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and annual reporting regulations. Many of our attorneys have backgrounds in the sciences, environmental planning, engineering and geology and have developed close working relationships with a number of leading environmental consultants and engineering firms.