Business and Real Estate Transactions

There is increasing focus on the need for environmental due diligence in business transactions, including the purchase, sale or lease of buildings and real property, the purchase or sale of an existing business or business assets, and lending transactions, to name a few. Our environmental attorneys will manage the environmental due diligence process to help make your business or real estate transactions go smoothly.

If environmental liabilities are discovered after a business or real estate transaction has closed, regulatory authorities typically look to the current owner or operator to address those liabilities. When this happens, the terms of the transactional documents, negotiated many months or even years earlier, will establish the parties' rights and responsibilities concerning liabilities. In recognition of this fact, our environmental attorneys will arrange for and review the results of an environmental site assessment, and examine environmental records and compliance information to assess compliance with environmental laws and regulations. We will then draft environmental provisions to be included in your transactional documents, in an effort to avoid surprises later on. In addition, if environmental insurance can be of use in your proposed transaction, we can help to evaluate insurance opportunities that may be appropriate.

We understand that your business and real estate transactions are an important part of your business. We make your transaction an important part of our business too, and will work to "get the deal done" on the terms that are right for you.