Environmental Due Diligence

Managing environmental liability with environmental due diligence.

Husch Blackwell advises developers, business owners, lenders, and business investors on strategies for managing environmental risks that arise in transactional matters across the country. Our attorneys help companies resolve environmental issues surrounding corporate and real estate transactions by performing environmental due-diligence reviews of environmental records, transferring required permits, evaluating liability for pre-existing contamination, and drafting purchase and sale contracts. Our counsel includes strategic planning, environmental due diligence, document drafting and negotiation, development considerations, and environmental liability management.

Whether the deal involves brownfields, energy projects, office buildings, retail, self storage, old or new manufacturing plants, or a single-site or a multi-state portfolio, our team has extensive experience in environmental due diligence. Our environmental liability management solutions include drafting tailored environmental representations, warranties, indemnities, and covenants to meet the goals of a specific transaction, consultant selection and management, remediation access agreements, advice on insurance to address remediation costs, and structuring transactions to minimize environmental liabilities.