Expertise and Experience You Can Trust
Our team consists of legal planners, negotiators, former regulators, and advocates with deep experience and expertise in environmental law. We understand the complex issues facing corporate decision-makers, lenders, and regulators, and we’re committed to providing timely and effective solutions to our clients.
National and International Reach
Environmental issues don’t stop at borders, and neither do we. With lawyers across Canada, we offer deep knowledge and a high level of scientific literacy to guide you through environmental regulations in multiple jurisdictions. We work with clients in a variety of industries, including waste management, petrochemicals, mining, energy, and more, to provide comprehensive legal advice on all aspects of environmental law.
Your Guide Through Regulatory Changes
Potential environmental problems are often not visible at first glance. We help you dig below the surface to uncover issues before they affect your business. Navigating changing environmental regulations can be challenging, but our team is here to help. From structuring deals with environmental risks to defending against regulatory prosecutions, we partner with you to ensure compliance and protect your interests. We negotiate with regulators on your behalf and provide practical, efficient solutions to help you achieve your business goals.
Our Services
- Advocacy before administrative environmental tribunals
- Business transactions, including environmental due diligence and insurance
- Climate change regulation and GHG emissions
- Contaminated land and brownfield redevelopment
- Defence against environmental prosecutions
- Directors and officers environmental liability
- Electricity storage projects
- Emission control and abatement
- Environmental approvals and assessments
- Environmental civil litigation
- Environmental compliance and permitting
- Environmental issues in insolvency
- Indigenous consultation and resource disputes
- Insurance and insolvency related to environmental matters
- Land acquisition, sale, and development
- Legislative drafting and interpretation
- Nuisance claims
- Regulatory assistance for renewable energy projects
- Waste management and recycling
- Water and sewage servicing
- Wetlands issues
Notable Matters
- Advised on transactions involving contaminated land and negotiate agreements between land owners dealing with environmental contamination, brownfield redevelopment and brownfield funding
- Advised on significant contaminated land litigation in Ontario, BC, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Quebec, all involving multi-party litigation, historical land ownership, requiring significant understanding of contaminant migration patterns and movement
- Argued precedent setting contaminated site cases in B.C., Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada
- Resolved significant environmental insurance claims
- Successful defence of companies and directors and officers in environmental prosecutions
- Mediated a multi-party dispute with various levels of government involving urbanisation and contamination issues
- Acted as counsel to major waste management company in all facets of regulatory compliance, acquisitions and dispositions
- Acted as counsel to the municipality in the Walkerton Water Inquiry (including all the attendant regulatory, enforcement and remedial work) and advised municipalities regarding compliance with post-Walkerton legislative and regulatory initiatives
- Acted as counsel in climate change credit verification action
- Advised on the development, permitting, construction and finance of a series of battery electricity storage projects in Ontario
