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DLA Piper UK LLP’s team is ‘knowledgeable and very responsive’. Highlights included advising Tata Steel on the environmental aspects of selling a substantial part of its business to Sahaviriya Steel Industries. Other clients include Coors Brewers, Covanta Energy and the Environment Agency. Teresa Hitchcock is ‘extremely switched on, particularly in relation to energy and mineral extraction issues’; and Paul Burnley is also recommended.

Addleshaw Goddard LLP has been advising clients including British Gas on a number of anaerobic digestion waste-to-energy plants. It is also proficient in advising on the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme, with recent clients including Semperian Capital Management. Other clients include Strawson Holdings. Amanda Beresford heads the team.

Eversheds LLP’s environment team operates on a national basis, with regulatory expert Kevin Elliott among the key partners in Leeds. Highlights included acting for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in successfully prosecuting the owners of a vessel found to have caused substantial pollution of palm oil on the south coast of England.

The team at Nabarro LLPgets straight to the heart of the matter’ and ‘provides an exemplary service’; the lawyers ‘clearly know their stuff’. Highlights included acting for Murco in an appeal against a greenhouse gas civil penalty. Lukas Rootman ‘is very personable and listens well – he provides very focused advice’.

Pinsent Masons LLP’s practice is led by legal directors Helen Peters and Pauline Munro, for non-contentious and contentious work respectively. Peters is rated for her ‘ability to explain complex issues in plain English’, and Munro is an ‘an excellent performer’ who is ‘well liked and trusted’. Recent mandates include advising Sahaviriya Steel Industries on the environmental aspects of its acquisition of Tata Steel’s UK plant.

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