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Kirkland & Ellis - Salt Lake City Offices
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
60 East South Temple Suite 700
UT 84111
United States
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Emily Tabak
Position
Emily Tabak is a partner in the Salt Lake City office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Emily identifies strategic solutions in environmental regulatory compliance, specializing in waste and chemicals management, contamination issues and emerging contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), multi-facility audit management and disclosures, and enforcement response.
Emily has extensive experience helping clients navigate regulatory, permitting, and liability issues involving solid and hazardous waste, chemicals, site remediation, water quality, and air quality. She counsels clients managing complex audit and compliance processes, negotiates civil and criminal enforcement actions, and prepares submissions including reporting and disclosures to federal and state authorities and insurers. Emily also regularly advises clients involved in multiple industry sectors, including energy and resources, mining, oil and gas, aggregates, and electric power, focusing on liability and compliance related to changing federal and state environmental rulemaking, requirements and developments. Her experience includes regulations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Clean Water Act (CWA), and other statutory schemes.
Prior to joining Kirkland, Emily practiced at Holland & Hart LLP in Salt Lake City, and at K&L Gates LLP and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in the New York metropolitan area, advising clients on a range of environmental compliance issues, as well as assisting with litigation in a high-profile insider trading trial, bankruptcy proceedings, and regulatory investigations. Emily also served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Robert Kirsch on The Superior Court of New Jersey.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Environment > Environment: transactional
The environmental transactional practice group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP is ‘respectful, knowledgeable, and client-focused’ and is led out of San Francisco by Paul Tanaka. It fields practitioners across the US and is well versed in environmental due diligence, pre-deal counseling, risk mitigation, environmental insurance analysis and procurement, and regulatory and enforcement matters. The firm is well known for its representation of top-tier private equity clients and handles deals in the energy, infrastructure, and industrial sectors, among other areas. Tanaka handles the full gamut of transactional issues from compliance and governance to crisis management and is experienced in a wide range of transactions from small venture capital investments to large cross-border deals. Jonathan Kidwell in Dallas is a key name for M&A, bankruptcies, financing transactions and real estate investments hand has considerable experience of deals in heavily regulated sectors. Toby Chun left in January 2022, while Emily Tabak joined in Salt Lake city from Holland & Hart LLP and Sam Dykstra joined from Ballard Spahr LLP in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Government > Government relations
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Government > State attorneys general
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds