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Mr Stuart Hammer
Position
Counsel
Career
Stuart Hammer chairs Debevoise’s Environmental Practice Group and is a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. For more than 20 years, he has advised multi-national corporations, private equity firms and other entities on environmental issues associated with mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, financings and other transactions involving facilities in the United States and overseas. He also advises companies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues and environmental disputes.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Environment > Environment: transactional
(Hall of Fame)Sitting in the wider corporate group, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s environmental practice is particularly strong in high-profile and high-value M&A deals, and acts for businesses, private equity funds and investment funds. It handles environmental issues relating to domestic and international transactions, securities offerings and financings. Stuart Hammer
heads the team with over 25 years’ experience in advising clients on the environmental risks and liabilities associated with their transactions; he also provides ancillary advice in ESG matters and is active in the defense, chemicals, consumer product, pharmaceutical and packaging sectors. Harry Zirlin handles M&A, financings and real estate transactions and is experienced in environmental-related bankruptcy issues and comprehensive environmental response, compensation, and liability act (CERCLA) matters. Ulysses Smith joined as senior adviser for ESG from Telos Governance Advisers in November 2022. All attorneys named are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > Environment > Environment: transactional
- Environment: transactional United States > Environment
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)