Jean-Philippe Brisson > Latham & Watkins LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

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United States > Industry focus > Environment: transactional

Latham & Watkins LLP‘s environment, land and natural resources team is adept at assisting global financial institutions, private equity firms, and leading corporates in high-profile transactions with significant environmental law components. Jointly headed by James Arnone in Los Angeles and Janice Schneider in Washington DC, the national practice group combines wide-ranging expertise in corporate and financing transactions, with sector specializations in areas such as energy, chemicals and manufacturing, among others. Another contact in DC is James Barrett, who has experience of environmental matters relating to project finance and private equity transactions. In Houston, Joel Mack is a contact for environmental law support on capital markets, M&A and finance deals, while New York-based Jean-Philippe Brisson (global co-chair of the environmental regulations and transactions practice) is a go-to advisor for green finance transactions and climate change matters. The team also has strengths in carbon markets, cleantech monetization and renewable and low-carbon technologies, areas in which Joshua Bledsoe in Orange County is a name to note.