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Sam Boileau
Work Department
Energy, Transport and Infrastructure
Position
Sam focuses on UK and EU environmental and safety law, and has been practicing in these fields for over 15 years. He is one of the few lawyers in the UK to be individually ranked in Chambers & Partners for both environmental and health and safety expertise.
His practice area includes waste management, producer responsibility, product liability, pollution liability, environmental permitting, water and drainage, land contamination and health and safety.
Sam assists clients with all areas of environmental and safety regulation, including in relation to regulatory investigations, prosecutions, compliance issues, liability concerns, and contractual drafting to cover environmental and safety issues.
Sam is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) and is also a member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM). He speaks regularly at industry events and writes a regular legal column on environmental law in the waste industry’s main trade journal, CIWM.
According to Chambers & Partners 2017, clients are “impressed with his ability to think ahead and analyse the business needs,” and describe him as “exceptionally knowledgeable and helpful.”
Education
City University London, 1997, CPE, (Commendation)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Real estate > Environment
Dentons‘s environment team is led by Stephen Shergold
and benefits from his environmental expertise across sectors including oil and gas, waste and environmental insurance. The team also draws on the experience of environmental law experts including Helen Bowdren, who regularly acts on complex cross border mandates, Sam Boileau, whose expertise includes the environmental regulation of the oil & gas and waste sectors, and Pamela Coulthard, whose specialisms includes regulatory issues surrounding oil & gas decommissioning and pollution control. Recently, the firm has moved to expand its ESG practices, including through creating the ESG: Global Solution Hub, a tool used to measure legal risk for clients. The firm works across jurisdictions, leveraging its global influence and network to participate on high profile international cases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: lower mid-market deals, £50m-£500m
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Real estate > Environment
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Franchising
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Patent attorneys
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Employment > Health and safety
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property finance
- Industry focus > TMT
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media and entertainment (including media finance)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > PATMA: Trade mark attorneys
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport