Mr John Ix > Dechert LLP > Philadelphia, United States > Lawyer Profile
Dechert LLP Offices
CIRCA CENTRE, 2929 ARCH STREET
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104-2808
PENNSYLVANIA
United States
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Mr John Ix
Work Department
Environmental Transactional and Risk Management
Position
Special Counsel
Career
John M. Ix counsels clients on environmental regulatory compliance issues, supports litigated environmental disputes, and negotiates environmental terms in business transactions. He formerly served as co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Environmental Law Committee.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Ix worked as a geologist for an environmental consulting firm. That experience, coupled with his undergraduate and graduate science degrees, provides him with a distinctive understanding of the technical issues underlying environmental compliance, litigation, and transactional matters.
Mr. Ix has counseled clients on compliance with federal and state environmental laws, specifically assisting them in developing cost-effective solutions to site remediation and permitting issues. Mr. Ix has also represented clients in litigated and mediated environmental matters, including environmental disputes between successive property owners, neighboring property owners, landlords, and tenants. He also has assisted clients with environmental issues arising out of real property transfers and other business transactions, including negotiating environmental provisions of asset and stock purchase agreements, securitization agreements, and access agreements, and evaluating the sufficiency of environmental risk mitigants such as environmental insurance.
Education
- Colgate University, B.A., 1988
- Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, M.S., Environmental Science, 1994
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law, J.D., 1994, magna cum laude, Articles Editor of the Indiana Law Journal, Order of the Coif
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Environment > Environment: transactional
The environmental team at Dechert LLP is led out of Philadelphia by Abbi Cohen and has a strong track record in acquisitions and divestitures in the real estate and infrastructure sectors. The firm also handles financing transactions, environmental insurance, and licensing and permitting matters, and acts for investors, lenders, property owners and non-profit organizations. Cohen is well versed in environmental due diligence and liability on domestic and cross-border transactions. Special counsel John Ix is a name for regulatory compliance issues, disputes and transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate finance
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- International trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation