Ashurst Perkins Coie fields a strong environmental law practice, advising on both contentious and non-contentious transactional, project and regulatory matters. The team, led by Eleanor Reeves,, is particularly active on large-scale corporate, real estate and infrastructure mandates, with notable expertise across the water, waste, energy and transport sectors. Isabelle Laborde advises on complex transactions and regulatory matters, Joanna Fox specialises in environmental and safety regulation, and James Nierinck focuses on corporate and property deals. Julie Vaughan adds expertise in renewable energy regulation and chemicals compliance.
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Testimonials
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- My experience of the teams we've worked with across departments and practice areas is that they are highly commercial, pragmatic, competent, and sophisticated in their understanding of climate risk-related considerations affecting their legal advice. This spans climate and nature-related standards, climate science and biodiversity, legal frameworks, and the practical application of these in pragmatic, commercially anchored legal advice that acts as an enabler for organizations to adopt climate-aligned and nature-positive approaches to running their operations and transactions.
- High sophistication and maturity in relation to advising on climate risk across a range of sectors and transactional contexts.
- James Nierinck (Counsel) is our key contact in the Environment Team. He is proactive, responsive, and great to work with.
- The Environment team takes a very collaborative approach to working with us, and we enjoy and benefit from working with them.
- The individuals we have worked with stand out for their commercial awareness and responsiveness, as well as their ability to always deliver cohesive and clear advice across different subject areas. In particular, Counsel James Nierinck has been exceptionally good at simplifying complex topics into an easy-to-understand form and has always been able to offer value-adding and clear guidance.
- A really good all-round environmental practice in London, together with a deep technical understanding of this complex area of law, and stands out against competitors as a result.
Key clients
- UK Government
- Tritax
- Intermediate Capital Group (ICG)
- Teneo
- Lendlease
- FCC Environment
- McLaren Automotive Ltd
- Oxford Properties
- Balfour Beatty
- Ofwat
Lawyers
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Leading associates
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Practice head
Eleanor Reeves
Other key lawyers
Isabelle Laborde; Joanna Fox; James Nierinck; Julie Vaughan; Becky Clissmann