Combining the firm’s capabilities across its private equity, project finance, and energy practices, King & Spalding LLP’s environmental team client roster comprises a host of private equity and energy sector clients that turn to the team for advise on the environmental aspects of mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, projects, and financings. Under the leadership of Ilana Saltzbart , the team is prepared to advise on emerging issues including renewable energy and PFAS. The deep bench is comprised of Cynthia Stroman, whose practice largely centers on projects and transactions in the energy, renewable, and environmentally intensive segments, Joseph Eisert , who regularly handles transaction, enforcement, and incident response mandates and Karl Heisler, who has notable strength in negotiations of representations, warranties, and indemnifications within transactions. The lawyers other than Chicago-based Heisler operate out of the Washington DC office.
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Key clients
- Red Lobster
- United Parcel Service (“UPS”)
- Axium Infrastructure
- Atlas Holdings LLC
- Lotus Infrastructure Partners
- Quanta Services
- Glatfelter
- Quantum Energy Partners
- Equistar Chemicals, LP. / LyondellBasell
- Antares Capital
Work highlights
- Represented Red Lobster and its affiliates in their Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed in the Middle District of Florida.
- Provided UPS with environmental due diligence on a sell-side carve-out transaction to sell a freight logistics company, Coyote Logistics, that was purchased and integrated a few years earlier.
- Advised LyondellBasell through its subsidiary Equistar Chemicals, LP, closed on the sale of its Ethylene Oxide & Derivatives business to INEOS Americas LLC, an affiliate of INEOS Group Limited for $700 million.
Lawyers
Practice head
Ilana Saltzbart
Other key lawyers
Cynthia Stroman; Joseph Eisert; Karl Heisler