Real estate transactions

Helping you reduce the risks of environmental liability arising in real estate developments, transactions and investments

The environment is an important feature in any significant real estate development or transaction. We have experience in advising on all related environmental issues including:

• Identifying potential environmental issues and liabilities on the acquisition of land including buildings, plant and machinery (eg asbestos and PCBs) including instructing and liasing with specialist environmental consultants
• Structuring real estate transactions to protect clients from, or to mitigate against, environmental liabilities eg by using novel techniques such as pie-crust or surface leases

Real Estate Planning/Zoning and Land Use

• Advising on risk transfer solutions such as environmental insurance
• Negotiating indemnity protection and transfer of liability provisions
• Environmental issues arising out of redevelopment and regeneration of sites including clean-up of contaminated land, ecological constraints and associated planning issues such as environmental assessment and compulsory purchase
• Environmental legal implications for creating new ways of holding and dealing with land eg funds, trusts structures, limited liability partnerships and SPV entities and trading vehicles
• Specific issues relating to complex shared sites where services may need to be shared or separated and regulatory permits revised.

For more information on how we can help, contact a member of the team or see our full team of environmental specialists.