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Proskauer Rose LLP

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Proskauer Rose LLP’s environmental team is based in New York and offers comprehensive assistance to clients in the chemical, industrial, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical sectors. The team excels in various facets of environmental law, covering enforcement, compliance, and transactional advice. Their expertise extends to managing intricate merger and acquisition transactions, as well as handling capital market deals, underwritings, and financings. The team is led by Aliza Cinamon, noted for her knowledge of environmental issues related to complex corporate, real estate, financing, and bankruptcy transactions, and is actively involved in ESG, sustainability and climate change, as well as in environmental compliance and enforcement proceedings.

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Key clients

  • Arkema
  • Dansons US, LLC
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Havencrest
  • 48-18 Van Dam Holdings LLC
  • AEW Capital Management, L.P.

Work highlights

  • Represented Arkema in the acquisition of the performance adhesives unit of Ashland Global Holdings Inc., in a multi-national transaction valued at approximately $1.65 billion.
  • Advised Dansons US, LLC in the sale of its business to W.C. Bradley Co. Environmental counsel for this transaction included evaluating the scope of potential environmental liabilities and drafting complex provisions in the equity purchase agreement and renegotiated leases to properly allocate those risks among the parties.
  • Advised Morgan Stanley in a highly successful restructuring of von Drehle Corporation, a North Carolina-based paper tissue and paper towel manufacturer, handling all the environmental aspects of these transactions.

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Leading partners

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Aliza Cinamon

Aliza Cinamon

Proskauer Rose LLP

Aliza R. Cinamon leads Proskauer’s Environmental Group. She advises both U.S. and international clients on a broad spectrum of environmental issues in connection with complex corporate, real estate, financing and bankruptcy transactions. Aliza provides clients with a deep array of capabilities, acting on matters that involve liability and risk allocation issues, remediation, brownfields, ESG, sustainability and climate change, public company disclosures, environmental insurance and technical expert management. Her practice also includes representing clients in superfund litigation matters, environmental compliance and permitting and federal and state environmental enforcement proceedings. She has worked on transactions involving both public and private companies covering a wide variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, chemical manufacturing, life sciences, telecommunications, real estate construction and development, sports and retail. Aliza is also devoted to pro bono matters, including heading Proskauer's efforts on behalf of Holocaust victims eligible for reparations, obtaining disability benefits for veterans, identifying and assisting potential victims of trafficking, helping persecuted Iraqis seeking refuge in the U.S. and providing corporate counseling for a number of Proskauer’s other pro bono clients. Before joining Proskauer, Aliza interned for the U.S. District Court, New York, Southern District with Judge Shira Scheindlin.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Aliza Cinamon