Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s environmental practice advises a range of clients, most notably from the manufacturing, energy, chemical, and pharmaceutical sectors, on a variety of environmental issues, including transactions, litigation, and regulatory proceedings. In the transactional space, the team is noted for its expertise in handling mergers, joint ventures, financings and offerings. Further core workflows of the practice include defending and asserting environmental claims based on contracts and business bets, as well as advising on environmental liabilities and risk, environmental compliance and operational issues. From the Washington DC office, practice head Elizabeth Malone handles complex environmentally-related corporate transactions, while also advising clients on environmental liabilities and compliance issues.