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Greenberg Traurig LLP

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Greenberg Traurig LLP regularly advises developers, investors, and lenders on the full range of environmentally-related real estate and corporate transactions, including environmental due diligence and negotiating environmental terms in transaction documents. Miami-based Kerri Barsh, who co-heads the firm’s environmental practice with Tampa-based David Weinstein, is a key contact, advising on a range of environmental regulatory, permitting and litigation matters, including transactional support and due diligence, energy and infrastructure projects, climate change issues and hazardous materials’ contamination. From Denver, fellow co-head Christopher Neumann is known for his extensive transactional experience in the oil and gas, mining, and hazardous waste sectors. Steven Russo chairs the firm’s environmental practice in New York, and is an expert in environmental law and litigation, environmental permitting, land use and real estate law. Philadelphia’s Paul McIntyre and Houston’s Christopher L Bell are also recommended.

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Key clients

  • National Grid
  • Atlantic Shores
  • Miami Freedom Park and Inter Miami CF Owners
  • Affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust
  • Constellation Energy
  • Arcadian Fiberoptic Project
  • Xcel Energy
  • Envest

Work highlights

  • Represented Miami Freedom Park, the new home for InterMiami CF, in securing approval of the site rehabilitation plan for the Stadium complex for the Major League Soccer team owned by soccer legend David Beckham and Miami entrepreneurs Jorge and Jose Mas.
  • Represented Atlantic Shores in connection with a potential offshore wind project and with in regard to potential permitting and environmental review issues with regard to offshore wind projects.
  • Assisted Native American Tribal matters to Xcel Energy on two major proposed projects: Colorado’s Power Pathway, and the Unaweep Canyon Pumped-Storage Hydropower (PSH) Project.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

David Weinstein, Christopher Neumann, Kerri Barsh, Steven Russo