Jones Walker LLP

Jones Walker LLP provides counsel on a diverse array of environmental regulatory matters and transactions, spanning mergers and acquisitions, environmental permitting and litigation, defense against agency enforcement actions, and addressing wetlands issues. In New Orleans, the firm’s environmental practice group is jointly led by Meghan Smith, who routinely assists oil and gas companies, chemical manufacturers, and engineering firms, in state and federal litigation and private arbitrations, and Robert Holden, whose extensive practice encompasses regulatory compliance, enforcement actions, responses to spills and other industrial accidents, and involvement in commercial litigation. Another key contact is Lafayette’s Alex Prochaska, who regularly assists buyers and sellers of industrial facilities and commercial properties with environmental due diligence, pre- and post-closing remediation activities, and drafting and negotiating indemnities, releases and warranties in purchase agreements.