Environmental Health and Safety Regulation and Compliance Law
We advise businesses across a variety of sectors on regulatory, permitting and compliance related issues.
Particular areas of strength include air and water pollution, waste management and shipment, land contamination, noise abatement and hazardous substances.
The global slowdown has led to significant corporate restructuring, plant closures and mothballing. Environmental issues are often a key consideration in these decisions given the need to minimise the environmental legacy and eliminate longer term risks.
We advise on health and safety issues in transactions and on a stand-alone basis. This ranges from strategic issues concerning board-level health and safety responsibilities to practical guidance over health and safety issues, relationships with contractors and health and safety-related proceedings.
We also assist on measures to prevent bribery and corruption issues connected to environmental and wider compliance matters.
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Publications: 04 April 2024
UK carbon border adjustment mechanism: shaping up ahead of 2027
In 2027, the UK will introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on imports of certain carbon intensive goods. The CBAM will impose a charge on the emissions embodied in relevant imports…
Publications: 02 April 2024
Webinar: Greenwashing Update 2024
With the FCA’s new anti-greenwashing rule to soon come into effect (alongside new UK regulatory guidance that, in some respects, has proven controversial), it is a good time to take stock of the…
Publications: 27 March 2024
Hydrogen update Germany - new regulatory and market developments
Exciting times for hydrogen market participants in Germany – in the last months, a variety of new regulatory instruments and policy initiatives have been announced which will boost the ramp-up of the…
News: 27 March 2024
Allen & Overy has advised Orano, a recognized international group in the nuclear materials sector, on the launch, in collaboration with Supernova Invest, of the Orano Venture Fund, an investment fund…
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