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Felise Cooper

Senior Counsel

New York

Cooper Felise
Felise Cooper

Senior Counsel

New York

Felise advises U.S. and multinational clients on environmental issues in business transactions and counsels on best practice and compliance requirements, including compliance with global substance disclosure, control and product take-back requirements. She is ranked in Chambers USA 2020 as one of the top environmental lawyers for corporate transactions and compliance, and is named a “Next Generation Partner” for environmental law by Legal 500 U.S. in their 2020 edition. Felise leads the firm’s global Producer Responsibility and Product Compliance team, which comprises attorneys across fifteen international offices.

Felise assists business enterprises, investors and sponsors in assessing ESG risks and opportunities in their strategic projects and supply chains, including regarding international, national and local legal frameworks, voluntary standards and certifications, investing and reporting ratings and indices, and emerging challenges and trends. Felise has extensive experience advising on environmental risk in transactions, managing due diligence and coordinating work by technical consultants. Felise also routinely advises leading manufacturers on requirements for placing products on the market, negotiating with customers, distributors and suppliers, mitigating compliance risks, and interacting with government authorities around the world. Felise also regularly writes and speaks on ESG as well as producer compliance and product stewardship issues.

Related articles

Bottled liquids on conveyer belt

Publications: 28 November 2022

Supply chains must evolve to keep pace with drive to Net Zero

Supply chains enable production and progress, but their contribution to climate change is significant. Making them more sustainable in every sense is critical to decarbonisation. 

Read more Supply chains must evolve to keep pace with drive to Net Zero

Blog Post: 23 November 2022

The role of private sector investment in adaptation

Read more The role of private sector investment in adaptation

Publications: 02 August 2022

Scope 3 emissions and the SEC’s proposed disclosure rules: Key take-aways from the public comment process

Read more Scope 3 emissions and the SEC’s proposed disclosure rules: Key take-aways from the public comment process

Publications: 12 July 2022

U.S. Supreme Court limits EPA’s regulation of climate change pollution

Read more U.S. Supreme Court limits EPA’s regulation of climate change pollution

Office

New York

1221 Avenue of the Americas
New York
NY 10020

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Qualifications

Professional

Admitted: Bar of the State of New York, 2004

Academic

J.D., Columbia Law School, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, 2003

B.A., magna cum laude and departmental honors, Northwestern University, 1998

Published work

  • “Supply Chain Management,” Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Business: Environmental, Social and Governance Frameworks for the 21st Century, International Bar Association Series, Volume 27 (July 2020)
  • “EU Unveils Key Elements of Its Green Deal,” Power magazine (March 31, 2020)
  • “Updated Equator Principles Finalized,” Allen & Overy e-Alert (January 27, 2020)
  • "Update: RoHS Recast Published Today", Allen & Overy e-Alert (July 1, 2011)
  • "Chemicals Regulations in the US Turn Towards REACH", Chemical Week online (May 14, 2010)
  • "Does the US Oil Pollution Act Cover LNG Spills?", Environmental Liability (published by Lawtext Publishing Limited), p. CS31 (March -- April 2010)
  • "It's Elemental: Chemicals Reform in the United States", Environmental Liability (published by Lawtext Publishing Limited), p. CS10 (January – February 2010)
  • "The REACH of Europe's Regulatory System: New Era Begins for Registration and Assessment of Chemicals", New York Law Journal, p. 9, July 14, 2008"It's Elemental: Chemicals Reform in the United States", Environmental Liability (published by Lawtext Publishing Limited), p. CS10 (January – February 2010)