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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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Aerial view of a circular maze

News: 27 March 2024

Allen & Overy conseille Orano sur le lancement avec Supernova Invest du fonds Orano Venture Fund dédié à la transition industrielle souveraine et durable

Allen & Overy a conseillé Orano, groupe international reconnu dans le domaine des matières nucléaires, dans le cadre du lancement avec Supernova Invest du fonds d’investissement Orano Venture Fund qui…

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Artists impression of a major development

Publications: 15 November 2023

Les risques associés à la mise en oeuvre de CSRD doivent être anticipés

De nombreuses entreprises engagent le chantier de la mise en œuvre de la directive du 14 décembre 2022 Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), leur imposant la publication annuelle d’un…

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Solar panels

Publications: 29 June 2022

Vers un « green deal » européen ?

Un éventail de propositions politiques et législatives vise à rendre l’Europe « neutre sur le plan climatique » d’ici à 2050. Romaric Lazerges et Arthur Sauzay, avocats au cabinet Allen & Overy, nous…

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