Environmental Law and Sustainability


Overview

Specialized Expertise and Synergetic Solutions

Our firm is an environmental law pioneer, trailblazing the filed in Israel and accumulating vast knowledge and extensive experience in representing clients in environmental related issues. Our specialized expertise, coupled with an interdisciplinary approach, enables us to provide synergetic solutions to the most complex environmental challenges faced by our clients, utilizing the full array of the firm’s capabilities across civil and criminal litigation, energy and infrastructure, planning and construction, commercial law and transactions, real estate, banking and more.

Impact on Legislation

In light of the widespread development of new environmental regulation and legislation, we routinely advise clients regarding statutory proceedings in the environmental law field, including the formation and execution of active regulatory initiatives in the early stages of the regulatory process, and represent clients in hearings and proceedings before the various government authorities.

Regulatory Experts – Legal Opinions, Licensing and Due Diligence

With Israel’s top environmental attorneys, we offer clients unique experience and expertise in the field. As such, we are the contact of choice for clients faced with environmental regulation issues, and represent clients in various issues in the field.
Among others, we provide legal counsel and representation before the relevant government authorities and ministries in licensing proceedings and administrative petitions, as well as conduct due diligence for transactions and advise on environment related contractual obligations.

Environmental Litigation – Civil, Administrative and Criminal Enforcement

Our specialized expertise in the field enables us to confidently represent clients facing such proceedings, exhibited through the filing of various claims against commercial and industrial entities for environmental hazards, including civil-commercial claims, class actions and tort claims relating to exposure to hazardous materials, contamination of drinking or sea water, environmental criminal investigations, administrative sanctions, and more.
In addition, the firm advises on the formation and implementation of internal environmental enforcement plans, targeted to minimize the company’s exposure to criminal and administrative sanctions.