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Environment Tier 1 in The Legal 500 and Band 1 in Chambers UK

Tier 2 in The Legal 500 Scotland and Chambers Band 1 ranked lawyer in Scotland

Stephen Shergold offers “deep substantive knowledge, coupled with great experience with the regulators and knows how to get the regulator to recognise the business realities,” “His communication skills are superb and he is a real asset in negotiations.” – Chambers 2017

Sam Boileau is described by clients as “exceptionally knowledgeable and helpful,” and clients are “impressed with his ability to think ahead and analyse the business needs.” – Chambers 2017

Helen Bowdren is “very credible in the field of environmental litigation of risk.” – The Legal 500 2017

“…the firm is an authority on many local areas in the developing world. The team has good knowledge on industrial pollution claims and breaks everything down to understandable but cutting-edge advice.” – Chambers 2017

Pamela Coulthard attracts praise from sources for being “very good technically”. – Chambers 2017 Environment

The Dentons Environment & Safety team is ranked by both Chambers and The Legal 500 as one of a small handful of leading environmental practices in the UK. With four individual rankings in Chambers, the Dentons Environment & Safety team is “recommended for strong industry knowledge, particularly within the , oil and gas and energy sectors.” and “noted for its sound legal advice.” – Chambers UK, 2017

We are very experienced in Our clients benefit from a UK . Our key strengths environmental practice that has lie in the breadth of our specialist in-depth experience not only in practice which covers: traditional areas of environmental and safety law such as waste • Advising on environmental and management, pollution control safety compliance and health and safety, but also • Defending clients in connection in developing areas of legislation with regulatory investigations and concerning climate change, prosecutions renewables and sustainability. • Carrying out focused and Environmental issues, by their nature, effective environmental due do not respect borders or regional diligence boundaries. Our clients benefit from • Drafting and negotiating the global perspective and insight specialist environmental contract that comes from our unparalleled provisions. environmental experience globally. We can add value to your business All our environmental lawyers are by offering environmental law full time professionals in these proficiency and experience on areas, and our clients benefit from a cross-border basis, involving our the depth of regulatory experience lawyers from several jurisdictions. which they bring. Businesses face increasing regulatory and public pressure to address and report on the environmental impact of their operations, often in multiple jurisdictions.

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Dentons has been a market-leading Clients include: (formerly • Advising in connection with waste regulatory practice in the Shanks), Grundon, Hills Group environmental legislation, UK for many decades. We act for Limited and the Salvation Army. including liaison with Environment a number of leading national Agency on compliance issues. companies, • Advising on waste regulatory • Advising on waste law issues advising on permit compliance, matters relevant to operations, associated with the collection of liability management and regulatory including in relation to donated clothing by charitable enforcement. We have been a Mechanical Biological Treatment bodies. Review of the relevant involved in leading UK and European (MBT) Plant. case law and EU and national waste cases. We are members • Participating in the regulatory legislation on discarding and the of and work closely with the committee for ESA, the waste definition of “waste”, and strategic Environmental Services Association sector’s main industry body. advice on regulatory issues. (ESA) and the Chartered Institution of Management (CIWM). • Challenging Environment • Negotiating a complex We also participate in the regulatory Agency enforcement action enforcement undertaking committee for the Environmental taken at UK waste management with the Environment Agency Services Association, the waste sites, including sites and in connection with a waste sector’s main industry body. transfer stations. site, as an alternative to criminal prosecution.

4 dentons.com Oil and Gas

Our market leading Environment • Advising on all environmental co-ordinating the transfer of more & Safety team is integrated into and safety aspects of the than 1000 environmental permits, the Firm’s Energy practice, one of company’s pioneering investment and advice on residual liability the largest and most highly regarded in UK shale. Our role included issues post completion. energy practices in the world. This the delivery of advice on the • Advising confidential upstream gives us a particular strength in the contractual documentation oil and gas exploration and energy sector. The team is active in place for this shale play. We production company in relation in oil & gas, advising companies in also gave detailed regulatory to its crisis management connection with both exploration advice relating to the complex policy and procedures. Work and production and downstream set of environmental and safety involved analysis of recent crisis; activities. The team has been regulations which govern onshore delivering legal workshops involved in nationally significant shale projects. with senior management team; oil and gas transactions, including • Advising on the acquisition drafting crisis response policy the sale of major portfolios of of Gulf African Petroleum’s and corporate plan; delivery of downstream assets such as petrol (GAPCO) downstream assets workshops and briefing sessions stations and refineries, and the in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to senior level management and acquisition of upstream assets in from Reliance Exploration and board members. multiple jurisdictions. Production DMCC. Assets • Advising an oil and gas major in included two logistics terminals Clients include: World Fuel Services, connection with Greenpeace’s (Mombasa, Kenya and Dar es Total Lindsey Oil Refinery Limited, Total judicial review of DECC’s decision Salaam, Tanzania) and a retail UK, Perenco, Centrica Storage, PwC to licence deepwater drilling network of approx. 100 service and Total Raffinage & Marketing. following Deepwater Horizon. stations. Work included reviewing and • Advising on a range of • Advising on all environmental advising on merits of claim and environmental issues, including and safety aspects of the strategic options for client. compliance, corporate administration of Petroplus, • Advising oil and gas company structuring, responding to principally in connection with the in connection with Environment regulatory investigations closure of refinery operations at Agency investigation following and enforcement action, and sale of Coryton and the sale significant onshore hydrocarbon environmental permitting, and of the Teeside terminal site. spillage in the UK causing the environmental aspects of • Advising on issues arising environmental damage within business sales and purchases. under insolvency law for the protected area of outstanding • Advising in relation to administrators when operating natural beauty. Work included environmental compliance a high hazard installation. detailed advice on production of matters at a UK oil refinery. internal investigation report. • Advising on the disposal of a Work included advising on downstream retail business to the application of the Landfill Rontec. Work included preparing Directive to landfill closure a vendor due diligence report requirements, the Industrial on HSE matters, drafting Emissions Directive and its bespoke HSE provisions in the impact on emissions limits at sale agreement, advising on the refinery, and the application contractual negotiations including of waste management law on discussions on HSE liabilities, refinery operations.

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We advise both insurers and those environmental insurance policies. Paddington Central development seeking environmental insurance. Work has included detailed project. Work included liaising reviews of individual draft policies with various UK environmental Clients include: AIG, QBE Insurance and detailed advice on UK insurance providers and (Europe) Limited, Highways Agency environmental liability regimes. comparing terms of a range of and Ironshore. policies. • Reviewing and advising on environmental coverage on • Advising the water industry • We advise on environmental European Premises Environmental research body UKWIR in claims brought under Liability Policy. connection with the implications environmental insurance policies; for the water industry of the and underwriting of specialist • Advising on environmental liability Environmental Liability Directive. warranty and indemnity insurance insurance in connection with the The role included working with policies on acquisitions (where M25 DBFO project. insurance brokers to deliver advice the insurer underwrites the • Advising US insurer on UK on environmental insurance for environmental warranties). environmental liability regimes this new area of liability. • Advising various leading UK in relation to drafting pollution- specialist insurance providers policy wording appropriate for the during the last 10 years with London market. drafting the terms of their • Advising on the procurement Environmental Impairment of Environmental Impairment Liability and other specialist Liability insurance for the

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We advise a range of clients in the context of physical oil trading, • Advising on the transfer of oil & gas and chemicals sectors on including registration requirements, existing REACH registrations REACH compliance. counterparty obligations, liability in the context of a UK refinery. risks and contractual drafting. Advice included liaising with the • Advising in relation to the global regulator and drafting appropriate • Advising on obligations in relation physical trading of crude and contractual provisions. to REACH registration (including products. Advice included REACH assistance with the pre-registration registration obligations of the of more than 300 substances). company and counterparties and data sharing within • Advising on REACH compliance the supply chain. obligations to parties off-taking bioethanol, including drafting • Providing advice in relation to contractual provisions in off-take various REACH queries in the and storage agreements.

dentons.com 7 Government and Regulation

Clients include: Environment Agency, • Drafting the Renewables Greater London Authority (GLA), Obligation Orders for Northern Department of Energy and Climate Ireland (NIRO) in 2009, 2010 Change (DECC), Department of and 2011. Enterprise, Trade and Investment • Advising on the implementation (DETI), Ministry of Defence (MoD) and of the Renewable Energy Highways Agency. Directive (RED). • Advising the MoD in connection • Advising the Government of with contamination hostility Poland in connection with the management, including in relation drafting and interpretation of to issues. Assigned Amount Unit (AAU) sale agreements under the • Advising the Environment Agency Kyoto Protocol. in connection with its guidance documents for the CRC Energy • Advising on sustainability Efficiency Scheme. criteria, drafting conditions and obligations on contractors which • Advising GLA on the allocation of impose a contractual framework environmental risk and long-term for sustainable construction. remediation plans for the Ford Dagenham site. • Providing Defra funded training including training materials of • Advising on the environmental the use of contaminated aspects of the Government’s enforcement officers under the pioneering Carbon and Capture Contaminated Land Regime. and Storage project.

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Clients include: KSL Partners, Sainsburys, Waitrose and Argos.

• Advising on the acquisition of the Village Hotels chain for £485 million. The deal included a portfolio of 25 properties comprising 3,100 rooms, plus three additional properties under construction in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow. • Advising in relation to the purchase of a site with various remediation requirements. Work included advising on environmental insurance in respect of historic deep groundwater contamination. • Advising on the acquisition of a portfolio of 25 luxury hotels, including identifying compliance issues in relation to water discharge, water abstraction, WEEE, waste management, odour complaints and refrigerant gases. • Advising on the acquisition of a central London hotel, including specific issues relating to the application of energy efficiency minimum standards to several subleases within the hotel, waste management issues and noise complaints. • Advising UK retail client in relation to environmental law duties relating to discharges to controlled waters in UK. • Advising UK retail client in relation to product liability and environmental obligations arising in connection with internet sales into multiple European jurisdictions.

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Clients include: Marshall Motor • Advising on the acquisition of Group and Group 1 Automotive. the operator of 12 car dealerships across the south of England, • Advising on the acquisition of including contractual allocation the operator of 30 motor vehicle of liability for contamination, franchised dealerships across trade effluent discharges and the southern home counties, waste management. Wiltshire and Dorset, focusing on • Advising on the environment and environmental liabilities and other safety aspects of the divestment environmental due diligence by a leading automotive retail issues in respect of the 43 sites in group of its leasing business. the portfolio.

10 dentons.com Contacts

Stephen Shergold Partner, London D +44 20 7320 6770 [email protected]

Helen Bowdren Partner, London D +44 20 7246 4866 [email protected]

Sam Boileau Consultant, London D +44 20 7320 6803 [email protected]

Pamela Coulthard Senior Associate, Glasgow D +44 141 271 5751 [email protected] ^Dentons is the world’s largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral Network. Dentons’ polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work.

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