Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Environmental

Toby Chun is Co-Head of the Firm’s Environmental Practice. His practice focuses on managing the environmental aspects of complex corporate and real estate transactions, with experience across a diverse range of businesses and industries in the United States and around the world. Having served as lead environmental counsel for many private equity firms and public companies on some of their most environmentally challenging transactions, Toby helps his clients achieve their business objectives by evaluating the environmental risks and liabilities associated with target companies and properties, working with environmental consultants to analyze and contextualize known and potential liabilities in a thorough and balanced manner, negotiating transaction documents on environmental terms consistent with his client’s goals, helping to optimize environmental insurance coverage, managing the resolution of environmental issues, and keeping abreast of the latest developments for emerging contaminants and other environmental topics.

Rated AV Preeminent in Martindale-Hubbell; Recognized as a Global Leader in Who’s Who Legal: Environment; Highly Ranked for Environment: Mainly Transactional (District of Columbia) in Chambers USA

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association; APABA-DC

University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1996; Stanford University, M.S., Environmental Engineering and Science, 1993; Stanford University, B.S., Biological Sciences, 1992

Teaching Experience: Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School, Environmental Transactions and Bankruptcy, 2021 - 2023