Praised by clients for its 'excellent technical skills', the environment and safety team at Ashurst provides environment and safety advice across projects, transactions and litigations, particularly across work concerning ESG and climate change. Eleanor Reeves, who has led the team since 2016, is praised for her 'excellent and practical advice' to a host of the firm's leading clients. Isabelle Laborde often works closely with Reeves, assisting clients in both the public and private sector on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious environmental matters. James Nierinck primarily works on corporate and property deals across a number of sectors including waste, energy, and transport. Energy transition specialist Joanna Fox, a member of the firm’s environment group, is a key port of call for clients operating across the renewables sector.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘Probably the strongest environment team in the UK today that has grown significantly under the brilliant and creative leadership of Eleanor Reeves. They have a very dynamic and fresh culture and are all about substance rather than form. They are efficient, critical, caring, enquiring, professional, strategic, forward thinking and imaginative.'
‘The environment team at Ashurst provide responsive, solutions-based advice to clients. I can rely on them to provide a legal view on how best to resolve issues, rather than simply reporting to clients.'
Key clients
- Great British Nuclear
- Oxford Properties
Work highlights
- Advising on Great British Nuclear's (GBN) site selection strategy to deploy up to 24 GW of civil nuclear by 2050.
- Advising Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) on the UK's CCUS and Hydrogen programmes which support the UK's net zero climate change targets.