Proskauer Rose LLP’s environmental team is based in New York and offers comprehensive assistance to clients in the chemical, industrial, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical sectors. The team excels in various facets of environmental law, covering enforcement, compliance, and transactional advice. Their expertise extends to managing intricate merger and acquisition transactions, as well as handling capital market deals, underwritings, and financings. The team is led by Aliza Cinamon, noted for her knowledge of environmental issues related to complex corporate, real estate, financing, and bankruptcy transactions, and is actively involved in ESG, sustainability and climate change, as well as in environmental compliance and enforcement proceedings.

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Key clients

  • Arkema
  • Dansons US, LLC
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Havencrest
  • 48-18 Van Dam Holdings LLC
  • AEW Capital Management, L.P.

Work highlights

  • Represented Arkema in the acquisition of the performance adhesives unit of Ashland Global Holdings Inc., in a multi-national transaction valued at approximately $1.65 billion.
  • Advised Dansons US, LLC in the sale of its business to W.C. Bradley Co. Environmental counsel for this transaction included evaluating the scope of potential environmental liabilities and drafting complex provisions in the equity purchase agreement and renegotiated leases to properly allocate those risks among the parties.
  • Advised Morgan Stanley in a highly successful restructuring of von Drehle Corporation, a North Carolina-based paper tissue and paper towel manufacturer, handling all the environmental aspects of these transactions.

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Aliza Cinamon