Beyond its proficiency in managing intricate environmental risk and due diligence affairs, especially within hazardous waste management, heavy manufacturing, chemical, and energy sectors, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP‘s Washington DC-based environmental transactions team regularly collaborates with the firm’s broader corporate department to advise clients on a range of corporate transactions. These range from mergers and acquisitions and divestitures to real estate, financing and capital markets matters. Annemargaret Connolly leads both the firm’s regulatory and environmental transactional practices and is known for her prowess in assessing environmental liability risks in a transactional context, as well as providing comprehensive regulatory advice on sustainability, climate change and related ESG topics. Counsel Matthew Morton advises corporations, private equity sponsors and other institutional investors on a range of transactional and restructuring projects relating to environmental matters, including due diligence, environmental risks and liabilities, and ESG factors, while John O’Loughlin is an expert in environmental, health and safety regulatory matters, particularly in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical device and food manufacturing sectors.
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Testimonials
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- 'For such a small team, they do an extraordinary job and are known throughout the industry as the best at what they do.'
- 'Matthew Morton is very experienced in business as well as being an expert in environmental law.'
- 'John O'Loughlin may be the most versatile, intelligent and yet straightforward lawyer I have ever worked with. I highly recommend him.'
- 'The Weil environmental team has an unmatched depth of experience across a broad array of transaction types.'
- 'Annemargaret Connolly and Matthew Morton are both smart, practical and efficient lawyers who don't lose sight of the big picture when negotiating the environmental portions of deals. It is always a pleasure to work with them because I know the deal will run smoothly with respect to environmental.'
Key clients
- Advent International Corporation
- AltC Acquisition Corp.
- American Securities
- BCI
- Blue Bird Corporation
- Brookfield Asset Management
- Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
- CIBC Capital Markets
- CIIG Capital Partners, Inc.
- Conair LLC
- CPP Investments
- CVC Capital Partners
- Deutsche Bank
- Ember Infrastructure Management, LP
- Foundation Building Materials LLC
- Genstar Capital, LLC
- GHK Capital Partners LP
- Glencore plc
- Goldman Sachs & Co.
- J.P. Morgan
- The Kroger Co.
- Max US Bidco Inc.
- MGM Resorts International
- Mizuho Securities
- Morgan Stanley
- MUFG
- PAI Partners
- Paragon Medical
- RBC Capital Markets
- Sanofi S.A.
- TD Securities
- TPG Capital LP
- TruArc Partners
- Westinghouse Electric Company, LLC
Work highlights
- Advised The Kroger Co on its merger with Albertsons Companies, Inc in a transaction with an Albertson enterprise value of approximately $24.6 billion.
- Advised Glencore PLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, as the shareholders of Viterra Ltd. (Netherlands) in its approximately $18 billion business combination with Bunge Ltd, a global agribusiness and food company that buys, sells, stores, transports, and processes oilseeds and grains to make protein meal for animal feed and edible oil products for commercial customers.
- Advised Brookfield and Brookfield Business Partners in their pending sale of Westinghouse Electric Company to a consortium of Cameco Corporation, a producer of uranium, and Brookfield Renewable Partners, in a transaction that implied a Westinghouse enterprise value of $8 billion.
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Matthew Morton
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLPPractice head
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Annemargaret Connoly