Environmental law
Introduction and overview
Agile, strategic and clear environmental law advice, to deliver the results that our clients need.
The environment and climate change dominate the global risk agenda. How individuals, businesses, regulatory authorities and policy makers manage environmental risks, liabilities and opportunities, has never been more important.
Our environmental lawyers combine decades of experience providing regulatory and enforcement advice with astute transactional acumen, to enable clients to navigate the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and tackle the wide range of environmental issues affecting their business operations and lives.
How our environmental law solicitors can help you
Key services offered
As a full service law firm, Russell-Cooke is able to combine its multi-disciplinary expertise and bring together its specialists in environmental law with recognised experts from across the firm in regulation, public law, planning, real estate, health and safety, charities, corporate & commercial, and dispute resolution, to deliver a comprehensive service to our clients.
We can help you with:
- regulatory investigations and enforcement
- risk management
- compliance
- greenwashing & ESG
- audits
- statutory nuisance
- carbon emissions
- biodiversity net gain obligations
- contaminated land
- flooding
- permits & licenses
Why choose Russell-Cooke for environmental law?
About our regulation and public law team
We have a long-standing reputation for excellence. Frequently handling high profile challenges including complex judicial reviews and statutory appeals, we are known for our ability to lead our clients through the most complex cases, often with broader public interest elements and wider application.
In our non-contentious transactional work, we provide strategic advice to enable our clients to leverage opportunities, mitigate risks, exceed obligations and enhance reputation. In our contentious work, we act for claimants, defendants, prosecutors and interested parties. We understand that dealing with legal challenges or being involved in investigations and enforcement action can be complex, and that the outcomes can have wide ranging implications including significant reputational impacts. We assess the options for our clients in order to provide pragmatic, commercially focused and ethically minded solutions.
Industry expertise
Jeremy Phillips KC is ranked in Legal 500 2024: Environment—Leading Silks, London Bar.
Russell-Cooke is a signatory to the Greener Litigation Pledge.
Charging information
Charges are usually based on our hourly rates plus administrative charges and disbursements. We will provide you with an initial estimate of your likely legal costs and will update this as your requirements or the circumstances of the work change.
If you instruct us on a volume of work and/or can offer us a fixed term contract we may be able to offer discounted hourly rates.
We would be pleased to discuss your requirements free of charge and tailor a costs proposal accordingly.
Get in touch
If you would like to speak with a member of the team you can contact our regulation and public law solicitors by email, by telephone on +44 (0)20 3826 7524 or complete our enquiry form.
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