As European environmental and public laws can impact day-to-day business as well as corporate and finance transactions — Latham helps clients navigate the regulatory landscape, to address compliance, management, and liability issues.
We advise companies, purchasers, sellers, investors, borrowers, lenders, and underwriters who are based in, or doing business in the UK and Europe on a range of public law issues, including the full spectrum of environmental and climate change laws and regulations. We build global teams to help clients navigate potential environmental risks, liabilities, while also identifying the opportunities to obtain a competitive advantage both inside and outside of Europe.
Latham regularly provides advice to clients on issues across Europe, including energy and climate change regulations (such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme), ESG risks and opportunities, permitting and compliance, and State aid matters. When the matter involves a transaction, our lawyers work seamlessly with deal teams to identify and price environmental and other compliance risks during due diligence and identify value drivers.
Firm honored at 2024 Sustainable Debt Awards for supporting the global development of the market.
Firm earned a record-breaking 49 recognitions in the Litigation Daily’s Litigators of the Week column, #1 among all firms.
Four Latham teams were honored as winners of The American Lawyer’s prestigious Litigators of the Week column in 2023. The wins spanned multiple litigation practices and industries, including antitrust, intellectual property, securities, environmental and product liability, technology, and sports, among others.