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Reimagining Real Estate: Repurposing in Italy

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Repurposing a property can unlock new opportunities; however, in Italy this journey is often accompanied by various legal, regulatory, and practical considerations that must be addressed to ensure a successful transition. In...more

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What the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Means for U.S. Companies

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The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which received formal approval from the European Council on May 24, obliges companies to own up to the environmental and human rights harms they...more

Carlton Fields

Impact Investing: Keys to a Responsible Exit

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Impact investing has been gaining new prominence recently to respond to the environmental and social challenges that the traditional frameworks of philanthropy alone could not address. Impact investors generally seek to...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Should Assigning a Commercial Real Estate Purchase Agreement Impact Your Environmental Due Diligence

In a commercial real estate transaction, it’s common for the original buyer to assign the purchase agreement prior to closing or for a different party to otherwise take title to the relevant property. If you’re the party...more

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PFAS and your business: Identifying and investigating PFAS impacts

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Most businesses understand the need to conduct environmental due diligence when buying or selling real estate, but many businesses may not have a good understanding of how to investigate and mitigate the potential risk posed...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Environmental Due Diligence Requires Reporting of Oil Contamination to the Maryland Department of the Environment

In a significant regulatory change that will impact real property transactions and loan financings, the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) joins a handful of states that requires the reporting of historical...more

Brooks Pierce

Risk and Reward: Environmental Issues in Real Estate Development

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Throughout 2021 and the first half of 2022, the commercial real estate market in the Southeast has been remarkably active. Despite rising interest rates and economic uncertainty, analysts expect this trend of high activity to...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Updated ASTM Standard for Phase I Environmental Site Assessments Just Released

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Seyfarth Synopsis: We noted earlier this year that the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) was in the process of updating its Standard Practice for Environmental Site Assessments: Phase I Environmental Site...more

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PFAS Update: Significant Expansion of PFAS Regulation Under RCRA

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In a letter to the Governor of New Mexico on October 26, 2021, the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that EPA would initiate two important rulemaking efforts to regulate PFAS...more

Clark Hill PLC

The Phase 1-2 Punch: Seventh Circuit Affirms Strict Enforcement of All Appropriate Inquiries (AAI) and ASTM Issues Revised...

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At the same time that Federal courts are strictly enforcing the requirements for All Appropriate Inquiries, ASTM International (“ASTM”) has issued additional, potentially challenging revisions to the E1527 Standard Practice...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Holland & Knight's China Practice Newsletter: May-June 2021

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Holland & Knight invites you to read our China Practice Newsletter, in which our authors discuss pertinent Sino-American topics. The firm provides legal assistance to Chinese investors and companies doing business or making...more

Environmental General Counsel PC

Vapor Intrusion: Closing the Gaps in Due Diligence

Standard due diligence practices may not necessarily identify all the potential liabilities associated with the rapidly evolving field of vapor intrusion. ...more

Miller Canfield

Environmental Due Diligence in Real Estate Transactions During the COVID-19 Crisis

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COVID-19 and Baseline Environmental Assessment Timing - Real property transactions (purchases, leases and foreclosures) need not be put on hold due to uncertainty surrounding the ability to obtain available environmental...more

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Storage Tank Compendium/Correspondence: ASTM Visual Sump Pump Test Standard...

The Petroleum Marketers Association (“PMAA”) publication Weekly Review published a March 26th article addressing a new ASTM Standard for spill bucket and sump testing. Spill bucket and sump testing is required by 40 C.F.R. §...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Practical Tips for Managing Environmental Issues During the Coronavirus Pandemic

Due diligence and compliance challenges require flexible approaches and creative solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic is impeding the ability of businesses to perform transactional environmental due diligence and usual...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Anatomy of a Real Estate Transaction–Due Diligence Inspection Period

Merriam-Webster defines “development” as setting forth or making clear by degrees or in detail. In music, the development is elaboration of “a musical idea by working out of rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme.”...more

White & Case LLP

Four steps to managing risks in desalination projects

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As global water shortages worsen, desalination projects are likely to proliferate. Sponsors that can manage project risk will capture significant value while helping the world meet its water needs. Increasing pressure to...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

The Necessity of Evaluating Vapor Intrusion Risks during Environmental Due Diligence

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Introduction - Vapor intrusion has emerged as an important legal, scientific, and policy issue over the last decade. With this issue’s growing importance, it is prudent for persons acquiring, leasing, or developing...more

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Environmental Assessments: Blog Commonground Discusses Old Soap Factories

The Environmental Due Diligence section of the blog Commonground addresses a variety of issues associated with environmental and/or due diligence assessments of improved and unimproved real properties. A March 9th post...more

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On-Site Hospital/Radium: August 25th Commonground Blog Post Addresses Assessment Question

The blog Commonground has an August 25th post addressing a question regarding the assessment of a former on-site hospital that had utilized radium to treat tumors. The blog Commonground is a forum for discussion of a...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

How to Effectively Manage Vapor Intrusion Risks When Acquiring and Developing Property

With increasing concern and attention being raised by regulatory agencies and the public on protecting building occupants from exposure to vapor intrusion (VI)-related contaminants, parties acquiring and developing property...more

Williams Mullen

Williams Mullen Construction Industry Newsletter - Spring 2016

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2016 begins with the issuance of this Construction Industry Newsletter, our fifth. In this issue, we have articles on vapor intrusion, liability for project design, enforcement of mechanic’s lien and bond waiver clauses, and...more

Smith Anderson

Addressing Environmental Issues in Real Estate Development

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Dealmakers sometimes overlook environmental issues when negotiating transactions, leaving important business and legal issues unaddressed until they inevitably pop up shortly before closing and send everyone scrambling. This...more

Snell & Wilmer

The EPA Approves New Environmental Due Diligence Standard

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On December 30, 2013, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final rulemaking recognizing the newly amended ASTM standard practice for Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessments, E 1527-13 as...more

Bilzin Sumberg

New Standard Will Help Clarify Environmental Conditions For Homebuilders

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When you are buying raw land to build homes, you need to know what you are buying. A 100-acre tract of farmland may look pristine to the untrained eye, but an environmental professional may discover a leaking underground...more

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