Nowadays one cannot conceive businesses, whether unfolding under hazardous auspices or not, without thinking of compliance and liability triggered by the environmental regulations. Accordingly, environment protection and care for climate change became issues of everyday life for most undertakings. Having consolidated and expanded its environment practice in the last years, Maravela|Asociații delivers fine legal advice on the complexities of environmental regulations and liabilities, related health and safety matters, permitting and compliance programs and helps clients understand the environmental matters that impact their businesses.
Our environment lawyers together with their peers from other practices areas focus, amongst others, on assisting clients with environmental liabilities in corporate and mergers and acquisitions transactions, regulatory compliance programs, National Securities Commission environmental disclosure obligations, representation in commercial, criminal and/or administrative proceedings, decommissioning, drafting and submitting the underlying documentation for obtaining environmental operational permits, integrated and/or non-integrated environmental authorizations, related licenses, exemptions from restrictive requirements, environmental site assessment, advice on the European Union climate and energy legislative package, risks and opportunities presented by climate change and sustainable development.
Our team of lawyers works closely and cooperates with environmental specialists, regulators, auditors, agencies, NGOs, governmental bodies so as to streamline the efforts for a better compliance of the businesses with environmental regulations.
A major European metallurgical group, with respect to a successfully settled ICC arbitration regarding alleged infringement of environmental investment obligations under a privatization agreement.