Corporations and their directors and officers are at increasing risk of facing criminal allegations and serious financial penalties imposed for not properly addressing environmental issues. With an increase in enforcement activities, new environmental reporting requirements and uncertainty regarding climate-change laws and regulations, financial assurance and other emerging issues, most industry sectors are seeing an increase in their environmental exposures.
The experience the professionals in our Global Environmental Practice have gained advising thousands of clients has reinforced our understanding of the need to bring a multidisciplinary approach to solving environmental risk issues.