Environment & Climate Change
Herzog Fox & Neeman's Environment and Climate Change practice offers regulatory, litigation and transactional counseling on a broad range of environmental issues. Consecutively named a top tier Israeli law firm in the field of environmental law by both domestic and international rankings, it is one of the most diversely experienced practices of its kind in Israel.
The practice advises leading domestic and multinational corporations doing business in Israel in a wide variety of sectors, including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, plastics, textile, food and beverage, printing, fabricated metals, electronics and semiconductors, desalination, waste treatment, energy production, oil and gas, communications and transportation. The practice also advises some of the largest Israeli and international financial institutions, investment funds, private equity funds, insurance companies and real-estate developers on environmental law-related matters.
Transactions and Financings
Herzog Fox & Neeman's Environment and Climate Change practice advises on numerous M&A transactions, joint ventures, financings and offerings, addressing environmental opportunity and risk management issues. Transactional advice includes environmental due diligence to identify and evaluate liability and financial risk, drafting and negotiation of contracts to allocate environmental risk, and post-closing advice on regulatory and operational matters as well as addressing transaction-triggered requirements for assessment and remediation.
The practice is uniquely experienced in advising financial institutions on lenders' environmental risks and works with some of the largest domestic and international financial institutions on environmentally-related risk management issues.
Project Development
The practice has been involved over the years in many of Israel's central project developments, advising on environmental law aspects and addressing a multitude of complex risk management issues, including representation before planning committees and regulatory agencies for the purpose of securing development and operational permits, advise on the preparation of environmental and health impact assessments and engagement in stakeholder dialogue.
The team has successfully represented developers, joint-venture partnerships, investors and lenders in a wide-range of complex project developments including real-estate projects, power stations, desalination plants, wastewater treatment plants, oil and gas projects and a variety of renewable energy projects ranging from solar to hydro to wind turbines. The team is also uniquely experienced in the field of environmental finance, having advised on a number of CDM projects under the Kyoto Protocol and on international carbon credit transactions involving leading international financial institutions.
Regulation and Compliance
The Environment and Climate Change practice regularly advises Israel's most notable industrial facilities and energy production plants on environmental regulation, licensing and risk management. The team is highly experienced in representing business sector clients before all related government regulators, including the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Ministry of Infrastructure, Energy and Water, Ministry of Heath, Water Authority, Ministry of Interior and related parliamentary committees. The practice has also accumulated extensive experience in drafting internal environmental compliance programs and assisting clients across all sectors in self-audit and external-audit procedures.
The practice frequently counsels industrial facilities and corporations doing business in Israel on matters relating to ground and groundwater contamination. The team's work in this area has included representation before regulatory agencies and negotiation of remediation project terms, as well as counseling on contamination risk management issues in M&A transactions and project financings.
Litigation and Crisis Management
Herzog Fox & Neeman's Environment and Climate Change practice represents both corporations and corporate officers in environmentally-related administrative, criminal and civil proceedings. The team is highly experienced in overseeing complex crisis management situations, including representation of industrial facilities and their officers before investigative tribunals following environmental incidents.
The Environment and Climate Change practice has also been involved in many of the major civil environmental cases in Israel, representing large industrial facilities, utilities, developers and corporate officers. In recent years the practice has successfully resolved a series of multi-million dollar class actions and toxic tort claims relating to alleged air pollution, noise and odor nuisances.
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Environment & Climate Change News & Insights
We would like to update you with a number of important updates recently published by the Ministry of Environmental Protection
Client Update | Key Innovations in Contaminated Land Policy
At the beginning of this new year, we wish you a productive and fruitful year ahead. Our department would be
Client Update | Knowledge Base in the Environmental Regulation Forum
We would like to bring your attention to a number of key updates in the registration and licencing of chemicals
Client Update regarding the Registration and Licencing of chemicals – Schedule regarding European Legislation and impending Israeli Law
We would like to draw your attention to the recently published draft regulations for public comment as part of regulatory
Client Update | Draft Regulation regarding Safety in the Workplace – Hazardous Chemical Processes and Exposure to Harmful Noise
BDI Code has published its 2017 Israel Legal Rankings, where, once again, our firm has been ranked the leading Israeli
BDI Code’s Ranking for 2017: Herzog Fox & Neeman ranked leading law firm in Israel!
We would like to inform you that an amendment to the laws regarding factory wastewater has been published (Corporation of
Client Update | Wastewater Laws Updated
We are pleased to send you an update summarizing the events in the field of environmental law in the business
Environmental Regulatory Forum | Newsletter January 2017
Keren Weiss
Associate
Administrative Law, Crisis Management, Environment & Climate Change, Litigation
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