Larry Bio

Lawrence P. Schnapf is an environmental attorney based in New York City and New Jersey with over 25 years of national environmental transactional experience and is the principal of Schnapf LLC. With this background and his geology training, Larry is uniquely qualified to handle the legal and technical issues commonly encountered with environmental issues.

Larry primarily concentrates on environmental risks associated with corporate, real estate and brownfield transactions; commercial financing including asset-based lending, syndicated loans, mezzanine loans and distressed debt; bankruptcy, workouts and corporate restructuring. He has extensive experience with brownfield redevelopment and financing, including representing affordable housing developers and assisting local development corporations or not-for-profit organizations with their brownfield planning programs. Larry also counsels clients on environmental, represents clients in federal and state environmental litigation, enforcement actions, administrative proceedings and private cost recovery actions. He has also served as liaison counsel for PRP steering committees.

He has also written numerous articles on environmental law, is the general editor/contributing author of “Environmental Issues in Business Transactions” published by the Business Law Section of the ABA and is also the author of “Managing Environmental Liability in Transactions and Brownfield Redevelopment” published by JurisLaw Publishing. He is also contributing author for several chapters of “Brownfield Practice and Law: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Properties” published by Matthew Bender and the Matthew Bender “Environmental Law Practice Guide”.

Larry is the co-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Hazardous Site Remediation Committee, co-chair of the NYSBA brownfield task force and a board member of the NYC Brownfield Partnership. He was also the chair of the Brownfield Committee Force of the Environmental Business Association of New York.

He is Chair of the ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law. He is also a member of the board of BNA’s Environmental Due Diligence Guide and a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists.

Larry has also served on a number of ASTM Task Groups, including Chair of the legal subcommittee for the ASTM E1527 Phase 1 task force  and Co-Chair of the legal sub-committee for the ASTM Vapor Intrusion Task Group.

Larry is an adjunct professor of environmental law at New York Law School and a faculty member of the NYLS Center for Real Estate Studies where he teaches “Environmental Issues in Business Transactions”, “Environmental Law and Policy” and a mini-course on brownfields. He is also on the faculty of the Center for Christian Studies at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church where he teaches “The Bible and the Environment.”

He is named to the 2010-11 New York Super Lawyers-Metro Edition; was listed in the Chambers USA 2009-10 Client Guide of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, and the 2011 Super Lawyers-Business Edition.

Larry has received the AV® Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible Peer Review Rating.

You can visit the website of the Schnapf LLC Center at www.schnapflaw.com.