Environmental
issues are playing an increasingly important role in corporate, real estate
and commercial financing transactions. Do you need a better understanding
of how environmental regulations affect your business or your transactions?
Would you like to receive CLEcredits at the same time?
The Schnapf Environmental Law Center offers two types
of environmental seminars.
The two-hour course is a overview of the principal laws affecting
business transactions. There is no charge for this course but we are
reimbursed for traveling expenses.
The second course is a more detailed four-hour seminar entitled
"Environmental Issues in Real Estate and Corporation Transactions".
The fee for the seminar is $25 per credit hour. Discounted rates are
available for groups over ten registrants.
The course is accredited in New York for four continuing legal education
credits. This course is intended to help registrants identify, negotiate
and allocate the environmental liabilities that are often encountered
in business transactions. Topics include an overview of the scientific/technical
issues often encountered in environmental law; scope of liability for
owners and operators of real property, parent and successor corporations,
lenders and trustees; state and federal voluntary disclosure policies;
SEC disclosure requirements for environmental liabilities; and state
property transfer statutes.
This seminar will also help registrants understand issues that
need to be considered in developing the scope of due diligence, what
the role of the environmental consultant and lawyer are in the due diligence
process, how to tailor a due diligence program to the particular needs
of a transaction and how to use the information developed during environmental
due diligence in a way that will bring maximum value to your client.
Registrants will learn how to evaluate liabilities and defenses in a
business transaction; various methods for structuring and drafting of
transactions to minimize environmental liability. The course will also
provide information on the various federal and state incentives that
are now available for financing the development of contaminated properties
as well as on the new environmental insurance policies that may be used
to help address environmental liabilities associated with a particular
transaction.
Registrants will receive a 130 page manual. The manual may be purchased
separately for $95. 