As leading experts in EU and UK environment & pollution law, and powered by our industry leading Waste Industry group, this is a different type of legal service.
The challenges for UK Industry coming up through developing 21st century waste, environmental and climate change law, are truly unprecedented. The Semple Fraser specialist offer and “brand” is so deeply specialist as to bring unique benefits to clients, and a distinctive range of “core” services geared very precisely to meet the these challenges:
Strategic business advice – bespoke focus with client executives on the areas of fundamental importance to their business. This is more about commercial growth and opportunity for the business than about liability risk awareness. The work we do here is fundamental to plotting the course for the business in the face of developing EU and UK regulation – an absolute must as climate change and environmental law develop over the next decade.
Our “legal lobbying” service – the logical service extension for clients seeking to implement strategic advice and deal with strategic concerns at the highest level. We deliver this usually in partnership with one of the leading political lobbying firms in Westminster and Brussels. It is a team game: political know-how and connections of our partners in Westminster and Brussels, plus our comprehensive knowledge of current and developing EU law and our drafting of the critical legal submissions.
End of waste and waste definition law – our undoubted flagship service, our “niche” in EU waste definition law, including waste to energy and waste to product. With our clients across the spectrum of UK industry, we have driven key changes in the law in this field through the Courts and regulatory engagement – nor will it stand still, and we continue to exploit for clients new ways of transforming by-products, residues and even hazardous wastes into legal products. This field remains a solid market differentiator of Semple Fraser.
Complex legal problem solving – when businesses are in a bind over the complexity of legislative and regulatory pressures, when the pressure starts to get in the way of the business operations, and clients need a robust defence or negotiation with regulators, we have the respect of the regulators and the Government, and the track record in providing the negotiated solution (and, when required, the “litigated” solution).
Liability risk management and expert contractual liability transfer – this is where industrial concerns are faced with a specific and distinct liability risk which needs defined, managed and controlled.
Specialist due diligence – given all of the above, if it is a thorough but pragmatic and commercial due diligence you need in this area, this is “meat and drink” to such a deeply specialist outfit with genuine “helicopter view” reporting for the senior executives, alongside the requisite detail to support the client’s operational and technical management.
Today, our unrivalled environmental insight helps organisations such as URS Corporation, Syngenta, Kier Mining and William Tracey. Moreover, Semple Fraser has recently developed an environment and pollution risk assessment service, specifically tailored to the commercial needs and circumstances of the property industry.
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