The firm LAURENCE LANOY – Avocats has developed an in-depth expertise in the areas of Environmental, Health and Safety Laws. It also advises and represent French, foreign and multinational corporations and local authorities and governments. Its practice also includes environmental audits, due diligence, financial guarantees and M&A.
Main fields of practice
— Industrial environment
Classified facilities, Seveso and nuclear plants
Polluted sites and soils, reconversion of brownfield sites
Waste, WEEE, RoHS, transit/sorting, recycling, disposal
Water (sanitation, dredging, wastewater treatment plants)
Quarries
Greenhouse gases emission permits, carbon markets
Carbon capture and storage
Air quality (indoor, ambient, industrial emissions, transport)
Environmental audits of acquisition, IPOs
Maritime law, dismantling of ships, marine pollution
Natural and industrial risks
Occupational health and safety
Protection of nature (Natura 2000, biotope legislation)
National and international law on protected species (CITES, CMS)
Environmental criminal law
— Mining law
Requests for mining titles (concessions, claims, exploration permits, transfer)
Permits for operation (AOTM, DOTM)
Environmental requirements for mining projects (fauna, flora, environmental impact assessment)
Relationships with surface owners (easements, indemnification, land management)
French, overseas and international projects
Geothermal energy
Oil and gas exploration and exploitation
— Sustainable development law
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Environmental information
Environmental management and HSE
Health law
— Energy law
Wind farms and photovoltaic plants, biomass
Regulated purchase rates, power purchasing agreements
Operation permits
Energy efficiency, energy efficiency certificates
— Nanotechnology law
French and European laws on nanomaterials - nanoparticles
Regulation and liabilities
Industrial risks
A few current and recent assignments
— Counsel in HSE, M&A and Corporate Finance:
Advising a foreign group and its French subsidiary, and engaging litigation against a large group for decontamination of a site affected with historical pollution, at stake over 10 million €.
Advising and representing a mining group in France and French Guyana for obtaining mining titles (concessions, exploration permits, transfer) and exploitation declarations and permits.
Advising a power supplier concerning the regulation applicable to its power generation site from renewable sources.
Assisting a real estate group for the acquisition and conversion of industrial brownfields.
Advising an industrial group for the dismantling of ships.
Advising Dutch and British groups on the environmental aspects of IPOs and drafting issue prospectus.
Advising a US group on the environmental aspects of the acquisition of a French industrial company.
Advising a large investment fund on the environmental aspects of the acquisition of a French agro-food company.
Advising an oil company on environmental matters including chemicals and marine pollution.
Advising a US automotive group on the environmental aspects of the acquisition of a French company.
Advising a petrochemicals company for all environmental matters in the context of a merger and creation of a subsidiary for regeneration of its used products.
Assisting an African government on the opening of the oil and natural gas market and on the new environmental legislation.
— Litigation:
Action for damages of a municipality against the French State due to historical pollution affecting a former industrial site intended for urban reconversion, for 80 million €.
Action of several mining groups before administrative courts for litigation regarding mining concessions, exploration and exploitation permits.
Initiating summary proceedings for three waste transport companies in the context of the Limeil-Brévannes landfill case, at stake 2.5 million €.
Representing a large quarry company for all of its litigation in France.
Representing a Canadian paper mill regarding the environmental issues for the clean-up obligation of its site in France.
Action for damages for a site owner towards the previous operator for soil pollution.
Representation of an industrial group against a European investment fund in a dispute arising from the remediation of three industrial sites in France, at stake US$30 million.