Harold M Shaw III

Respective Experience

Financial, Corporate, and Real Estate Transactions

• Identifying and assessing environmental risks presented by proposed transactions
  
  
• Ensuring that environmental diligence meets recognized ASTM standards, EPA’s All Appropriate Inquiries rule, and the clients’ needs
  
  
• Working with environmental consultants and other technical specialists to quantity and manage risks
  
  
• Preparing and negotiating transaction documents
  
  
• Taking steps to shield clients from various environmental costs and liabilities

Brownfields and Environmental Contamination

• Evaluating significance of identified contamination
  
  
• Determining how to address contamination under Brownfields and state voluntary cleanup programs
  
  
• Dealing with environmental regulators to arrange for satisfactory resolutions of identified contamination
  
  
• Determining appropriate future uses of property in light of contamination and response options and arranging for state acceptance of proposed property uses
  
  
• Completing steps to obtain “no further action” determinations

Regulatory Advice

• Advising industrial, energy, pharmaceutical, real estate, and other types of clients about a wide range of environmental, health, and safety regulatory obligations involving such things as: 
  
  
  • hazardous waste;
    
    
  • solid waste;
    
    
  • hazardous materials transportation;
    
    
  • water discharges;
    
    
  • stormwater management;
    
    
  • air emissions;
    
    
  • chemical management;
    
    
  • PCBs;
    
    
  • asbestos;
    
    
  • pesticides;
    
    
  • consumer products; and
    
    
  • workplace health and safety.

Litigation

• Assisting in defense of:
  
  
  • regulatory enforcement actions;
    
    
  • environmental contamination cases;
    
    
  • product liability actions; and
    
    
  • international arbitration of alleged environmental harms.

Management Systems and Compliance Programs

• Preparing environmental management system manuals
  
  
• Developing standard operating procedures for activities affecting environmental matters
  
  
• Writing operations and maintenance programs for management of asbestos, mold, and other potential environmental concerns
  
  
• Conducting environmental training
  
  
• Performing compliance audits