A wealth of experience that enables us to provide innovative solutions to the complex environmental issues that impact our clients
Overview
Our Environmental Law Group provides sophisticated and practical advice to clients across a broad spectrum, including in particular clients in environmentally sensitive businesses such as oil and gas, utilities and power generation, pharmaceutical, waste management and real estate development.
Our wealth of experience, as well as an ability and commitment to draw resources from the full array of practice areas within our firm, enables us to provide innovative solutions to the complex environmental issues that impact our clients.
Expertise
Our Environmental Law Group comprises lawyers who specialise in European and Irish environmental law, providing advice to businesses across a range of industry sectors and to local authorities and other statutory bodies on all aspects of environmental law, including:
- Regulatory compliance
- Environmental licensing and permits
- Environmental impact assessment (SEA and EIA) (including judicial review proofing)
- Waste management
- Habitats legislation
- Toxic and dangerous substances
- Development on the foreshore
- Contaminated land
- Environmental due diligence
- Advice on REACH regulations
- Advice on WEEE Regulations
- Noise complaints and other nuisance issues
- Litigation, including defending challenges to approvals/consents and defence of prosecutions by local authorities and the Environmental Protection Agency
Directory Comments
"... highly experienced in the sector, Michael O'Reilly is especially skilled in questions of environmental law. Clients appreciate that 'he can successfully thrash out any issues that arise'". Chambers, 2011
"Michael O'Reilly's group at McCann FitzGerald has a broad practice that is noted for its expertise in infrastructure work. He is regularly involved with other colleagues in 'proofing from challenge' projects from a planning and environmental perspective". The Legal 500, 2011