Both environmental and health & safety regulation are rapidly developing areas of law which impact a wide range of businesses. These are areas which demand specialist knowledge and experience. Environmental concerns can often develop into headline issues in transactions. Similarly, any health & safety incident will be of significant concern to an organisation especially the impact on the employees, the board and the brand. More recently, we are seeing carbon issues becoming more and more prominent in the mindset of organisations.

Davidson Chalmers is very well positioned to advise our clients in these areas and offer hands on expert advice. Our team will interact with other areas of the firm and the professional teams, and we aim to ensure that we provide pragmatic advice backed by sound judgement to ensure that issues are resolved/managed and our clients continue to achieve their commerical goals.

We have acted for clients in Scotland, across the UK and internationally including SMEs, the public sector and plcs. We have advised on:

• Waste management, contaminated land, asbestos, noise nuisance, water discharges, fish farming, radioactive substances and sewerage issues;
• Environmental aspects of corporate, property, finance and project deals including environmental insurance;
• Health & safety (advisory, governance structures and defence of prosecutions);
• Regeneration including appointments of environmental consultants;
• Environmental taxes, environmental protest issues, litigation and defence of prosecutions, licensing, permitting, notices and appeals;
• Renewables, carbon (CRC) and climate change issues;
• Environmental liabilities associated with insolvency.