Practice Areas & Industries: Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A.

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Florida has some of the most elaborate environmental permitting, regulatory, and liability laws in the United States. The Environmental Practice Group at Gunster Yoakley assists clients in managing complex local, state, and federal environmental regulations. The group provides clients with effective, experienced counsel in all areas of environmental permitting, regulatory, and transactional matters, administrative challenges, state and federal court litigation, and legislative affairs to assist in navigating through Florida's intricate environmental landscape.

The Environmental Practice Group, which brings together real estate, land use, environmental, and litigation attorneys, offers comprehensive environmental counsel, providing services to a wide range of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, major Florida corporations, institutional investors, developers, landowners, lenders. local governments, and individuals. Practicing before all local, state, and federal government agencies and courts in Florida, our attorneys have strong relationships with regulatory officials and handle the most complex and sophisticated transactions and negotiations for clients.

Combining the broad talents and experience of its attorneys, Gunster Yoakley's Environmental Practice Group has the skill, knowledge, and resources to provide top-quality legal representation, limit environmental liability, and reduce business risk for our clients.

Services Available

• Base Closings, Marina, and Shipyards Remediation and Reuse
• Brownfields Designation, Rehabilitation, and Redevelopment
• Brownfields Site Selection and Acquisition
• Coastal Construction and Permitting
• Endangered and Threatened Species
• Environmental Due Diligence
• Environmental Litigation and Appeals
• Environmental Permitting
• Golf Course Remediation
• Hazardous Waste Handling and Compliance
• Marina Facilities Permitting and Compliance
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Petroleum Contaminated Site Cleanup
• Real Estate Transactions
• Soil and Groundwater Contamination Assessment and Cleanup
• Solid Waste Facility Permitting and Compliance
• Superfund Site Negotiation and Litigation
• Urban Development and Land Use
• Water Resources and Wetlands Permitting

Representative Matters

• Brownfields site selection, acquisition, designation, rehabilitation, and redevelopment for major corporations, developers, end-users, lenders, and local governments.
• Counsel on environmental due diligence and transactional matters nationwide for over $6 billion in stock and asset purchases and acquisitions of industrial and commercial properties.
• Representation of potentially responsible parties ("PRPs") at complex, multi-party state and federal Superfund sites throughout the United States, including formation of PRP groups and steering committees, selection of common counsel, review of remedy design and selection, negotiation of settlements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state and local regulatory agencies, selection of remediation contractors, oversight of community relations efforts, and evaluation and allocation of costs among PRPs.