Environmental Risks in Real Estate Transactions

This environmental issues in real estate transactions course is delivered by a solicitor with a Master’s degree in Environmental Law. She was a former council member of the UKELA (United Kingdom Environmental Law Association) and dealt with all aspects of environmental issues and the environmental issues act in real estate. This was because they affected property and corporate transactions, landfill sites & waste management, brownfield regeneration, environmental issues in corporate transactions and so on.

Formerly listed as one of the top environmental lawyers in her area in the Legal 500, she now lectures on commercial property, and environmental law, and delivers Redcliffe’s environmental issues in real estate transactions training.

• This environmental issues in real estate transactions course helps you understand the totality of environmental considerations affecting property transactions, and land contamination risk management (LCRM): not just the 'contaminated land regime'.
• How to interpret environmental reports and spot possible issues.
• How to help clients understand and manage risks through dedicated environmental risk management training.
• Understand how to apportion some environmental risks between parties to transactions and which ones cannot be apportioned or indemnified.

• This environmental issues in real estate transactions course gives lawyers the big picture of environmental risk in real estate.
• It goes into detail on how to work with specific issues and provides solutions or methods to understand and manage risks.

Environmental issues in real estate transactions training is a ‘must know’ for anyone closely involved in real estate asset or share acquisitions including:

• Commercial real estate solicitors, trainees and paralegals dealing with brownfield land development. Particularly those buying real estate property with environmental issues along with corporate support or acquisitions of industrial or investment property.

This course is also a ‘nice to know’ for:

• Real estate lawyers who commission environmental searches and reports.

Far too often, real estate lawyers commission environmental reports without fully understanding one main thing. Search companies often confine their assessment to the risk of land falling within the limited scope of the contaminated land regime, and miss out or do not draw attention to other significant environmental contamination in real estate or real estate environmental issues.

Thus a 'clear search' or 'pass' may hide significant issues, leading to litigation and even negligence claims against firms - the result of 'false negatives'. Search companies are often not proactive in drawing attention to the shortcomings of their reports. In some cases, consultants can cause problems with their ground investigations which could result in aborted deals and liabilities for a seller.

Redcliffe’s environmental issues in real estate transactions course will expose the full breadth of environmental risks that should be considered and taken into account. Especially when dealing with any land that could have been used for purposes that could have left many forms of harm on the site. It will outline where these risks are going to fall and the extent to which this can be managed or apportioned in the documentation and other ways.

Environmental issues in real estate transactions training will also outline a methodology for presenting and assessing such risks to clients, what risks cannot be changed but have to be accepted as part of the deal risk, and the role of insurance in risk management.

Case studies and sample reports are included as are practical exercises involving problem areas in environmental risk. Standard precedents are discussed and critiqued.