Environmental Due Diligence

The Environment Law Department’s lawyers specialize in problems of applying the environmental legislation and can offer high-qualified services on the Environmental Due Diligence. These legal services involves our lawyers to conducting  the whole legal Due Diligence of a company’s activity to ensure they meet environmental requirements and finally provide a legal opinion and recommendations.

As an example, we can present you with some similar projects from the wealth of  experience of GRATA law firm’s Environment Law Department in terms of Environmental Due Diligence:

• Conducting Environmental Due Diligence for international oil- producing companies – in terms of fulfillment of legal obligations and detecting entrepreneurial risks.
• Conducting Environmental Due Diligence for large power corporation in terms of share purchase bargain of one of the leading European banks.
• Conducting Environmental Due Diligence for one of leading Russian banks in terms of observance of Environment protection legislation.
• Analyzing  the situation of environmental legislation observance by Kazakhstani oil-producing company that is known as one of top 10 leading Kazakhstani oil-producing companies.
• Conducting Environmental Due Diligence for a group of uranium-producing companies in interests of multinational investor.

During the Environmental Due Diligence our lawyers consider and analyze all documents of a company relating to “nature use” and “environment protection”. In accordance with a legal opinion provided by our lawyers, information about the real situation of business subjects (notably nature users),the observance of environment protection requirements and legal recommendations are generally composed.

Environmental Consulting

GRATA law firm offers a wide spectrum of services on legal maintenance of environmental aspect of a business. We can provide valuable advice on any issues of Environmental Law.

We have offered our services to hundreds of large oil-producing, power, petrochemical and uranium producing companies. We can specify some points from our last experience in this sphere:

• Legal Inspection and consultancy during collecting documents and application delivery to the Ministry of Environmental Protection for obtaining environmental permits in interests of large foreign oil-producing companies. As a result of our lawyers’ work, all declared emissions norms were justified by the Ministry and fixed in the Permits.
• An analysis of environmental legislation in terms of production and consumption wastes was made for one of the largest oil-producing consortiums.
• Provided a recommendation on legal responsibility in nuclear waste treatment sphere to one of Kazakhstani leading uranium producers and exporters.
• Provided legal advice on sewage recovery issue caused by oil construction for an oil-producing company.
• Provided a legal opinion on economical environment damage assessment issue and recommendations on payments for emissions into the environment to a variety of large international companies.
• Consulting nature users on issues of the competence of the Environmental protection authorized bodies and an Inspection legitimacy of these bodies.

Environmental infringements and responsibility

Many large, oil and gas producing companies and large non-ferrous metal exporters asked our law firm for help in protecting their legitimate interests in environmental lawsuits. Recently we have successfully fulfilled the following service projects:

• Protected legitimate interests of a large mining and processing enterprise in courts of 1st instance, appellate and courts with supervisory authority on a suit of the territory Authorized Environmental Protection body for pollution of land and water resources.
• Protected interests of a range of large oil-producing companies, including some international, during inspections by Environmental Prosecutor’s office, the territory authorized environmental protection bodies and the authorized Natural resources research body.
• Judicial defense of oil-producing company in a suit of a Regional Prosecutor’s office on excessive emissions issue.