Sustainability is a critical core value of corporations today, not only to ensure the safety of the environment for generations to come, but also to protect the company's reputation and bottom line. One of the largest of its kind in the Southeast U.S., Waller's environmental practice assists clients in evaluating and managing risk—helping businesses expand while remaining environmentally sensitive.
At the intersection of environmental law and strategic business objectives, Waller has the skills needed to come up with innovative approaches for clients. Those clients have depended on Waller's deep roster of talent for many years, and have come to expect us to deliver consistent, valuable results when faced with seemingly insurmountable permitting, expansion, compliance or other challenges—all in a friendly, engaging manner. We provide support through Administrative and Legislative Advocacy, Site Development and Brownfields, Transactional Due Diligence and more.
Clients choose Waller for our:
• Comprehensive and cost-effective team approach
• Skill and knowledge of legislative and administrative processes
• Relationships with key players
• Ability to utilize state and federal programs to limit and quantify client risk
• Mindset towards making deals work
Whether assisting clients with transactional matters such as site selection for new facilities, negotiating mergers and acquisitions, or representing them in complex tort actions arising from contamination claims, Waller has years of experience and success in protecting clients' interests.
- Wrote Government Institutes' Tennessee Environmental Law Handbook
- Advised the Tennessee Responsible Water Use Coalition to achieve the first major revision to the state's Clean Water Act in 20 years
- Prior service in the Environmental Division of the Tennessee Attorney General’s office and the Environmental Enforcement Section of the Land and Natural Resources Division at the United States Department of Justice
- Featured speakers at the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Annual Environmental Show of the South
- Regularly recognized by Best Lawyers
- Strategic and substantive approach to meet clients' goals
- Experience and success at the state and federal level
- Well versed in drafting proposed legislation and rules, defeating proposed legislation, or modifying rules to protect clients
- Advise parties on many of the most important urban projects in Tennessee
- Assist clients with due diligence, risk management, and permitting issues
- Develop commercial property with significant contamination under state brownfield programs
- Instrumental in crafting and enabling legislation for Tennessee's Voluntary Cleanup Oversight and Assistance Program
- Completed more sites in State Remediation Section than any other firm in TN
- Identify, prioritize, and resolve environmental risks in transactions so that businesses can proceed confidently
- Develop creative arrangements for managing environmental liabilities, including indemnities, insurance, carve-outs, and escrow agreements
- Manage the creation of and review due diligence materials provided by environmental consultants to ensure quality control
- Oversee development of major retail centers in greenfield and brownfield settings