Environment
UK Guide 2025 : South West
Band 2
Contact number
(0117) 917 3000Chambers Review
Osborne Clarke's environment team offers expertise across contentious and non-contentious matters, including contamination issues and environmental permitting. It regularly works on renewables and waste-to-energy projects. It advises clients from the utilities, technology and house-building sectors, among others. It also offers notable experience in defending prosecutions brought by the Environment Agency and other regulatory bodies.
Work Highlights
- Osborne Clarke advised Biffa on the environmental aspects of its acquisition of a construction and demolition waste company.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Osborne Clarke has a very good commercial understanding of the law and can be quite creative in its application. It is rare to find a law firm that thinks that creatively and commercially."
"Osborne Clarke is informed and experienced."
"Osborne Clarke has a very good commercial understanding of the law and can be quite creative in its application. It is rare to find a law firm that thinks that creatively and commercially."
"Osborne Clarke is informed and experienced."
Notable Practitioners
Matthew Germain is highly knowledgeable on environmental matters pertaining to energy and infrastructure projects, as well as providing regulatory compliance advice in relation to waste, water and climate change issues. He also assists clients facing investigation and enforcement action by the Environment Agency.
"Matthew Germain's commercial understanding was impeccable and he was adding value to the transaction."
"Matthew Germain is really good at strategic thinking."