PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

We advise medium and small-sized enterprises as well as industry and property owners and property companies on all aspects of environmental law as well as on public construction law.

Our main services focus on:

  • Environmental due diligence as part of company acquisitions
  • Water protection law
  • Emission protection law
  • The law governing soil protection and environmental pollution
  • Assisting on permit procedures in all of the legal fields mentioned
  • Criminal cases involving environmental offences, in which we work together with colleagues who specialise in criminal law
  • Urban development contracts
  • Building permit and local development planning processes, working together with the Real Estate Practice Group
  • Planning regulation procedures (stop orders, construction clearance), working together with the Real Estate Practice Group
  • Litigation and contract drafting in all of the practice areas mentioned

The key to success and a basic prerequisite for being able to work in all of these legal fields effectively is to have a close link between technical and legal know-how. We work together with renowned engineers and firms of assessors and attach importance to a regular and systematic exchange with the other participants in the projects.