Naturally Resourceful
Practical resources for cleanup, compliance, and redevelopment.
100%
Environmental
From Due Diligence to Done
The Firm takes a comprehensive, lifecycle-based approach to the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, partnering with clients, regulators, and technical teams from project conception through deal structuring, civil design, remediation planning, land development, regulatory closure, and occupancy. We deliver practical, efficient, and cost-effective strategies that remove regulatory barriers, unlock financing, compress timelines, reduce cleanup and redevelopment costs, secure economic incentives, and limit exposure to liability and reputational risk. Our goal is to help clients transform challenging, often-ignored properties through successful, high-value redevelopment projects.
By the Numbers
301
Florida Brownfields Program Projects
350
Voluntary Cleanup Tax Credit Applications Submitted
53
Landfill/Dump Site Redevelopment Projects
158
Brownfields Area Designations
93
Building Materials Sales Tax Refund-Eligible Projects
54
Former Fueling Station/Automotive Dealership Redevelopment Projects
171
Brownfields Site Rehabilitation Agreements
95
Affordable/Workforce Housing Reuse Projects
71
Former Agricultural Property Redevelopment Projects
23
Golf Course Redevelopment Projects
Practice Areas
Our attorneys and technical staff, including former FDEP and EPA officials, guide public and private clients through all stages of brownfields redevelopment, including eligibility assessments, Brownfield Area designations, negotiating BSRAs, securing financial incentives, and overseeing cleanup and redevelopment. Our work helps clients transform underused, contaminated, and distressed sites into productive residential, commercial, industrial, and community spaces that promote public health, environmental stewardship, and economic revitalization.
The Firm provides counsel to landowners, developers, and local governments on all aspects of Superfund and CERCLA matters, from preliminary assessments, historical reviews, and RI/FS support to remedy selection, enforcement negotiations, implementation oversight, redevelopment, and long-term stewardship. We advise and assist clients with liability allocation, cost recovery, PRP negotiations, strategic responses to EPA 104(e) information requests, comfort letters, and Prospective Purchaser Agreements.
Our environmental remediation attorneys and technical staff, including former FDEP and EPA officials, help clients understand, manage, and resolve contamination issues under CERCLA, RCRA, and Florida law. We guide owners, developers, lenders, and local governments through site assessment, remediation, Voluntary Cleanup Agreements, regulatory closure, and long-term stewardship, addressing liabilities, enforcement, contribution claims, and allocation issues across federal and state programs.
Our redevelopment practice focuses on one of real estate’s hardest challenges: turning contaminated or environmentally impaired properties into safe, financeable, and profitable projects. We help our clients redevelop complex sites, like former gas stations, golf courses, agricultural lands, and landfills, by aligning remediation, land development, and vertical construction so that cleanup obligations, permits, and construction schedules move forward in lockstep.
The Firm leverages one of Florida’s deepest Brownfields practices to help clients unlock economic incentives that make complex cleanup and redevelopment projects feasible. Drawing on experience from 300+ projects and extensive BSRA and VCTC work, we design strategies that align remediation, capital stacks, and community benefits for developers, institutional landowners, local governments, and affordable housing sponsors.
The Firm’s transactional environmental practice reflects a core principle: successful deals require a precise understanding of environmental risk and a practical strategy to manage that risk without slowing the pace of business. We provide focused, technically fluent counsel on real estate, corporate, and financing transactions, and structure and negotiate environmental provisions throughout deal documents to ensure risks are accurately identified, rigorously analyzed, and appropriately allocated.
The Firm’s wetlands, natural resources, and conservation practice advises Florida developers, landowners, utilities, agricultural interests, and local governments on projects involving wetlands, surface waters, wildlife habitat, and protected natural areas. We guide clients through feasibility reviews, ecological evaluations, permitting, mitigation, compliance, and agency negotiations involving federal, state, and local government agencies.
The Firm represents clients across Florida in environmental permitting, compliance, and enforcement matters before local, state, and federal agencies. Drawing on decades of experience with Florida’s complex regulatory framework, we provide strategic, practical guidance on wetlands, water resources, waste, hazardous materials, air, and stormwater issues to minimize risk, prevent delays, and support sustainable, compliant operations.
Our litigation practice supports property owners, developers, lenders, and local governments in prosecuting and defending environmental claims under CERCLA, RCRA, and Florida Chapters 376 and 403, and filing challenges to agency action under Florida’s APA. We combine statutory and regulatory expertise with cleanup, brownfields, and enforcement experience to develop litigation and administrative petition strategies that are sound, scientifically credible, and commercially practical.
Our environmental policy and regulatory affairs practice is built on understanding how environmental laws, public policy, and political processes intersect. We advise and advocate before federal agencies, the Florida Legislature, state agencies, and local governments to shape and improve laws and regulations governing pollution control, clean air, land use, and highly scrutinized industrial facilities such as waste-to-energy plants and incinerators.
Regulatory Development
Environmental Policy Advocacy
may
07
2025
