N.W. Bernstein & Associates, LLC

Where Finance Meets the Environment: The lawyers at N.W. Bernstein & Associates, LLC have environmental, real estate, financial and litigation experience to help clients solve multi-disciplinary environmental problems, including helping to structure environmentally sensitive business transactions. Our Primer on the Global Carbon Markets (updated October 2009) provides an overview of the $115 billion carbon markets and analyzes in detail the EU system and pending U.S. legislation. We can provide advice on the rapidly changing Clean Air Act regulations and on loans and grants to green industries. We have developed relationships with counsel in London and Frankfurt that provide us with a strong UK/EU capability, including financings on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM). We also can provide advice on more traditional U.S. environmental matters such as CERCLA, Brownfield redevelopment, the Clean Water Act, RCRA citizens’ suit defense, and on challenging proposed new government regulations. Contact the law firm regarding mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, toxic tort defense, environmental law, or commercial property purchases, sales or leases.

Salans

Salans (Frankfurt, Germany) is different from many conventional international law firms. As a relatively young firm we aim to be more agile, more responsive and more innovative than our peers. We encourage an entrepreneurial approach and employ some of the brightest lawyers in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate. We are a diverse but highly integrated firm, with over 750 lawyers operating across borders and cultures. Our 21 offices are located in the world’s main commercial centres and also in emerging markets, in many of which we pioneered international legal work.

Our lawyers are mainly nationals of the countries in which they operate. They have a deep knowledge of their market and local legislation. We are bound together by a strong shared ethos and a common professional approach. We aim to get things done, to share our clients’ objectives and ambitions. Our primary focus is to achieve for our clients a successful commercial outcome.