Adam is a partner advising on a broad spectrum of UK, EU and international environmental and regulatory matters. His principal focus is transactional, project and compliance advisory work. He also represents clients in regulatory enforcement and environmental litigation matters.
Adam has been routinely ranked as a ‘rising star’ by Legal 500 and an ‘associate to watch’ by Chambers UK with the following references:
- Chambers UK 2020 notes that Adam is a "very capable" lawyer” who is "able to give very clear advice in subjects which aren't always that clear." He is also praised by a clients for the way in which he "turns things around super quickly."
- Chambers UK 2019 states that clients value Adam’s ability to “focus on the key legal issues and explain them to a non-legal audience simply and concisely”
- Legal 500 UK 2019 notes that Adam is ‘recommended’ for Environmental matters
- Chambers UK 2018 describes Adam as “highly experienced and technically capable” and notes “he’s confident because he knows his stuff”
- Legal 500 UK 2017 highlights that Adam “delivers detailed knowledge in an appropriate way”
- Chambers UK 2017 describes Adam as “a very patient professional, very even-tempered and grounded" and someone who "explains the potential solutions along with the pros and cons in a very clear, concise and understanding manner”
Adam routinely advises on a range of regulatory compliance and operational issues, including pollution and contamination risks, climate change and emissions trading, product compliance and liability, environmental permitting, licensing, waste management and producer responsibility obligations, and operational health and safety. Adam has particular expertise in EU product safety and chemical regulation under REACH, CLP, RoHS and CE marking.
Adam has assisted clients with multi-jurisdictional projects, compliance initiatives and lobbying activities in areas such as product safety and stewardship, climate finance and carbon emissions, renewables, brownfield redevelopment, waste treatment and disposal, and site decommissioning and remediation.
Adam has significant experience advising on environmental issues and risks arising in corporate, finance and real estate transactions, having acted on a number of complex transactions involving heavily contaminated sites. He advises clients how to eliminate or mitigate environmental liability risks, by negotiating appropriate risk transfer mechanisms or by putting the client in an informed position where they can take a commercial view on their potential exposure to liabilities.
Adam’s contentious practice encompasses both criminal and civil environmental matters. On the criminal side, he advises clients in relation to regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by the Environment Agency, HSE and other regulators. On the civil side, Adam advises clients in relation to carbon trading disputes and nuisance actions.
