Environmental

Environmental issues today are complex, as they continue to be shaped by evolving regulation, heightened public scrutiny, and the competing priorities of development and the need for sustainable growth. Goodmans helps clients navigate these increasingly complex matters with practical, forward‑looking legal strategies that anticipate risks, unlock development potential, and support responsible decision‑making across the full lifecycle of a project.

We counsel corporations, boards, corporate directors and executives on environmental matters including:

• Environmental Approvals, Permitting and Regulatory Guidance – We advise on provincial and federal approvals, environmental assessments, excess soil requirements, compliance strategies, and permitting for complex industrial, commercial, and infrastructure projects.
• Contaminated Lands, Brownfields and Redevelopment – Our team structures and negotiates remediation strategies, Record of Site Condition pathways, liability protections, and risk‑management tools to facilitate the redevelopment of brownfield and historically contaminated sites.
• Environmental Litigation and Enforcement Defense – We represent clients in contaminated land disputes, civil environmental litigation, director and officer liability matters, professional negligence claims, and the defense of regulatory and quasi‑criminal environmental prosecutions and environmental orders.
• Environmental Risk Management in Transactions – We provide due diligence, contract structuring, indemnity negotiation, and environmental risk assessment in mergers, acquisitions, financings, restructuring and insolvency, and major real estate and development transactions.
• Climate Change, Cleantech and Sustainability Advisory – Goodmans assists clients with climate‑related disclosure obligations, renewable energy projects, carbon‑related considerations, product stewardship programs, and the regulation of emerging environmental technologies.

We support both public and private sector clients in understanding and navigating their environmental obligations, whether embedded in transactions, project development and operations, or enforcement scenarios. Clients trust us to pre-empt potential issues and act with confidence and urgency.

We combine deep industry knowledge with leading environmental law expertise, staying at the forefront of legal and industry developments.