International and Cross-Border Climate Change

Climate change – and the world’s response to it – creates both immense challenges and unparalleled business opportunities. Governmental authorities, corporations, investment funds, financial institutions, insurers and other stakeholders are rethinking how they do business due to the unprecedented and complex challenge of rapidly developing new and effective strategic policies, business responses and solutions related to the global climate change issue. Sullivan & Worcester LLP has responded to these challenges by amassing an integrated multi-disciplinary team to assist its clients around the world. The team consists of lawyers from the firm’s Environmental & Natural Resources; Energy, Infrastructure & Project Finance; Corporate; Mergers & Acquisitions; Asset Based and Structured Finance; Securities & Corporate Finance; Tax; Investment Management; Private Equity; Emerging Companies; Technology; Intellectual Property; Real Estate; and Litigation Groups. Our team can provide creative problem-solving and comprehensive advice, not merely legal solutions. In addition, we provide cost-effective, pragmatic and tailored strategies and business-oriented approaches in a timely fashion.

Representative Client Work

S&W lawyers have advised on a wide range of international and cross-border climate-change issues, including the representation of:

A company in China involved with waste-to-energy projects interested in developing emissions-reduction credits
A Canadian private equity fund on worldwide legal trends related to carbon markets and cap and trading systems, including cross–border, mandatory and voluntary carbon markets; legal requirements; and the conformity of a CDMP or JIP
An Ivory Coast private engineering firm as a proponent for two CDM projects (Biomass and production of energy)
A Canadian corporation as a proponent for a CDM project (Biomass and production of energy) in Asia
An Australian corporation as a proponent for a CDM project in Africa (Wind Energy Power)
An international financial institution regarding the legal nature of a CER
An Asian governmental entity on certain legal requirements related to its CDM fund, including an international review of rules and requirements related to CDM funds and drafting part of its CDM regulation
A multinational oil and gas corporation regarding a voluntary buying agreement of VERs
A carbon stock exchange regarding the legal nature of a carbon unit
One of the leading multinational producers of electricity regarding the ownership of CERs and drafting a master agreement
A Canadian corporation as a proponent for two CDM projects (Biomass and energy) in Latin America
A Canadian corporation as a proponent for a CDM project (rehabilitation of a landfill site) in Latin America
A multinational oil and gas corporation on climate change policies and public disclosures
A Canadian corporation as a proponent for a CDM project (wastewater treatment plant and treatment of slug) in Africa
A leading global smelting corporation in connection with a voluntary agreement with a governmental authority to reduce its GHGs
A leading global smelting corporation on climate-change policies and public disclosure, international requirements regarding reduction of GHGs and the Kyoto Protocol