Due Diligence
Property and business transactions can present significant and unknown environmental liabilities to the involved parties. EnviroSense has considerable experience helping clients qualify, quantify, and manage risks associated with these transactions whether they involve mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, refinancing, bankruptcy, foreclosure, or development. We assist our clients in negotiating purchase prices based on our ability to objectively evaluate environmental liabilities for a buyer, seller, or stakeholder.
EnviroSense's Due Diligence services include:
- Site History Reviews, File Reviews, and Owner/Operator Interviews - to determine whether prior uses of the property and nearby properties pose environmental liabilities.
- Environmental Compliance Evaluations and Audits - to determine if prior operations at a property complied with applicable environmental regulations, to identify applicable environmental permits for the business, and to estimate costs to come into compliance.
- Site Investigations - to assess contamination in indoor and outdoor air, sediment, soil, surface water, and ground water.
- Remedial Action Assessments - to determine if proposed remedial strategies for a property are cost-effective, to propose remedial strategies if none exist but are recommended, to estimate the time and cost associated with remediating a property to regulatory-approved standards, to identify potentially limiting deed restrictions that could exist on a property for environmental conditions, and to develop remedial strategies consistent with the intended property use and business model of our client.
- Insurance Vehicles - that can control and cap costs for our client that proposes to clean up a contaminated property.
Our reports are prepared according to ASTM standards and are written in clear, concise terms that facilitate an understanding of the risks.
EnviroSense has considerable experience with legal counsel that specializes in environmental aspects of these transactions and can refer our clients to such experts if appropriate. If you are in need of a due diligence report, contact the professionals at EnviroSense today.