Ellen represents clients that have included sellers, purchasers, public development agencies, lenders and underwriters. She handles transactions involving a range of properties, including integrated steel mills, pulp and paper plants, electric and hydroelectric power production facilities, airports, glass manufacturing facilities, petroleum storage terminals, refineries, coal mines, gas stations, chemical manufacturing plants, food preparation facilities, textile mills, solid waste landfills and related transfer stations, and plastics manufacturing and forming plants.

Ellen has significant experience advising clients on the role of environmental issues in corporate, real estate, and public and private financing transactions. She also counsels clients on the business implications of environmental regulatory and liability issues and conducting environmental due diligence.

While in law school, Ellen was a notes editor of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal.

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• Represents oil refiners, blenders and distributors, pharmaceutical and chemical companies, manufacturers of glass and plastic products, coal mines and independent energy producers in cost recovery and contribution cases under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), state Superfund laws and other contamination-related disputes
• Negotiated risk allocation in connection with a wide variety of national and international transactions ranging from a $1.2 billion purchase of a coal mining business to a $1.4 billion Euro divestiture of a packaging and closure business to an initial public offering of an independent energy producer to acquisitions involving brownfields properties
• Acts as strategic national counsel to assist in the management of very large portfolios of toxic tort cases

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