Lindsey combines her comprehensive environmental and regulatory knowledge with her transactional experience to provide added value to her industrial, commercial and energy clients.
Lindsey is a shareholder in the firm’s environmental and energy practice groups. In her environmental practice, Lindsey advises a wide range of industrial, energy, and commercial clients regarding environmental and liability issues, particularly those arising in the transactional context. She has served as environmental counsel in hundreds of successful mergers, acquisitions, and real estate transactions where she counsels clients regarding environmental liability and risk allocation; manages environmental due diligence; coordinates with environmental consultants and experts; and drafts and negotiates environmental provisions in purchase agreements, contracts and leases.
Lindsey advises industrial, energy and commercial clients on permitting and regulatory compliance in areas including waste, water, chemical regulation, brownfields, Superfund, air, and occupational health and safety. She regularly represents clients in negotiations and communications with the Environmental Protection Agency and state and local environmental agencies and departments, including those relating to enforcement and release reporting matters, as well as voluntary cleanup and brownfields programs. Lindsey also advises clients regarding environmental review processes (e.g., NEPA, NHPA, and MEPA) and land use and zoning matters.
In her energy practice, Lindsey provides regulatory counsel to clients regarding environmental matters, project permitting, generator interconnection, and compliance. She regularly serves as counsel to renewable energy developers in connection with construction debt and tax equity financing, where she provides federal, state, and local permitting and state and local regulatory support. She also advises energy developers and electric utilities regarding NEPA and NHPA triggers and requirements in connection with large-scale wind, solar, and transmission projects. Additionally, Lindsey has assisted renewable energy clients with navigating generator interconnection processes and provides counsel regarding compliance with federal regulations including the FPA and PURPA.
Prior to joining the firm, Lindsey worked as a legal intern for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 in Kansas City, Kansas.
