Cleanups and Redevelopment

We help clients contractually transfer and otherwise manage regulatory and other risks through fixed-price cleanup contracts, purchase and sale agreements, and otherwise.

Environmental Insurance and Risk Management

We work closely with clients to develop liability risk transfers, to obtain customized environmental insurance, and otherwise to manage and mitigate environmental risks.

Renewable Energy

We provide regulatory counsel with respect to off-shore wind, we assist Brownfield and LEED-builders, and we have developed unique captive and other insurance solutions to support forest-related carbon offset credits.

Welcome to Hill & Kehne

Hill & Kehne brings a unique combination of skills to provide coordinated, cost-effective, and best-in-class solutions to complex environmental challenges.

Our areas of practice include:

Cleanups and Redevelopment
Environmental Insurance
Renewable Energy, Green Building, and Carbon Reduction Credits

Although most of our work is transactional, we have decades of litigation experience at trial and appellate levels. We advise clients on litigation risks as well as representing them in courts and administrative tribunals. Part of our charter is to promote environmental benefits in everything we do.

Featured Project

Hill Selected as Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of RACER Trust

Michael Hill has been selected to serve as the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel of the Environmental Response Trust created to clean up and redevelop the 89 industrial properties left behind in the GM bankruptcy. With an unprecedented dual emphasis (remediation and redevelopment), the Trust is the largest environmental trust in U.S. history.

News and Projects

H&K Assists in First Privatization of DoD Cleanup
Hill & Kehne helped the U.S. Air Force obtain environmental insurance and broad contractual protections with respect to the 2010 cleanup of 600 acres at the McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento, CA. This risk transfer is the second for which Hill & Kehne provided assistance (the first was completed in 2007 and was the first “FOSET” applied at a Superfund site).
Hill Co-Authors BNA Article on Tax/Accounting Benefits
The article describes how insured ﬁxed-price cleanups can be used to respond to new and emerging accounting requirements, achieve federal income tax savings, and lower cleanup costs while maximizing cost certainty.