Laura Truesdale

Laura Boorman Truesdale advises commercial real estate developers, businesses, lenders, manufacturers, and retail industry clients on a wide variety of environmental issues related to business and real estate transactions, redevelopment projects, regulatory compliance issues, and environmental litigation.

Laura’s practice focuses on advising clients – such as real estate developers, lenders and financial institutions, contractors, and buyers/sellers of contaminated properties – on the environmental aspects of a wide range of real-estate related matters, including:

• Brownfields redevelopment
• Environmental due diligence
• Permitting, enforcement defense, and incident closure
• Participation in hazardous waste, dry-cleaning and petroleum cleanup programs
• Exposure to contamination
• Above and underground storage tank management
• Vapor intrusion remediation
• Stormwater, wastewater, and wetland management

In addition, Laura regularly counsels manufacturers, financial institutions, and retail industry and corporate clients on a broad range of environmental risk and compliance issues such as environmental due diligence in complex business transactions; regulatory compliance; audits, reporting and self-disclosure; and waste and materials handling and disposal. Specifically, Laura regularly advises investors on environmental issues related to the acquisition of large-scale renewable energy project portfolios.

Laura is part of Moore & Van Allen’s interdisciplinary Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) team. The ESG team helps public and private companies, as well as private equity sponsors, investment advisors, and lenders to develop and implement ESG strategies, achieve sustainability and climate-related goals, and comply with associated legal requirements in a rapidly changing regulatory environment.