Thomas M. Duncan

Tom is a partner with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP. He concentrates his practice on environmental transactional matters, regulatory counseling, and environmental litigation. He is also a member of the firm’s air practice group. Tom handles a wide range of environmental matters, including brownfield redevelopment projects and transactional-related environmental due diligence. He represents entities in multi-party state and federal litigation involving cost recovery and indemnity claims, as well as contribution claims for contamination and remediation conducted under CERCLA, RCRA, and state laws.

Tom represents private equity investors, developers, manufacturers, and institutions in transactions involving current and former industrial sites in which environmental risks and liabilities were critical to the structure of the transaction and investment analysis. In connection with those representations, Tom negotiates the environmental aspects of transactional agreements, regulatory consent agreements, and prospective purchaser agreements. He has negotiated technically complex consent decrees with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and state agencies, and has conducted extensive internal environmental audits.

Tom came to the firm from an AmLaw 100 firm in Philadelphia, where he was an attorney in the environmental and energy practice group. In that role, he represented and counseled a broad range of clients in regulatory and transactional matters and litigated cases before state and federal courts, the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board, and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. Prior to that, Tom served as an assistant counsel to the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board.