Seth Kerschner

Seth Kerschner practices environmental law and assists clients with transactions, litigation, climate change, regulatory compliance, site remediation, sustainability, biodiversity, and energy transition matters. His practice involves working with public and private companies, governments, and nonprofit organizations. Kerschner advises domestic and international clients on environmental matters in the context of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, financings, securities offerings, bankruptcies, and real estate transactions. In transactions, he advises clients through each environmental aspect of a deal, from designing and coordinating transaction-specific environmental due diligence assessments through negotiating agreements to handling closing and post-closing matters.

He also represents clients in environmental litigation, including disputes relating to water pollution, air emissions from oil and gas facilities, physical risks associated with climate change, longer-term shifts in climatic patterns, contaminated land, and emerging contaminants. His work on energy transition matters involves advising clients on greenhouse gas emission reduction and offset projects, and sustainability and climate change disclosure.

Kerschner has counseled a government client through several meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including COP21, which resulted in the Paris Agreement. He is a partner at White & Case LLP.

TEACHING:

• Policy and Legal Context for Sustainability Management