Seth Kerschner

Seth practices environmental law, and assists clients with transactions, litigation, climate change, regulatory compliance, site remediation, sustainability, biodiversity and energy transition matters. His practice involves work with public and private companies, governments and nonprofit organizations. Seth 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 & 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.

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

SUMA PS5720 Policy and Legal Context for Sustainability Management