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Ellen S. Tenenbaum is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office. She heads the Washington, D.C. office's Environmental Practice Group, and is a member of the Trial Department.
Ellen is an environmental and toxic tort litigator, who also has substantial experience in counseling clients on compliance with the full range of federal, state and local environmental regulation.
Clients have included sellers, purchasers, public development agencies, lenders and underwriters. Transactions involving a range of properties, including integrated steel mills, pulp and paper plants, electric and hydroelectric power production facilities, airports, glass manufacturing facilities, petroleum storage terminals, refineries, coal mines, gas stations, chemical manufacturing plants, food preparation facilities, textile mills, solid waste landfills and related transfer stations, and plastics manufacturing and forming plants.
Representative Experience
Asbestos
Represents defendants in asbestos and petroleum-related personal injury and property damage cases, as well as in asbestos-related bankruptcies
Environmental
Enforcement defense litigation involving alleged violations of hazardous waste, clean water and clean air laws in federal and state courts, as well as before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and numerous state agencies
Represents oil refiners, blenders and distributors, pharmaceutical and chemical companies, manufacturers of glass and plastic products, coal mines and independent energy producers in cost recovery and contribution cases under CERCLA and state Superfund laws and other contamination-related disputes
Extensive experience advising clients on the role of environmental issues in corporate, real estate, and public and private financing transactions
Counseled clients on the business implications of environmental regulatory and liability issues
Conducted environmental due diligence
Negotiated risk allocation in connection with a wide variety of national and international transactions ranging from a $1.2 billion purchase of a coal mining business to a $1.4 billion Euro divestiture of a packaging and closure business to an initial public offering of an independent energy producer to acquisitions involving brownfields properties
Toxic Tort
Acts as strategic national counsel to assist in the management of very large portfolios of toxic tort cases
Ellen is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia and is a member of the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia. She has authored articles on "GATT and Multilateral Environmental Treaties," published by the State Bar of California, and regulatory initiatives in the paint and coatings industries published by an industry association. During law school, Ellen was a note editor of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal.
Education
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1990
University of Maryland, B.A., 1984 | 