Corporate: Environmental
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New York, NY 10017
Ms. Huber is counsel in Davis Polk & Wardwell’s Corporate Department, advising on a broad range of environmental matters. As a member of the Environmental Practice Group, she advises clients on identifying and analyzing environmental liabilities, and on structuring risk-allocation options, including indemnifications and environmental insurance policies, particularly in the context of mergers and acquisitions, real estate investments and bank lending transactions. The environmental liabilities on which she focuses include those relating to hazardous substance litigation, such as asbestos, silica and MTBE litigation. She also advises clients on the disclosure of environmental liabilities in capital markets offerings and on the treatment of environmental liabilities in bankruptcy. Much of her work involves working with environmental engineers and insurance brokers. She has advised various of the firm’s corporate and private equity fund clients, including Aventine Renewable Energy, Tyco Electronics, VF Corporation, DLJ Merchant Banking and Stockbridge Real Estate Fund.
In her pro bono practice, she has advised The Rainforest Alliance, a not-for-profit environmental organization, The Citizens Advice Bureau, a Bronx-based settlement house, as well as the Women’s Prayer Summit, a non-profit women’s religious organization. She has also participated actively in the firm’s mentoring program with Bushwick High School in Brooklyn, New York.
Ms. Huber joined Davis Polk in 1996 and became counsel in 2004.
She graduated, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993 and in 1996 received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was articles editor of the Annual Survey of American Law. She is admitted to the bar of New York.
Ms. Huber has written various memoranda and spoken on issues relating to environmental liabilities in the context of financings and acquisitions, including a recent comprehensive overview entitled “Disclosure of Environmental Liabilities in SEC Filings.” She is a member of the Section of Environment, Energy and Resources of the American Bar Association, and the Environmental Law Institute.
Ms. Huber is listed as a leading environmental lawyer in Chambers USA (2007 & 2008).