Profile
Julie P. Dostal is a member of the Environmental Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Philadelphia office. Julie advises clients on the environmental aspects of complex real estate and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions. Her practice focuses on helping clients identify, assess, allocate, and mitigate environmental risks and liabilities in connection with the acquisition, development, financing, operation, and disposition of assets across a broad range of industries. She regularly negotiates, structures, and drafts complex contractual agreements, environmental insurance products, and other bespoke risk transfer strategies that form the basis of the environmental risk transfer process. Julie also structures and manages environmental due diligence efforts, analyzes environmental liabilities and regulatory obligations, and develops practical risk management strategies designed to advance business objectives.
Julie also advises clients involved in the development, acquisition, financing, and operation of digital infrastructure assets, including data centers, cloud computing facilities, and other technology infrastructure projects. Her experience includes addressing environmental permitting, sustainability, and risk management considerations associated with these rapidly evolving sectors.
Her clients include private equity companies, institutional investors, lenders, and real estate developers, with engagements that range from traditional corporate and real estate transactions to specialty transactions such as the acquisition, sale, and redevelopment of landfills and high-risk industrial facilities.
Concentrations
- Environmental transactions
- Brownfield redevelopment
- Environmental risk management and mitigation
- Environmental risk insurance products
- Environmental due diligence
- Real estate, corporate and M&A transactions
- Digital infrastructure, data center and cloud computing
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주요 경력
- Structured and managed the environmental due diligence review for a private equity client’s acquisition of a specialty wire manufacturer with operations throughout the United States and Canada, evaluating environmental permitting requirements and compliance obligations, advising on known contamination liabilities and environmental risk allocation, and negotiating and manuscripting a portfolio environmental insurance program.
- Structured and managed the environmental due diligence review for a private equity client’s acquisition of a highly regulated specialty chemicals manufacturer with operations throughout the United States, as well as the United Kingdom, and Germany, coordinating multidisciplinary environmental, regulatory, and technical workstreams; drafting and structuring environmental representations and indemnities, and advising on environmental risk mitigation strategies to support deal execution.
- Conducted environmental permitting reviews for energy and alternative projects across the United States, evaluating federal, state, and local permitting requirements and advising clients on permitting strategies to support project development, financing, acquisition, and operation.
- Advised lenders and financial institutions on the financing of industrial, commercial, and residential assets by conducting environmental due diligence, evaluating environmental risks and liabilities, and structuring contractual agreements and environmental insurance coverage to mitigate lender exposure.
- Represented private and publicly traded purchasers of environmentally high-risk businesses in the management and formulation of environmental due diligence and risk management programs, including for the following businesses: airport operators, maintenance repair and operations (“MRO”), oil and gas, hazardous material and hazardous waste transporters, chemical manufacturing, and heavy industrial.
- Represented developers and corporations in negotiating and manuscripting site-specific and portfolio environmental insurance products, including pollution legal liability and contractors pollution policies.
- Represents developers, investors, and property owners in the acquisition, remediation, and redevelopment of environmentally impacted properties in New Jersey, overseeing environmental due diligence, coordinating remedial and permitting strategies, and managing environmental consultants through the preparation and implementation of remedial plans and establishment of Remedial Action Permits.
수상 및 주요 활동
- Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2026
- Team Member, a Law360 “Real Estate Practice Group of the Year,” 2023
- Team Member, a Law360 “Environmental Practice Group of the Year,” 2022
- Co-Chair, Philadelphia Bar Association, Environmental and Energy Law Committee, 2026
학력 및 자격사항
- J.D., University of Virginia School of Law
- B.A., Politics and Philosophy, summa cum laude, University of Pittsburgh
- Pennsylvania