Compliance/Due Diligence

Benesch’s Compliance and Due Diligence services encompass a broad range of industrial, commercial and public client environmental compliance and acquisition/divestiture consulting services. These services assist clients in achieving and maintaining facility compliance in an ever-changing regulatory environment, as well as in support of property transaction due diligence obligations. Our team is prepared to help our clients obtain permits and authorizations and we will are skilled in preparing supporting documentation and reports. 

Our areas of expertise include:

-  Natural Resources

-  Brownfields

-  Remediation

-  Indoor Air Quality

-  Wastewater and Stormwater Discharges

-  Hazardous and Solid Waste Management Facilities

-  Air Emissions

-  Other State and Local Special Use Authorizations

-  SARA Title III Tier I/II and Toxic Release Inventory Reporting

-  Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures (SPCC) Planning

-  Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention Planning and Process Design

In addition to these core services, Benesch also assists clients in conducting comprehensive environmental compliance audits and developing environmental management systems to assist in maintaining compliance and seeking continual improvement of their environmental performance.  

In addition, Benesch has been performing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) for over 20 years.  We have assisted such clients as US West; Sears Roebuck and Co.; AT&T; Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad;  Martin Marietta Aggregates; Wells Fargo and others with thousands of  due diligence investigations related to acquisitions and/or divestitures that have primarily involved Phase I and II ESAs.