As India's corporate sector faces growing environmental compliances and CSR requirements, MV Kini guides its clients through India's environmental laws, case law, and latest policy developments of relevance to the corporate sector from a long-term risk management perspective. The Firm has establish an enviable practice in environment law, which is recognised worldwide.
We help clients chalk out a compliance strategy - obtaining or renewing environmental permits under the various laws including those relating to the use and management of water, air, forests, chemical substances, hazardous wastes, e-waste, plastic waste, construction & demolition waste, bio-medical waste, ozone depleting substances, insecticides as well as food safety laws. Moreover, our lawyers regularly interact with the respective government agencies supervising these different sets of environmental laws, including the departments in charge of issuing import/export approvals.
We assist companies with their environmental due diligences and assessments of whether an Environmental Clearance / Environmental Impact Assessment needs to be obtained.
Clients are guided through their interactions with the State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs), the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the central Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC).
MV Kini is skilled in turning around challenging non-compliance situations, such as in a company's immediate post-merger or acquisition phase, or after receiving show cause notices from SPCBs.
Our environmental lawyers throughout India also assist manufacturing companies with obtaining all permits to set up their units, including all EHS-related consents and clearances, fire compliance, factories' law compliances, local body approvals, etc. Our team takes pride in assisting its clients while maintaining highest ethical standards.
Our team monitors closely all environmental cases handled by the National Green Tribunals, High Courts and the Supreme Court and closely collaborates with MVKini's litigation team in this regard, thereby also offering seamlessly integrated legal services to our corporate clients.
We have successfully defended clients in several high-stake litigation cases against government agencies. MV Kini assists clients with conveying their feedback on draft environmental laws and guidelines to the MoEF&CC.
Key transactions
Highlights of MVKini ’s experience includes:
Assisted a large international hazardous waste recycler to obtain its export permit, one of the
first ever to be granted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests;
MV Kini has specific expertise with international companies in their interactions with various
pollution control boards and the MoEF to turn around challenging non-compliance situations in
their immediate post-merger or acquisition phase.
MVKini has also won high-stake litigation cases against government agencies.
Advised the government of Rajasthan during its initiation of the solid waste management
project as per the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol.
MV Kini advises large Indian trade bodies with their submissions to multilateral environmental
agreements. It also assists clients in conveying their feedback with more recent environmental
laws and government guidelines to government bodies and Ministries.
Environmental Updates:
Our Environmental law team: Ms. Els Reynaers, Mr. Tavinder Sidhu and Mr. Kshitez Kaushik
prepared a
new Environmental Update which captures the recent developments in the country. This edition
talks
about the recently developed formula to compute Environmental Compensation, the recent
amendment in the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules,
2016 and waiver from the requirement to have separate CTE the projects which require
Environmental
Clearance. Read Here.
The first Environment Newsletter of 2019 prepared by the Environmental law Team: Ms. Els
Reynaers, Mr. Tavinder Sidhu and Mr. Kshitez Kaushik is available here
For Download Environment practice. Click here
have authored a full treatise on Negotiable Instrument Act 1881 and Mortgage and Securitisation Act 2002. We consistently deliver lectures to client on Project Management, Banking Law, Arbitration matters etc.
Publications
Happy to share the latest publication in the Practical Law series – “Environmental Law and
Practice in India: Overview” (Update 2021), by Els Reynaers Kini and Gautambala Nandeshwar,
M V Kini, available here:
https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/0-503-2029
Ms. Els Reynaers and Mr. Tavinder Sidhu have prepared the India Chapter for the 16th edition of
the
International Comparative Legal Guide To: Environment & Climate Change Law 2019 (published
by
global legal group ltd., London), which you can view by clicking on this link:
Mr. Tavinder Sidhu and Mr. Kshitez Kaushik examine the status of the much-anticipated national
chemical policy in India, in this Expert Focus column of the Chemical Watch magazine in its
February
edition. The online version is available here (for subscribers):
https://chemicalwatch.com/74244/expert-
focus-will-indias-draft-national-chemical-policy-be-published-in-2019
The pdf version of the article is available here , which is reproduced with permission from
Chemical
Watch: www.chemicalwatch.com
The latest write-up by Ms. Els Reynaers and Mr. Tavinder Sidhu on "Environmental law and
practice in
India: overview", published by Thomson Reuters/Practical Law Global Guides, by clicking
here:
https://lnkd.in/e-zQsK9
Key People
Abhay Itagi
,
Els Reynaers Kini
,
Gautambala
Nandeshwer
,
Tavinder Sidhu