Environmentand Corporate Social Responsibility
Cloix Mendès-Gil supports you in anticipating, structuring, and securing your projects and practices, integrating environmental and societal requirements into your decisions.
Describe my needOur support in environment and corporate social responsibility
Environmental regulation and securing projects
Projects subject to environmental regulation require a rigorous approach from the design stage onwards.
We help you:
- analyse the applicable regulatory frameworks
- secure the review and approval procedures
- structure your environmental files
- anticipate legal and operational risks
Environmental assessments and administrative procedures
Environmental procedures determine the feasibility of projects.
We help you:
- prepare applications for environmental assessments
- secure the review and approval procedures
- organise public enquiries
- structure "loi sur l'eau" (French Water Act) files
Consultation, public participation, and project acceptability
The success of a project depends on its social and institutional acceptability.
We assist you to:
- organise consultation arrangements
- support public participation
- secure consultation procedures
- anticipate the litigation risks associated with these stages
Classified installations and regulated activities (ICPE)
Classified installations are subject to strict environmental obligations.
We help you:
- secure your ICPE (classified installations) authorisations
- manage your regulatory obligations
- anticipate risks relating to operation
- defend your interests in the event of an inspection or dispute
We also advise on specific nuisance-related issues (noise, pollution, environmental impact).
Soil pollution and environmental risk management
Soil pollution issues can have a lasting impact on projects and assets.
We help you:
- carry out environmental risk audits
- manage pollution situations
- secure real estate and industrial transactions
- anticipate the associated liability
Our approach aims to identify risks upfront and secure decision-making.
Environmental planning law and specific constraints
Certain projects are subject to specific environmental regulations.
We advise in particular on:
- the application of the Loi Littoral (French Coastal Law)
- environmental constraints in planning matters
- the interplay between planning law and the environment
Ecological transition and organisational transformation
The requirements of climate and ecological transition are transforming business models and practices.
We help you:
- integrate environmental issues into your projects
- structure your transition strategies
- secure your regulatory obligations
Corporate social responsibility, compliance, and non-financial reporting
Organisations must respond to growing requirements in relation to corporate social responsibility.
We assist you to:
- structure your compliance approach (CSRD, NFRD)
- integrate ESG considerations into your governance
- secure your reporting obligations
- support your compliance initiatives
Human rights and organisational responsibility
Corporate social responsibility issues also encompass fundamental human rights.
We help you:
- identify your human rights obligations
- secure your practices and your value chain
- anticipate legal and reputational risks
Environmental litigation and dispute management
Environmental projects can give rise to complex disputes.
We assist you to:
- defend your interests before the administrative and civil courts
- handle challenges brought against authorisations
- structure tailored defence strategies
- favour amicable solutions where appropriate
Skills
- Environmental evaluation requests and examination procedures
- Consultation, public participation
- Public enquiry
- “Loi sur l’eau” (French Law transposing the EU Water Framework Directive) File
- PEB (Noise Exposure Map) and noise pollution
- Land pollution and risk audits
- ICPE (Installations classified for environmental protection)
- Loi Littoral (French Law for the development, protection, and improvement of coastlines)
Your partners
Our vision of the lawyer's work by your side
Cloix Mendès-Gil supports private and public players in their strategic projects, sensitive situations and complex disputes. Companies, local authorities, institutions or entrepreneurs: we work at the heart of your challenges, with a comprehensive, operational approach.
We are a partner of private initiative and public action
We support companies, financial players, mixed-economy and social-economy structures, as well as the State and local authorities. This dual public/private culture allows us to understand your constraints and provide solutions suited to interlocking environments.
We approach advice, litigation and mediation as a single whole
We combine expertise in public and private law to handle each situation as a whole. Anticipating risks, structuring projects, securing decisions and managing disputes: our goal is to choose the most effective strategy to defend your interests.
We work according to a proven method
A lead partner steers each case and coordinates a team suited to your needs. We build mediation in as a strategic lever to preserve relationships, control costs and speed up resolutions, whenever it is relevant to do so.
We place mediation at the heart of our strategies
We place mediation at the heart of our strategies to foster effective, level-headed solutions. Led by partner-mediators in public and private law, it helps preserve relationships and control costs and timeframes. Far more than an alternative, it is a strategic tool we use with rigour.