Andrew Wiseman
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Location: Southampton and London

Andrew Wiseman

Partner

 

Andrew joined Blake Lapthorn in June 2007 from Trowers & Hamlins to head the Environment team.

 

Andrew specialises in environmental law and has extensive experience of contaminated land, waste management, environmental insurance and other environmental matters. He regularly advises local authorities, multinational companies, NGOs, housing associations, charities, UK-based companies on international, european and UK environmental regulation. Andrew is immediate past chairman of the UK Environmental Law Association, Convenor of UKELA’s Contaminated Land Working Party and a member of Environmental Protection UK's Land Quality Committee. He has written for various publications and he regularly lectures on a wide range of environmental issues. He is on the editorial board of Environmental Law and Management published by Lawtext, is a former editor of Garner’s Encyclopaedia of Environmental Law and Butterworth’s Environmental Law Bulletin.

 

Andrew has been appointed by the Minister of State for Trade, Investment and Foreign Affairs to sit on the Advisory Council of the Export Credits Guarantee Department, is a Director and Trustee of Environmental Protection UK and also is Chairman of the London Borough of Islington’s Climate Change Fund Advisory Panel.

 

He is acknowledged as a leader in the field of environment in Chambers UK, A Client’s Guide to the Legal Profession 2007, which refers to him “as being without question a leader on contaminated land” and “admired for his ability to explain issues ….. in a calm and clear fashion”.