Brian Benn Email & Phone Number

When my clients are buying or selling property, companies, or securities, or contracting for environmental remediation or restoration, I provide strategic advice and financial solutions for the environmental risks and opportunities. For example, I am:• Advising asset holders on climate adaptation risks and opportunities (e.g., mapping environmental metrics onto an investment strategy for a quant / hedge fund)• Providing environmental risk consulting services that integrate technical, financial, and insurance analyses in identifying, measuring, and managing environmental risks • Developing captive environmental risk solutions for unique exposures (e.g., long-term stewardship of remediation liabilities with an off-shore captive for an international construction materials company; and a captive for portfolio-based fixed-price remediation contracting by an international environmental consulting firm)• Supporting resolution of environmental insurance litigation and coverage disputes (e.g., expert witness testimony and mediation-related consulting)• Creating risk transfer structures to facilitate environmental restoration (e.g., facilitated a wildlife foundation’s restoration of tidal wetlands by transferring implementation risks and a port’s habitat restoration through natural resource damage credits sold to a Superfund site’s responsible parties)When we founded our firm more than a decade ago, we believed in the importance of combining scientific and financial expertise to solve complex environmental issues – and had seen the pitfalls that caught parties when scientific and financial analyses were done separately.The need for integrated environmental scientific, technical and financial analyses remains valid, even as corporate strategies have expanded on environmental issues, from predominantly compliance and remediation of contaminated properties, to financial reporting and investment strategies.

Listed skills include Environmental Risk Management, Mediation Support, Expert Testimony, Underwriting And Claims Support For Captives, and 3 others.

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  Principal

  Environmental Risk & Financial Solutions

  2003 - Present - San Francisco Bay Area

  ER&FS is an independent, international environmental risk consultancy, mapping environmental scientific and technical data onto business operational and financial parameters for transactions and asset management.Environmental Risk Specialties• Expert testimony: underwriting, coverage and brokerage• Claims, mediation support and settlement of litigation• Captives and special risk management structures• Risk finance and financial assurances• Investment strategies• Remediation management• Property transactions• Corporate mergers & acquisitions• Climate change adaptation