Larry Schnapf Email & Phone Number

I have over 40 years of national environmental law experience. My practice is concentrated on environmental issues associated with corporate, real estate and brownfield transactions, commercial lending and securitizations , bankruptcy and workouts. I also have extensive experience with brownfield redevelopment and financing, including representing affordable housing developers . I have also represented clients in federal and state environmental litigation, enforcement actions, administrative proceedings and private cost recovery actions. I have written numerous articles on environmental law, am contributing author for several chapters of “ Brownfield Practice and Law: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Properties” and the “Environmental Law Practice Guide”, both published by Matthew Bender. I am also the author of “ Managing Environmental Liability in Transactions and Brownfield Redevelopment” published by JurisLaw Publishing . I am General Editor and author of several chapters of book published by ABA Business Law Publishing "Environmental Issues in Business Transactions". I am adjunct professor of environmental law at New York Law School where I teach "Brownfield Law and Policy" and 'Environmental Law and Policy" .I am a past chair of NYSBA Environmental Law Section; Co-chair of Brownfield Task Force of NYSBA Environmental Law Section, a vice-chair of the ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law as well as a past chair of Environment Committee of the ABA Business Law Section . I am also a emeritus board member of the Emeritus of the New York Brownfield Partnership and Brownfield Coalition of the Northeast.. I servered as the chair of the Brownfield Committee of the Environmental Business Association of New York from 2002-2008.I have also served as Chair of the legal sub-committee of the ASTM Task Group responsible for revising the the ASTM E1527 Phase 1 Standard in 2013 and 2021. Larry is listed in the New York Super Lawyers-Metro Edition (2010-2024); the Super Lawyers Business Edition (2011-24); The International Who’s Who of Environmental Lawyers (2008-2024) as well as appearing in Chambers USA Client Guide of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Larry has received the AV® Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible Peer Review Rating.He was also on the faculty of the Center for Christian Studies at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church where he taught “The Bible and the Environment.”

Listed skills include Environmental Law, Environmental Compliance, Due Diligence, Litigation, and 23 others.