Lawrence P. Schnapf

CRES-Affiliated Adjunct Professor

Lawrence P. Schnapf is an environmental attorney based in New York City and New Jersey with over 25 years of national environmental experience and is the principal of Schnapf Environmental Law Offices.  Larry primarily concentrates on environmental issues associated with corporate, real estate and brownfield transactions; commercial financing including asset-based lending, syndicated loans, mezzanine loans and distressed debt; bankruptcy, workouts and corporate restructuring.  He has extensive experience with brownfield redevelopment and financing, including representing affordable housing developers and assisting local development corporations or not-for-profit organizations with their brownfield planning programs.  Larry also counsels clients on environmental, represents clients in federal and state environmental litigation, enforcement actions, administrative proceedings and private cost recovery actions. He has also served as liaison counsel for PRP steering committees.

He has also written numerous articles on environmental law, is a contributing author for several chapters of “ Brownfield Practice and Law: The Cleanup and Redevelopment of Contaminated Properties” published by Matthew Bender.  He was also a contributing author for “The Law Of Environmental Justice” published by the American Bar Association and the Matthew Bender “Environmental Law Practice Guide”.  He is also the author of “ Managing Environmental Liability in Transactions and Brownfield Redevelopment” published by JurisLaw Publishing.

Larry is the co-chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Hazardous Site Remediation Committee, co-chair of the NYSBA brownfield task force and a board member of the Board of the NYC Partnership of Brownfield Practitioners.  He is also the chair of the Brownfield Committee Force of the Environmental Business Association of New York.

He is Chair of the ABA Section of Business Law Committee on Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law.  He is a vice chair of the Environmental Transactions, Audits and Brownfield Committee; and Special Committee on Disclosure of the ABA’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources.  He is also a member of the board of BNA’s Environmental Due Diligence Guide and the Law 360 Environmental Advisory Board.

Larry has also served on a number of ASTM Task Groups and was Co-Chair of the legal sub-committee for the ASTM Vapor Intrusion Task Group.

Larry is an adjunct professor of environmental law at New York Law School where he teaches “Environmental Issues in Business Transactions” , “Environmental Law and Policy” and “The Law of Green Buildings”.  He is also on the faculty of the Center for Christian Studies at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church where he teaches “The Bible and the Environment.”

He is listed in the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers 2008 and 2009, the 2009 Madison’s Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals, and The International Who’s Who of Environmental Lawyers 2008 and 2009, and Chambers USA 2009 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.

You can visit the web page of the Schnapf Environmental Law Center at http://www.environmental-law.net.