The Research Triangle Park office of global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Lori Hinnant as a partner in the environmental policy and regulatory practices. She joins K&L Gates from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP.
Hinnant has extensive experience in air, water, and hazardous waste laws, remediation alternatives, environmental permitting and enforcement, and M&A due diligence, as well as in a variety of other regulatory spaces.
“We are very excited about Lori joining the firm,” said Mary Beth F. Johnston, administrative partner of K&L Gates’ Research Triangle Park office. “She is an exceptional lawyer. Her recruitment not only provides the opportunity to strengthen the firm’s environmental, land and natural resources practice, but also will allow us to increase the synergies among our health care, FDA, agribusiness, and food and beverage practices on emerging issues.”
Hinnant’s clients range from those in the manufacturing, utility, mining, pharmaceutical, petroleum and natural gas, and biotechnology sectors to those in the agribusiness, food and beverage, and health care industries. She also has broad experience in real estate and project development for renewable and alternative energy projects and brownfields redevelopment.
With an expansive global footprint, K&L Gates advises on a diverse range of environmental and regulatory matters involving a wide variety of regulatory/governmental agencies.
Source: www.klgates.com
