Bonni F. Kaufman is Partner in the Public Policy and Regulation Group of Holland & Knight LLP, where she focuses on the practice of environmental law. Ms. Kaufman represents real estate, industrial, transportation, and manufacturing clients in a wide variety of matters relating to environmental laws, focusing on regulatory enforcement and compliance, environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions, and litigation. She has counseled clients with respect to compliance with environmental regulatory requirements, including requirements under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, RCRA, CERCLA, TSCA, FIFRA, and state law and has successfully resolved enforcement actions and litigation related to violations of environmental regulations and migration of contamination. She has represented developers, lenders, and bond issuers in connection with military housing privatization projects around the country. She advises developers, purchasers and real estate portfolio managers in connection with the purchase, sale and development of environmentally impacted properties and brownfields development. She also advises both creditors and debtors with respect to resolution of environmental claims in bankruptcy, including the liquidation of environmentally impaired assets and enforcement of outstanding injunctive orders.
Ms. Kaufman has successfully litigated environment actions and liability actions, citizen suits, environmental insurance coverage claims and bankruptcy claims. She has participated in numerous alternative dispute resolution procedures, including mediation and arbitration. She is also a frequent writer and speaker on environmental issues.