Lisa M. Shelton
Partner
lisashelton@andrewskurth.com

111 Congress Avenue
Suite 1700
Austin TX 78701
P: 512.320.9222
F: 512.542.5222

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Lisa's practice focuses on environmental, health and safety counseling, compliance and liability. She has extensive experience analyzing environmental, health and safety issues associated with corporate and securities matters as well as transactions involving contaminated properties including Brownfield redevelopment. Lisa has experience in a wide spectrum of associated matters including negotiation of environmental insurance policies, indemnity provisions and access agreements as well as SEC disclosure issues for a wide range of industries. She has worked with industry associations and companies to address air, waste, water, wetlands and toxics issues in permitting, enforcement and regulatory forums. Her work includes the development of global compliance and environmental health and safety management systems and performance of environmental health and safety audits and investigations. In addition, she has assisted clients in the formulation of global strategies for product stewardship and pollution prevention, including RoHS and WEEE compliance.

Prior to joining Andrews Kurth, Lisa was Senior Environmental Counsel for a Fortune 100 Company and handled environmental, health and safety related compliance, risk and transactional issues worldwide.

Representative Experience

• Represented public company on environmental risks, liabilities and compliance issues associated with merger with independent refiner and marketer including issues associated with sites undergoing state and federal remediation actions.
• Represented company with respect to environmental liabilities associated with legacy contamination sites under the Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation Act, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, Natural Resource Damages Act and Water Resource Development Act.
• Represented Fortune 100 company with respect to environmental health and safety risks associated with purchase of former manufacturing site being remediated under the Voluntary Cleanup Program for development as a commercial property including negotiation of manuscripted insurance policy.
• Represented biodiesel company with regard to environmental health and safety risks, liability and compliance associated with purchase of assets used for the manufacture of herbicides, including a superfund site, for redevelopment as biodiesel plant.
• Represented pipeline company with respect to railroad commission compliance and indemnity issues associated with litigation resolving liability for remediation of  large pipeline leaks.
• Represented international manufacturing company with respect to environmental, health and safety risks, liabilities and compliance issues associated with purchase of assets of company that manufactures machinery for the petrochemical and process industries.
• Represented LNG company with respect to environmental health and safety disclosures associated with debt offering.
• Represented issuer with respect to environmental risk, liability, compliance and disclosure issues associated with initial public offering of coal mining company.
• Represented Fortune 100 company with respect to environmental, health and safety risks and liabilities associated with spin off of semiconductor business including securities disclosures.
• Represented investor on assessment of environmental risks and liabilities associated with acquisition of tube manufacturing company whose properties had historic contamination issues.
• Represented developer in enforcement action associated with development in wetlands resulting in After-the-Fact permit and no penalty.
• Represented OEM with respect to take back issues associated with reseller agreement.
• Worked on many real estate transaction involving contaminated properties covered under Superfund, the Texas Voluntary Cleanup Program, Innocent Owner Operator Program, and Municipal Settings Designation.
• Worked on compliance issues associated with wind energy projects in support of environmental opinion letters.
• Worked on real estate transactions requiring Nationwide wetlands permits and mitigation actions.

Professional / Civic Affiliations

Member

• State Bar of Texas
• American Bar Association
  

Headline News

• Andrews Kurth Elects Seven New Partners for 2009 (December 3, 2008)

Industries

• Banking/Finance
• Energy
• Energy Transactions
• Hospitality and Hotels
• Insurance
• Manufacturing/Sales
• Real Estate
• Technology

Practice Areas

• Corporate/Securities
• Real Estate
• Environmental

Education

• JD, 1987, Texas Tech University School of Law, Phi Delta Phi
• BA, 1979, University of Vermont

Admitted

• Texas 1987