Biography: Environment

Maureen Crough is counsel in Sidley's New York office. She has represented domestic and non-US purchasers, sellers, lenders, landlords and tenants in the environmental aspects of a broad range of financial transactions. Ms Crough has been involved in numerous aspects of environmental due diligence, evaluation of environmental insurance for use in transactions, negotiation of environmental provisions in acquisition and loan agreements, and resolution of environmental matters in bankruptcy and environmental counselling pertaining to financial transactions. In related matters, she represents clients in buyer and seller environmental dispute resolution and counsels clients in the requirements of US and state environmental regulatory compliance and the development and implementation of environmental management systems. Her practice also includes representing clients in the performance of voluntary cleanups in state programmes.

Ms Crough received her JD (cum laude) from the University of Michigan Law School in 1986 – where she was editor-in-chief of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform – and her AB (magna cum laude) from Princeton University in 1983. She is admitted in Illinois and New York.