Daniele Cervino is a Member in the firm's Environmental Law & Permitting practice. She represents clients in connection with a variety of environmental regulatory and transaction issues.
Daniele has represented private equity firms and developers in environmental due diligence and environmental aspects of transactions, risk mitigation and insurance coverage. She has counseled many companies on environmental compliance and cost recovery matters. She has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Environmental Waste Management Associates (Parsippany, New Jersey), an environmental consulting and remediation firm and its related companies. She has negotiated dozens of insured fixed price remediation contracts and environmental insurance policies and associated claims. She was selected as one of New Jersey Real Estate Magazine’s “Women of Influence in Real Estate” in 2007.
Representative Matters
- Coordinated the recovery of environmental investigation and cleanup costs from major oil companies representing private property owners of gasoline service stations.
- Negotiated many pre-litigation settlements with certain insurance companies that issued policies between the 1970’s and 1986 for private clients for costs of defense, investigation and remediation of former manufacturing and industrial facilities and shopping centers in New Jersey.
- Provided strategic advice for Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) and Site Remediation and Reform Act compliance and underground storage tank (UST) and permit compliance.
- Represented private clients before New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and United States Environmental Protection Agency with respect to compliance with Notices of Violations, Administrative and Consent Orders for a variety of programs including land use and site remediation.
- Represented clients in state and federal “Superfund” sites including manufactured gas sites and river sediment sites including the Passaic River.
- Obtained public funding and cost reimbursement from New Jersey Hazardous Discharge Site Remediation Fund under its Innocent Party Grant, Petroleum Tank Fund and Redevelopment Agreement programs as well as New York’s Brownfields Cleanup Program.
- Regularly coordinated environmental due diligence and environmental insurance placement for several private equity funding investing in office, warehouses and retail centers.
- Negotiated environmental provisions of purchase and sale agreements for real estate and corporate transaction for commercial clients needing environmental expertise.
Related News
Primer on the listing of the Lower Hackensack River as a Federal Superfund Site
On September 7, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency named the Lower Hackensack River as a federal superfund site. The processing of the Superfund listing took seven years. The goal within the next two…
Fixed-Price Cleanups in the Post-Cost Cap Insurance Era
Join Daniele Cervino for a Strafford live webinar, “Fixed-Price Cleanups in the Post-Cost Cap Insurance Era” on Tuesday, January 11, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST. Click this link for more information: https://www.sp-04.com/r.php?products/tlivvahmra
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Environmental Remediation and Permits
The Governor and NJDEP have issued clear guidance that site remediation cases and environmental permit compliance must continue during the pandemic. The federal Environmental Protection Agency also issued Interim Guidance on Site Field Work Decisions on April 10, 2020, where EPA is the lead agency or has direct oversight of […]
Bogota Rescue Squad Delivers Food to the St. Joseph’s Food Pantry
Daniele Cervino, President of the Bogota Rescue Squad, is pictured here delivering donations of food to the St Joseph’s food pantry. During the squad’s recent food drive, a generous donation was received from Inserra Supermarkets. The Bogota Rescue Squad delivering to the St. Joseph’s food pantry. Thank you to the entire […]
Risky Business: Corporate Strategies for Addressing Environmental and Energy Challenges
The New York State Bar Association’s Environmental & Energy Law Section’s Annual Meeting and Expo 2020 included the program Risky Business: Corporate Strategies for Addressing Environmental and Energy Challenges held at the New York Hilton Midtown located at 1335 Avenue of the Americas on Friday, January 31, 2020. Daniele Cervino was the […]
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Regulatory Matters
- Environmental Transactional Matters
- Insurance Coverage
- Cost Recovery Issues
- Pace University School of Law, J.D. (1989)
- Muhlenberg College, B.A. (1986)
cum laude
- New Jersey, 1989
- New York, 1990
- United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 1989
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- New York State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Bergen County Bar Association
- Justice Stewart Pollock Environmental American Inn of Court (Master)
- Environmental Law Section, NJ State Bar Association (Director and Chair)
- Bogota Environmental Commission and GreenTeam Advisory Committee (Chair)
- Environmental Law Committee, Bergen County Bar Association (Chair)
- Rebuilding Together North Jersey (President)
- NJCIA Environmental Business Council
- New York Brownfield Big Apple Awards 2016 for Jiten LLC Bronx Hotel
- Alumni, Bergen County LEADS Program, 2009-2010
- Recipient of the 2009/2010 Women of the Year Award from National Association of Professional Women
- Recipient of the 2008 Economic Outlook Business Development Award from Morris County Chamber of Commerce
- Recognized by Real Estate New Jersey Magazine for “Women of Influence in Real Estate” in 2007 and 2008
- Women’s Fund of New Jersey Award 2003, Honoring Women in Real Estate
- Environmental Business Journal Business Achievement Award for Growth in 2002 & 2003
- Women’s Fund of New Jersey Award 2003, Honoring Women in Real Estate
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