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Multi-Skilled Environmental Law firm
25 Years of Protecting Your Rights
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Energy
Extensive experience with the South African nuclear, renewable energy and oil and gas energy regimes.
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mining
Providing legal advice to management on mine sites.
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water
Extensive advice on the regulatory aspects of The National Water Act and water use entitlements.
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Biodiversity and
Conservation
Vast experience in dealing with South African biodiversity and permitting regime.
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Climate change and Sustainability
Advising clients regarding policy and legislation around the Just Transition.
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About Us
One of South Africa’s leading multi-skilled environmental lawyers with 25 years’ experience established in 2014 in the energy, mining, water and biodiversity sectors.
Adam Gunn has worked as the senior legal advisor on some of the most intense and high profile environmental legal cases such as The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor, First Uranium, the Acid Mine Drainage crisis in the Witwatersrand and Karpowership SA, to name but a few.
This has given Adam a unique and deep environmental legal skillset which facilitates expert advice and strategic legal problem solving in the fields of environmental, water, mining and energy law.
Company Overview
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Gunn Attorneys aim is simple. To be the best niche environmental law firm in Africa. Gunn’s experience includes complex advisory work in the climate change and environmental law fields in South African environmental legislation and other Southern African jurisdictions. We advise a broad range of companies on legal issues.
Complex Climate Change advice including the Net Zero journey to a profitable lower carbon emissions business
Environmental sector issues: general environmental law and specifically land, water, air, waste, biodiversity and energy law
Advice on EIAs, environmental aspects of land development applications and representation at hearings
The drafting and review of appeals and representation at hearings
Assistance with public participation related matters
Litigation which may flow from environmental authorisation processes, including internal appeals in terms of the NEMA (and other SEMA’s) and the MPRDA and High Court Review applications
Due diligence reports and investigations
Contractual Advice regarding environmental issues on projects and environmental liability
Environmental legal and permits compliance audits
Other Legal Services: We produce opinions and general advice on complex environmental issues. We are geared to provide a range of other general environmental based compliance and risk-related services, depending on the client’s specific needs. We also provide litigation services to our clients and to ensure that our clients’ rights are best protected
Client Reviews
★★★★★
“Practicality, high quality work, experience and a collaborative approach are hallmarks of Adam and his team. He has proved invaluable in navigating one of the continent’s most challenging sets of environmental issues and regulatory processes to date, for our utility scale energy projects. Highly recommended, great to work with!”
David Clark, Karpowership
★★★★★
“Adam Gunn stands out as an exceptional attorney with excellent technical skills and knowledge in various fields. He is proactive and solution oriented and besides his broad knowledge, his business orientation makes him a valuable Board Member”
Andreas Bär, Counsel, Bär & Karrer A
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“AUT PAX AUT BELLUM”
(through peace, through war)
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Contact Info
4 Athlone Road Parkview
Johannesburg
072 533 4399
adam@gunnattorneys.co.za