Lisa DeMarco Featured On The Cover Of Lexpert Magazine - "Clean Lawyers All The Way"
Lexpert Magazine
March 2009
Lisa DeMarco, Partner in Macleod Dixon's Toronto office, was one of three lawyers chosen to appear on the cover of Lexpert's March issue - "Clean Lawyers All The Way".
Lisa leads Macleod Dixon's Toronto energy practice and is heavily involved in emissions trading issues. She comes from a background that combines energy law with environmental law and notes in the feature article "[t]hat worked out perfectly because at its core, carbon constraint and carbon finance are primarily energy productivity issues, not environmental law issues…[t]he questions for clients is how much bang they're going to get for their energy conservation efforts and how few bucks they can spend to do it".
Lisa also says that "[c]leantech is a new asset class in respect of which clients don't want to forgo value or overlook liability…[t]hey know that failure to consider the new economic parameters will get them in trouble".
That's because the legal issues surrounding cleantech are myriad.
"Whether you're talking about financial institutions, energy companies, multinationals or power developers, they all have varied needs relating to cleantech", Lisa notes. "You have entities that are worried about securities climate change disclosure compliance, you have emissions trading market intermediaries and cleantech hedge funds, and you also have domestic and international governments who need outside counsel".
The point is that cleantech engages a wide range of practice areas. Lisa explains that "[a]part from corporate/commercial and environmental lawyers, you need IP, IT, real estate, carbon finance, energy, securities, tax and banking lawyers".
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