About
Philip Karmel is a partner in the Corporate and Finance Transactions group at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, based in the United States. He has extensive experience as litigation and regulatory counsel in environmental, land use, real estate, and toxic tort matters. He has handled matters involving environmental review statutes (NEPA and SEQRA), Clean Air Act permitting and compliance, Superfund and oil spill litigation, pesticide-related personal injury and property damage, zoning, government investigations, brownfields redevelopment, eminent domain, and environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions. Notable projects include the Penn Station Area Project, the Belmont Project, NYU Core 2031, Atlantic Yards, Second Avenue subway, Riverside Center, LaGuardia Airport reconstruction, JFK terminals, East River Repowering Project, Moynihan Train Hall, Columbia University’s Manhattanville campus, electric utility substations, capital improvements at CUNY campuses, and the IKEA store in Brooklyn. He has tried numerous cases in federal and state courts and before administrative law judges, and has taken or defended over 150 depositions.