Daniele Cervino - Of Counsel

Areas of Practice:

Environmental law including counseling in regulatory, transactional and insurance coverage issues.

Attorney Biography:

Daniele Cervino is Counsel at the law firm of Golub & Isabel, PC. Ms. Cervino represents her clients in a variety of environmental regulatory and transaction issues. She has represented private equity firms in environmental due diligence, risk mitigation and insurance coverage has counseled many companies on environmental compliance and cost recovery matters. Ms. Cervino 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 handled all legal aspects of its fixed price remediation and insurance program. Ms. Cervino 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 issues 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 a private client for costs of defense, investigation and remediation of former manufacturing facility in New Jersey.
  • Provided strategic advise for Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) compliance and underground storage tank (UST) compliance.
  • Represented private clients before New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection with respect to compliance with Notices of Violations and Consent Orders for a variety of programs including land use and site remediation.
  • 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.
  • 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 numerous law firms needing environmental expertise.

Education:

  • Pace University School of Law, JD & Certificate in Environmental Law, 1989
  • Muhlenberg College, BA, 1986

Admissions:

  • New Jersey, 1989
  • New York, 1990
  • United States District Court, New Jersey, 1989

Professional Affiliations:

  • American Bar Association
  • Bergen County Bar Association
  • Industrial and Commercial Real Estate Woman (ICREW)
  • International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
  • National Brownfields Association
  • New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association
  • New Jersey State Bar Association
  • New Jersey Women Lawyers Association
  • New York State Bar Association
  • Society of Women Environmental Professionals, NJ Chapter

Activities:

  • Master, Justice Stewart Pollock Environmental American Inn of Court
  • Director, Environmental Law Section, NJ State Bar Association
  • Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law Committee, American Bar Association
  • Chair, Bogota Environmental Commission (1996-2007)
  • New York Metro Brownfields Redevelopment Fund Program, Environmental Closure Work Group
  • Chair, Environmental Law Committee, Bergen County Bar Association

Awards:

  • Women’s Fund of New Jersey Award 2003, Honoring Women in Real Estate.
  • Recognized by Real Estate New Jersey Magazine for “Women of Influence in Real Estate” in 2007.

Related Qualifications and Special Achievements:

  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating
  • Licensed Insurance Producer (Property & Casualty)