Jamie Kiser, COO and general counsel for Rhyno Partners, a Charlotte, NC-based investment group, has decades of experience in handling environmental issues, especially in relation to acquisitions and disposals of businesses and properties – which is a time when many previously unknown liabilities and exposures come up. The best way to avoid a nasty surprise during the middle of a transaction is to make sure environmental issues are an integral part of your due diligence process.  And it pays to have an expert – an environmental consultant – do the work. Or, as Jamie puts it: “You come to find out that you’ve not only bought a million-dollar building, you’ve bought a $10 million liablity.” We get into detail on that, as well as how to avoid liability for things that aren’t your fault, why industrial sites – and veteran companies – pose the most risk, and more, including… The importance of “history” when investigating a siteHow to properly use due diligence to gauge risk and make effective business decisionsWhy small companies have more to worry about with environmental liabilitiesA strategy to make sure you catch hidden “environmental gorillas"And more

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