Michael Mahoney helps clients address complex environmental issues and manage matters relating to environmental compliance. He has extensive experience advising clients on the environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions, including identifying and allocating environmental risks, negotiating and drafting environmental provisions of transaction documents, and obtaining and reviewing environmental site assessments and other diligence materials. Well versed in environmental law and with a business-focused approach, Mike helps his clients foresee risks and evaluate the best paths to reach their objectives.

Mike routinely advises clients on environmental regulatory matters, including obtaining permits, ongoing compliance, auditing and compliance program development, responding to government information requests, investigations and enforcement actions, and citizen suit defense. He also assists clients with carbon offset transactions and counsels clients on carbon offset standards as well as environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues more broadly, including ESG reporting and disclosure and corporate sustainability programs. 

Committed to pro bono work, Mike focuses his efforts on activities to enhance environmental and social governance in developing countries, including in-country work in Cambodia and Myanmar and desk-based work for projects in Afghanistan and Malawi. 

Bar Admissions

• Washington State Courts
• United States District Court, District of Western Washington
• California State Courts

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, Juris Doctor degree (2014)‎
• Georgetown University, Bachelor of Arts degree, Linguistics, magna cum laude ‎‎(2006)‎

• Advised investor in acquisition of portfolio of power plants, including negotiating environmental contractual terms, conducting environmental due diligence, and coordinating permit transfers.
• Counseled property owners seeking regulatory closure following voluntary cleanup of ‎contaminated properties under the Washington Model Toxics Control Act.
• Assisted industrial contractor with Clean Water Act citizen suit defense.
• Advised operator of glass recycling facilities in response to California Department of Toxic Substances Control notice.

• Clean Water Act Coverage – Another Revised WOTUS Rule
• EPA’s Proposed Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification Improvement Rule Could Cause Ripple Effects With Project Timelines
• New Washington Law Will Help Grow State’s Green Hydrogen Economy
• Fueling Change Innovating for Good