CHAPTER 11 REGULATORY ISSUES AND STRATEGIES AFFECTING THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY

• Jurisdiction: United States

Climate Change Law and Regulations: Planning for a Carbon-Constrained Regulatory Environment
(Jan 2015)
CHAPTER 11
REGULATORY ISSUES AND STRATEGIES AFFECTING THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY
Tauna M. Szymanski
Attorney
Hunton & Williams LLP
Washington, D.C.
Allison Warburton
Partner
Minter Ellison
Brisbane, Australia

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TAUNA M. SZYMANSKi is an attorney in the air and climate change practice group in the Washington, D.C. office of Hunton & Williams LLP. She advises a variety of clients on climate change-related regulatory and transactional matters in the U.S., the European Union, and globally. She has worked on climate change since 1994 and has structured and negotiated environmental commodity transactions in over a dozen different markets. Early in her legal career, she was seconded for two years to support the carbon trading desk of a major U.S. investment bank in London. She has attended several conferences of the parties to the international climate treaty negotiations, dating back to 2001. In the late 1990s, before law school, Ms. Szymanski served for three years as a U.S.-China government relations consultant, representing Western companies in their efforts to do business in China as China was acceding to the World Trade Organization. Ms. Szymanski has a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she was the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, a master's in economics and public policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a B.A. in from Carleton College in international relations and environmental studies. She grew up in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Israel, Burma, and Spain as the child of U.S. Foreign Service Officers. She has been recognized by...