Gabi Gershuny
Associate
About
Gabi joined Burges Salmon as a trainee in 2019 and is an associate in the Environment team.
Gabi has experience advising public and private sector clients on a broad range of environmental law and regulation, including ESG, corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence, natural capital, product stewardship, carbon law, permitting, waste and water law.
She has a particular specialism bringing forward net zero and natural capital projects and regenerative agriculture schemes, helping clients to navigate the regulatory and contractual frameworks governing project delivery.
Gabi has served as a co-convenor of the South West Regional Committee of the UK Environmental Law Association. She sits on Burges Salmon’s ESG steering group.
Experience
- Various Wildlife Trusts: Advising in relation to various landscape recovery projects, including the contractual frameworks for implementation of the projects and the structuring of natural capital schemes.
- Landowners, developers, brokers: Advising on the design, drafting and negotiation of contractual arrangements for voluntary carbon and nature market projects.
- Various corporate clients: Advising in relation to a range of environmental permitting issues, including offences and enforcement, appeals against regulatory decisions, and decarbonisation readiness requirements.
- Multinational clients: Advising on sustainability reporting and due diligence obligations under UK law and regulation.
- Bristol City Council: Advising in relation to the ground-breaking ‘City Leap’ project to find a strategic partner to help deliver carbon neutrality in Bristol by 2030.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England and Wales (2021)