Patrick Welsh

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2011

Areas of Practice
Environmental Law

Description
Patrick Welsh is a partner in the Environmental Group in Toronto. Pat provides environmental advice to clients on commercial transactions, including land transactions, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity offerings, and insolvencies and restructurings.

Pat regularly works with environmental scientists and land use planners and draws on his extensive environmental transactional and regulatory experience to identify and mitigate environmental risks and address clients’ environmental business needs. His practice includes environmental due diligence, environmental insurance (including pollution legal liability and environmental transactional representation and warranty insurance), brownfields redevelopment, waste diversion, recycling and extended/individual producer responsibility, transportation of dangerous goods and hazardous wastes, emissions and discharges, contaminated lands, records of site condition, risk assessments, regulatory orders, waste and soil, asbestos and other designated substances, and general environmental regulatory compliance.

Professional Activities
Pat is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, and The Advocates’ Society.

Background
During his time at Queen’s University, Pat was recognized in 2010 with the Agnes Benidickson Tricolour Award for his distinguished service, leadership, character, and community impact. In his third year of law school, Pat was awarded the Gavel Award for his outstanding participation and dedication to student affairs. He was the Dean’s Silver Scholar in his first year of law school and received other academic awards and course prizes in law school. Prior to joining Stikeman Elliott, Pat practiced environmental law and was Co-Chair of the ESG practice at a national Canadian law firm.