Nancy Hayes is Of Counsel with Morrison & Foerster in the firm's San Francisco office. She specializes in the practice of land use and environmental law.
She represents clients in a wide range of industries, including major telecommunications, technology, energy, mining, petrochemical, development, and financial companies as well as public entities such as airports, redevelopment agencies, and educational institutions. She has represented these clients in matters of federal, state, and local law relating to land use, environmental review, natural resources, air, water, hazardous waste and materials, and environmental cleanup.
Ms. Hayes is experienced in major facility and project siting, permitting, and closure matters and has also assisted oil refineries, chemical manufacturers, and steel plants in obtaining variances and permits required by various federal and state initiatives mandating closure or modification of hazardous waste or waste water treatment or disposal facilities.
Ms. Hayes also represents clients in cleanup, cost recovery, and enforcement actions and rulemaking proceedings and represents redevelopment agencies in the cleanup and cost recovery matters to allow brownfields development. In connection with one such matter, she was a principal author of legislation, known as the Polanco bill, which provides redevelopment agencies with additional cleanup immunities and cost-recovery rights. Ms. Hayes has also represented companies in various state and federal rulemaking proceedings related to hazardous waste regulation, including most recently representation of a mining company in a proposed federal hazardous waste listing action.
She also assists clients in transactions involving contaminated property or other potential environmental liabilities. Ms. Hayes is experienced in environmental due diligence and in the review, drafting, and negotiation of environmental indemnities and agreements in numerous real property transfers, complex mergers and acquisitions, and financing transactions. She has also drafted and negotiated asbestos, hazardous material and hazardous waste recycling, transportation, and disposal contracts for domestic, international, and overseas companies.
Ms. Hayes routinely advises clients on environmental compliance issues related to their business operations and has assisted a number of clients in the development and implementation of environmental compliance, record-keeping, and auditing programs. Before joining Morrison & Foerster LLP in 1988, Ms. Hayes was an associate in the Environmental Law Group at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro. Prior to law school, she was a medical technologist in hematology and chemistry.