• Various U.S. and multi-national computer equipment and other high-tech OEMs, EMSs, component manufacturers and distributors—ongoing advice to more than 25 clients regarding compliance with EU environmental directives, including the WEEE and RoHS Directives and the REACH proposal
• US EMSs and OEMs—advised on and designed RoHS compliance strategy, including full product review, assessment of applicable exemptions preparation of materials declaration, review purchase and sales contracts, and prepare letters to suppliers
• US EMSs and OEMs—advised on and designed WEEE compliance strategy, including advice on liabilities for waste management, negotiation with sales channels partners, contract review, accounting issues, disclosure issues, registration with various Member States 
• US OEM—prepared comments submitted to EU Commission in connection with exemptions under the RoHS Directive
• US OEM—prepared comments submitted to a Member State in connection with proposed RoHS rulemaking
• AeA—partnered with AeA to publish guide summarizing new EU requirements applicable to high-tech industry, and to conduct seminars for AeA members
• Major auto manufacturer—advised one of the "Big Three" U.S. automobile manufacturers on end-of-life vehicle regulations in Europe
• World Bank carbon funds—advised on the structure of greenhouse gas emission reduction purchase agreements, prepared participation agreements for new carbon fund and represented the World Bank in its negotiation with a major North American electric utility regarding the utility's participation in a carbon fund.
  
  Recent Publications (partial list):
• Allen & Overy & AeA, Rising Environmental Stakes in the European Union—The New Environmental Laws Applicable to Electrical and Electronic Equipment and What They Mean for High-Tech Companies (Apr. 29, 2003) (Kenneth S. Rivlin & Jean-Philippe Brisson)
• WEEE and RoHS Directives: New Requirements Impacting the Global Supply Chain of the High-Tech Industry, American Competitiveness Institute, August 2005, Kenneth S. Rivlin, Jean-Philippe Brisson and David Wharwood
• Preparing for the WEEE Directive, Circuits Assembly, April 2005, Kenneth S. Rivlin, Jean-Philippe Brisson and David Wharwood
• The Precautionary Principle Under U.S. Law, 11 Environmental Liability 1, February 2003, Kenneth S. Rivlin and Jean-Philippe Brisson
• "Looking Through the Prism of the World Bank's First GHG Emission Reductions Transaction" (Vol. 4, No. 3) ABA Climate Change and Sust. Dev. Newsletter 11, 2001
• "Legal Environmental Issues" published in World Bank, Environmental Matters 68, 1999
  
  
  

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