Valentina Keys

Valentina is a Senior Associate in the Environment, Health & Safety team at Watson Farley & Williams, the London office. She regularly advises clients on various aspects of Net Zero, EU Green Deal, Fit for 55, EU ETS, Circular Economy and wider sustainability/climate change/decarbonisation agenda applicable to different sectors.

Valentina also has broad experience of providing stand-alone regulatory advice to international companies on environmental risk management (i.e in the fields of carbon, emissions trading, waste, chemicals, energy, water, plastics and recycling laws) and in particular on the maritime environmental compliance and ESG. On the transactional side, she has extensive experience of drafting and negotiating environmental sections of the due diligence reports. Her experience includes defending environment prosecutions and some health and safety actions.

Valentina has been named as a ‘Rising Star’ by Legal 500 and an ‘Associate to Watch’ in Chambers in 2022.