Lex de Kok of Greenberg Traurig
Expertise:
- Only Representatives,
- Downstream Users,
- Late preregistration,
- Enforcement,
- SIEF participation and labeling
About Lex de Kok
Lex de Kok is a Dutch lawyer with the American law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP in Amsterdam. Lex de Kok has broad experience in both private law and public administrative and environmental law. His experience includes real estate development, area development and environmental law including emissions and carbon trading in the EU, the Kyoto Protocol, CO2 storage, climate change, WEEE and REACH.
Lex de Kok’s focus and interests lie in environmental law and include compliance with the EU REACH Program. He advises both large international companies as well as small and medium-sized enterprises.
In addition, Lex de Kok participates in both national and international REACH conferences both as speaker and attendee. For example, Lex de Kok spoke in 2007 at the American Chemical Council and the Canada’s Chemical Producers in Fort Lauderdale. In September 2009, he will be speaking in Barcelona at the CIR 16th Annual European Chemicals Policy Conference about Only Representatives and Downstream Users. Lex de Kok also writes regularly on environmental issues, including REACH.
About Greenberg Traurig
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with approximately 1750 attorneys serving clients from more than 30 offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Due trough its various locations, Greenberg Traurig is suitable to help clients throughout the world with their legal REACH issues. Greenberg Traurig employs several REACH lawyers with extensive experience working together to get the ultimate results.
Reference Clients and Case examples
Lex de Kok represents various companies in meeting their compliance obligations under the REACH Program. His areas of expertise include, among others, the REACH Implementation Project (RIP) guidance, the chemical safety report, Only Representative issues and enforcement issues. His clients include Chinese companies exporting to Europe, chemical and energy clients. Lex has recently worked for companies like Oxbow Carbon LLC, H.C. Starck Inc., Inteva, and Remington.
