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Our approach
Drawing on decades of specialist expertise across multiple jurisdictions and industry sectors, our Europe and
Middle East (EME) environmental law specialists guide clients through every stage of the life cycle of their business.

A life cycle approach to Environmental legal services Reed Smith LLP 01
We provide specialist environmental advice on domestic
and international corporate, private equity, finance and
real estate transactions across all business sectors.
Our core transactional services include:
• Environmental due diligence and risk/impact
assessment
• Negotiation of specialist environmental warranties
and indemnities
• Environmental risk transfer/allocation solutions
• Appointment and supervision of environmental
consultants
In recent years, we have represented developers,
operators, lenders, private equity investors and others in
the development, disposal, acquisition, financing and/or
decommissioning of power stations, oil refineries,
terminals, storage depots and related infrastructure,
mines, landfill sites, gas storage facilities, waste
management sites, chemicals manufacturing facilities,
hotel chains, communications satellites, wind, solar,
biomass, bioliquids and biofuels facilities, food and drink
manufacturing facilities, and pulp and paper plants.
Representative matters
• Representing a private equity buyer in its bid to
acquire a nationwide portfolio of downstream oil and
gas assets.
• Representing a major U.S. energy company in the
acquisition of a substantial portfolio of wind power
projects across the United Kingdom and the United
States.
• Representing a metals and mining company on its
acquisition of several zinc mines in Africa and Europe.
• Negotiation of a bespoke off-site, third-party pollution
liability product to protect the buyer of a large
portfolio of petrol filling station sites affected by
historic hydrocarbon and other contamination.
• Representing the buyer in connection with the
environmental aspects of the acquisition of a
portfolio of European aviation fuel storage and
airport supply facilities.
• Representing the buyer on the acquisition of a fuel
storage, blending and recycling facility in south-west
England.
Company and asset acquisition
Case Study
We were instructed to advise the buyer on its proposed acquisition of six separate companies in the United Arab
Emirates, Oman and Qatar specialising in road construction and the production of construction aggregates and
asphalt.
The companies, with some 900 employees, produced 7.5 million tonnes of aggregates and 1.6 million tonnes of
asphalt mix per year via three quarries and 10 asphalt plants.
The acquisition was governed by English law and negotiated between client teams in London and Paris, whilst the
assets and relevant documents were all in the Middle East. We assembled a team of environmental and health &
safety lawyers drawn from our London and Abu Dhabi offices who worked jointly on the extensive due diligence and
warranty and indemnity negotiations.
Our diligence revealed that a number of sites lacked key permits and that at certain of the quarries, boundary and
volume limits had been exceeded, but working with local lawyers and the relevant authorities these were resolved
without delay to completion.
We also negotiated for our client a 5 year environmental indemnity covering clean-up liability associated with historic
soil and groundwater contamination at and emanating from the acquired sites (either required by a regulator or
which a reasonable and prudent owner would perform) and, unusually, any future liability associated with historic
breaches of environmental laws or permits at the sites by the target companies.
Company and asset acquisition

02 Reed Smith LLP A life cycle approach to Environmental legal services
We work closely with the firm’s real estate, construction
and finance practitioners to assist clients in dealing with
the environmental risks associated with redevelopment
and rehabilitation of contaminated land.
We have worked on some of the largest and most high-
profile brownfield redevelopment projects and won
several awards for our work in this area.
We are experienced in handling soil, water, air quality
and natural habitat pollution issues, flood risks the
preparation and review of environmental impact
statements/assessments, and development of detailed
remediation strategies.
We have also developed innovative and award –winning
environmental liability transfer mechanisms.
• Acting for the owner and developer of a £400m 23
hectare redevelopment of a former industrial site, to
create 1,000 new homes and 300,000 sq ft of office
space in a mixed use community, including shops,
restaurants and a new railway station.
• Acting for the owner and operator of a chemicals
manufacturing facility in relation to the investigation
and remediation of organochloropesticide
contamination of a major chalk aquifer (including
aldrin, dieldrin and PCE contamination).
• Acting for the owner and operator of a former steel
works and tar and benzole distillation facility in
relation to the investigation and remediation of a
large acid tar lagoon and associated landfill.
• Acting for the trustee owners of a former English
china clay works in Cornwall in relation to the
remediation of NORM (naturally occurring radioactive
material) contamination of the site.
• Preparing a remediation agreement between a
German plant operator, former owner and third-party
guarantor regarding red mud lake risk exposures.
• Advising a major oil company on the disposal and
remediation of a portfolio of disused oil refining and
storage assets.
Remediation and brownfield redevelopment
Case Study
Our client's UK site had been an oil refinery for over 100 years, one of the oldest in the world. Inevitably, the site
(which extended to over 2,000 acres plus various associated pipelines and storage facilities) had suffered heavy
environmental impacts over the years, particularly as modern environmental laws did not exist for much of the
refinery's lifetime.
Our client maintained significant reserves against potentially future environmental liabilities associated with historic
on and off-site contamination, and was spending substantial sums every year in managing the environmental risks it
presented.
Using a range of innovative legal structures, we were able to devise and successfully implement a transaction
structure that has seen the site fully remediated over a 7 year period and returned to beneficial use as a new "urban
village" of some 4,000 new homes, a remarkable transformation for the site.
The project saw the refinery decommissioned, permits surrendered and - through various innovative structures
never before used in such a context and without any reliance on insurance- achieved a full liability transfer and
"clean exit" for our client from historic liabilities, releasing substantial reserves to the client's P&L account, won
numerous awards for innovation and created a positive, reputation enhancing legacy for our client in the local area.
Remediation and
brownfield redevelopment

We frequently advise businesses on critical
environmental licensing and permitting issues.
We help our clients with drafting and making permit
applications, appeals and variations, and compliance
issues, including representation in connection with
regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings,
transfers and surrender of permits, onsite closure and
aftercare requirements, suspension, and withdrawal
and forfeiture, particularly in relation to:
• Integrated pollution control permits
• REACH and other regimes regulating the marketing
and use of chemicals
• Waste management licensing
• “Producer responsibility” legislation
• Effluent and discharge consents
• Water abstraction licences
• Greenhouse gas emissions permits
• Utilities consents
• Permits/consents associated with the construction
and operation of on and offshore installations
• Advising the operator of a major petrochemicals
facility in connection with PPC permit surrender
issues, in particular obligations to clean up
contamination to baseline conditions.
• Advising numerous separate clients in relation to
the applicability of use class exemptions from the
need to hold electricity supply and/or transmission
licences under the UK’s Electricity Act 1989.
• Advising a UK specialty chemicals manufacturer on
environmental indemnity, IPPC and real estate
issues associated with the closure of a major
chemical works in South Wales.
• Advising energy generators, automotive, chemicals
and telecommunication manufacturers, fuel service
providers and many others on PPC
consent/integrated environmental permit issues.
• Advising and negotiating with regulatory authorities
relating to industrial water abstraction, water
discharge and trade effluent agreements.
• Representing the landlord in the grant of an “oven-
ready” long lease of part of a former petrochemical
complex to the developer of a new CCGT power
plant, including obtaining all necessary consents
and a transfer of historic and future environmental
risk to the developer.
• Advising clients in the waste industry and other
sectors in relation to various aspects of the UK
waste management licensing regime and the “waste
duty of care” requirements.
Permitting
Case Study
We were instructed to conduct a review on behalf of the operator of two UK petrochemical plants of its permitting
arrangements, including its PPC, GHG and landfill permits.
We worked alongside environmental consultants to review the extent to which the operator was in compliance
with the permit conditions (including whether any reporting obligations had been triggered as a result of the
identification of significant contamination that was potentially migrating offsite into a river) and assess its potential
liabilities upon permit surrender, i.e. to remediate the site back to baseline level.
The review identified that the operator had not been complying the soil and groundwater monitoring obligations
under its SPMP (Site Protection and Monitoring Plan) and also that monitoring boreholes established at the start
of the permit had been incorrectly installed, resulting in potentially inaccurate monitoring data. We worked with
the operator to address this without triggering reporting duties, to ensure that the operator had sufficient quality
data when required for the purposes of preparing a Site Condition Report for the eventual surrender of the
permit.
The review ultimately facilitated the successful transfer of all relevant permits to a purchaser of the sites with a full
release for the seller.
Permitting

Reed Smith is one of the world’s leading energy law
firms, and the firm’s environmental team advises
clients on a wide range of environmental issues
associated with the generation, supply and
consumption of energy, including:
• Sustainability and support of biomass and biofuels
• Renewable energy incentive mechanisms
• Energy from waste
• Energy procurement
• LNG and shale gas
We also advise on all aspects of international climate
change and emissions law and policy, including
emission reduction projects, emissions trading, carbon
disclosure and reporting requirements, insurance of
climate change risks, and carbon capture and storage.
Our work covers:
• All aspects of the European Union Emissions
Trading Scheme (EU ETS)
• Emissions reduction projects under the Kyoto
Protocol flexible mechanisms (Clean Development
Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI)
projects)
• Voluntary emissions reduction projects and offset
initiatives
• Carbon trading disputes
• Assisting a European national oil company in
security-appropriate duty exemptions and
renewables obligation certificates in respect of its
supplies of biodiesel made from 100 percent
hydrogenated biomass.
• Separately advising various power generation and
distribution companies, an aircraft manufacturer
and lessors, a pharmaceuticals manufacturer,
several major oil companies, and others on their
rights and obligations under Phases I, II and III of
the EU ETS, and the strategic issues arising.
• Advising the UNFCCC’s Green Climate Fund in
relation to the establishment of a framework
agreement to provide funding of up to $100bn
annually for climate change adaptation and
mitigation projects.
• Representing various project developers and
private and institutional investors in a number of
CDM and JI projects around the world, including in
Africa, Brazil, Mexico, China, Russia, Bulgaria and
Israel, in relation to due diligence, project
development, financing and implementation, and all
regulatory aspects of project approval, emissions
reduction verification, and credit issuance and
distribution.
• Representing a consortium of investors on the
construction of a new 25 MW biomass fired power
plant, intended to provide power to the production
plant of a global automotive manufacturer,
including: input to planning application, negotiation
of 100 year site lease and all access rights,
accreditation under the Renewables Obligation
Order, 5-year renewable contract for the supply of
biomass, power purchase agreement, grid
connection and EPC construction contracts.
Energy and emissions
Case Study
We were appointed by one of the largest corporate consumers of power in the UK to represent it in procuring a 5-
year, £200 million per annum contract for the supply of renewable electricity to meet all its UK power needs. We
helped the client to develop documents supporting a competitive tender process, to hedge forward positions in
advance of conclusion of the main supply contract and then to conduct negotiations to near final contract terms
with three separate power suppliers. The client had adopted a company policy to source 100% of its power from
renewable sources. The contract therefore included detailed provisions relating to the sourcing of power and
associated “green certificates”, electricity source labelling, future proofing against changes to future renewable
energy policy and taxation, and the sleeving into the contract of the client’s various existing renewable power PPAs.
Energy and emissions

We advise some of the world’s leading producers and
suppliers of consumer and business products on the
range of laws and regulations governing supply and
use of substances, product design and safety, use of
materials, labelling, packaging, marketing and end-of-
life obligations.
We assist clients throughout the life cycle of their
products to implement product stewardship measures,
work effectively within their supply chain to achieve
compliance, manage regulator interactions and resolve
compliance issues.
Our services in this area include:-
• EU REACH and other global REACH-like regimes
• CLP and CE marking
• the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE), Restriction of use of Hazardous Substances
(RoHS) and other “producer responsibility” and take-
back obligations
• Batteries regulation
• Eco-design and energy efficiency
• Biocompatibility
• Environmental marketing and ‘green claims’
• Waste management and ‘circular economy’
measures
• Conflict Minerals
• Product safety, withdrawals and recalls
• Advising many different companies in connection
with all aspects of REACH compliance, including pre-
registration, registration, corporate restructuring to
facilitate optimum REACH compliance strategies,
issues associated with importation and treatment
and processing of product in and outside customs
supervision, etc.
• Advising a U.S. fashion retailer on EU General
Product Safety Directive, CE marking, safety labelling
and packaging requirements in connection with
sales into the EU.
• Advising a minerals trading company on Conflicts
Minerals due diligence and compliance and
assisting them through the process of establishing
an effective conflict minerals policy and procedures.
• Advising numerous EU and non-EU clients in the
electronics, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and other
industries in relation to compliance obligations
under WEEE, RoHS and Construction Products
Regulations.
• Advising a European retailer in connection with its
failure to comply with the producer responsibility
obligations regarding packaging waste in multiple
jurisdictions.
• Supporting a global manufacturer of electric
vehicles to design its lithium-ion battery take-back
scheme, including preparing and submitting a
position paper to the regulator and successfully
obtaining regulatory approval of the scheme.
• Advising a manufacturer regarding green claims
requirements under consumer protection laws and
the ASA CAP Code.
Product compliance
Case Study
A global technology company hired us to carry out a multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance review in connection
with a new consumer product launch. The review was highly confidential and time critical.
Since review of the laws of all 28 EU member states was impractical both in terms of time and budget, we worked
with the client to devise a targeted risk strategy, focussing on analysis of overarching EU laws and then the carrying
out of a gap/variations analysis in a handful of chosen EU jurisdictions selected to cover key sales markets, civil
code jurisdictions, eastern and western Europe and jurisdictions perceived to have the most rigorous enforcement
regimes.
We took the lead in issue-spotting and authoring the primary analysis, supervised the input of local lawyers from
our own offices and external firms, including technical consultants where needed, and took the lead in producing
an easy to read final combined report.
The report covered, among other matters chemical substance regulation, end-of-life take back obligations,
batteries regulation, packaging and labelling requirements, eco-design, biocompatibility and electromagnetic
interference.
Product compliance

We advise clients on the vast array of emerging EU and
international environmental and climate-change-
related legislation.
We have an in-depth, practical understanding of the EU
legislative process and considerable experience of
successfully lobbying the European Commission,
Parliament and EU Council, as well as domestic
governments and regulators, to secure amendments
to proposed EU environmental legislation on behalf of
our clients.
Our emerging legislation monitoring service affords our
clients maximum opportunity to seek to influence its
form and content, and prepare for implementation.
We can provide a bespoke legislation monitoring and
government relations service for clients to suit their
particular needs and budget.
In recent years we have advised clients on compliance
with and/or lobbied on behalf of clients for legislative
change in relation to:
• ICAO proposals for a global “market-based
measures” scheme for international aviation
emissions.
• The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
(WEEE) Directive and its sister directive on the
Restriction on the use of Hazardous Substances
(RoHS).
• The REACH Chemicals Regulation.
• The End-of-Life Vehicles Directive.
• The UK’s Community Energy Savings Programme
(CESP).
• Renewable Transport Fuel Certificates in respect of
biofuels.
• The development, implementation and operation of
the EU ETS, including proposals for Phase III of the
EU ETS.
• EU proposals to expand the EU ETS scheme to the
aviation and shipping industries.
• The Environmental Liability Directive, including
proposals to expand its scope to cover all offshore
installations.
• The EU Waste Batteries Directive.
Emerging legislation
Case Study
Following extensive lobbying efforts, and after eventually having to commence judicial review proceedings against
the UK government, we successfully achieved a complete u-turn in government policy on biofuel subsidies and a
change in the relevant statute in favour of our client.
The UK government offers subsidies to the producers of certain biofuels in the form of Renewable Transport Fuel
Certificates. Our client produces a market leading biofuel with many environmental and performance advantages
over other more traditional biofuels. Despite this, for historical reasons the relevant legislation was worded so as to
award our client less RTFCs than other, less sustainable competitor products.
Together with our client, we lobbied the UK Department for Transport and others on this issue, attending several
meetings with relevant policy makers to explain the unfairness in the treatment of our client's product, arguing that
the relevant UK legislation was unlawfully discriminative and therefore contrary to EU competition and trade laws.
Despite acknowledging the strength of our arguments, government representatives appeared unwilling to amend
the relevant legislation to remove this inequitable treatment.
On behalf of our client, we therefore secured a tactical formal "decision" from the government which we knew would
be unfavourable to our client, but enabled us to bring judicial review proceedings challenging the reasonableness
and rationality of that decision.
In the face of this judicial review challenge, the government backed down and agreed to amend the law. Amending
legislation giving our client's product fully equal treatment was agreed with our client in draft, consulted upon and
enacted within the same year.
Emerging legislation

We help our clients assess and manage environmental
and product risks, and develop strategies to minimise
the potential for litigation or regulatory action. Some
disputes are, however, unavoidable, and sometimes it is
necessary to take proactive legal action to protect our
clients’ interests or defend our clients against regulatory
or third-party actions.
We have decades of environmental dispute resolution
experience, including representing clients in:
• defence of regulatory investigations and enforcement
actions
• toxic tort cases and other civil and administrative
litigation, arbitration and mediation
• judicial review of environmental authority decisions
• handling of environmental warranty, indemnity and
insurance claims
• dealing with product liability and product recall
situations
We can also provide our clients with a global emergency
response and risk management service tailored to local
legal and commercial conditions.
We have experience in preparing clients to deal with,
and guiding them through, on and offshore pollution
and other major environmental incidents and explosions
and other significant industrial incidents.
• Acting for a major petrochemical plant in a large
number of downwind respiratory illness claims
alleged to have been caused by emissions from the
plant.
• Acting in a fuel oil spillage contamination claim
dealing with damage to neighbouring properties, and
the co-ordination of a remediation programme
approved by the Environment Agency.
• Representing an industrial client in defence of a High
Court action involving allegations of common law
nuisance and negligence by more than 150 local
residents concerning emissions from a coking plant.
• Successfully challenging, by way of judicial review,
national CO2 emissions allowance allocation
methodology decisions on behalf of several industrial
clients dissatisfied with their allowance allocations
under the European Emissions Trading Scheme.
• Advising clients in relation to an urgent product recall
and liability situation concerning goods and parts
supplied in large numbers across the EU containing
asbestos, including appointing and working alongside
media consultants and technical specialists.
• Acting for an oil major in relation to liabilities arising
out of the Buncefield oil storage terminal explosion.
Environmental litigation and emergency
response
Case Study
Our client had operated its coal and coke production facility for approximately 100 years. A village had grown up
around it over the years and many of the local inhabitants had worked at the client's industrial plant.
Despite the fact that our client's environmental performance had steadily improved over the years, and was in broad
compliance with all applicable environmental laws and permit terms (never once having been prosecuted), personal
injury lawyers had advertised in the area and agreed to bring claims against our client in nuisance on behalf of local
residents on a "no win, no fee" basis for anyone claiming to have suffered noise, dust and/or odour nuisance from the
plant.
In all, some 150 households joined the action in which the various claims were consolidated under a "Group Litigation
Order" (what in the US would be called a Class Action). The Claimants sought substantial alleged damages for loss of
amenity and related losses, and more importantly for our client, an injunction seeking to restrict and/or change the
time/nature of the operations at the plant.
We defended the proceedings vigorously on behalf of our client over a 4 year period, deploying extensive expert
evidence to demonstrate that the allegations of noise, dust and odour nuisance were wildly exaggerated and in some
cases simply not possible (for example by correlating complaints with wind speeds, directions, dust deposition rates
etc).
Ultimately, the claims for an injunction were dropped altogether and we were able to secure a very favourable out of
court settlement for our client in relation to the damages claims following a day long mediation with claimant
representatives and their lawyers.
Environmental litigation

We advise on all aspects of waste management law,
including duty of care obligations, hazardous and
clinical waste regulation, permitting, definition of waste
and by-products, and end-of-waste status.
We have acted for waste producers, handlers,
processors and landfill operators with respect to
operational issues and regulatory interactions.
We also advise on international shipment of waste laws
including:.
• the Basel Convention
• the OECD Decision
• the EU Waste Shipments Regulations
• the International Convention for the Prevention of
Pollution from Ships (MARPOL)
• other regional and bi-lateral state agreements
• laws relating to NORM waste
The ability to advise clients in this area also requires a
detailed understanding of when the law will regard a
substance as “waste” (a complex topic in itself) and how
the law will determine whether the waste in question is
hazardous or non-hazardous. Since most international
shipments of waste are by sea, this area also requires
and understanding of the interaction between
international waste regimes on the one hand and the
MARPOL Convention on the other.
Waste management:
• Advising a global pharmaceuticals manufacturer
and separately, a global consumer electronics
manufacturerin connection with compliance with
UK and EU hazardous waste laws.
• Advising a vehicle manufacturer in relation to
serious and sustained breaches of waste
classification and duty of care obligations.
• Advising a multinational oil and gas company in
relation to the handling of oil-contaminated waste
water resulting from its tanker offloading process.
Transfrontier shipment of waste:
• Support in connection with applications for prior
informed consent.
• Responding to regulatory investigations of
international waste shipments.
• The treatment of “off-spec” cargoes.
• Advice in connection with the application of
transboundary movement of waste rules to the
offshore oil and gas industry.
• Advising a German industrial waste management
company in cross-border waste transportation and
disposal permitting and compliance.
Waste: management and shipment
Case Study
We were instructed by a distribution company to carry out an environmental, health & safety audit of certain aspects
of its operations. The original scope of our engagement did not cover waste issues.
Our audit revealed excellent levels of compliance throughout the majority of the business. However, although out of
scope we identified during our review that the client appeared potentially to be handling waste in the form of
returned goods which it was storing and eventually disposing of on behalf of manufacturers for whom it performed
packing and distribution functions.
In some instances, it appeared that goods that might well be classified as waste were also being shipped across
national boundaries, potentially in conflict with international laws on the transboundary shipment of waste.
Our remit was expanded to cover advice on waste designation, classification, storage, treatment and permitting and
transboundary shipment.
In light of our advice, significant amendments were made to the client’s operating procedures to ensure future
compliance with waste laws without the need to engage regulators or limit the range of services offered to its
customers. Procedures enacted included the manner and timing of the giving of disposal instructions, volumes and
periods of storage, aged-stock clearance strategy and the appropriate use of external contractors.
The project resulted in our client having a competitive edge over rival firms both in terms of the future efficiency of
its operations and protection from regulatory enforcement in a notoriously “grey area” of waste law.
Waste management and shipment

The closure of industrial and other contaminated sites
will tend to crystallise certain environmental liabilities
and generate enhanced regulatory scrutiny.
Environmental permits will need to be transferred or
surrendered, which may trigger obligations to clean up
any pollution caused during the life of the permit.
Other site clean-up may be needed to prepare a site
for sale and/or redevelopment.
A range of new licences and consents may be required
for the demolition, decommissioning and remediation
activities proposed.
Our lawyers are experienced in all of these areas. Our
services in connection with the decommissioning and
closure of on and offshore installations include:
• Environmental Impact Assessment (particularly
relevant for offshore decommissioning projects)
• Site condition/baseline comparison analysis
• Development of detailed options appraisals and
remediation strategies
• Transfer and surrender of permits
• Negotiations with regulatory authorities
• Associated waste disposal issues
• Advising a multinational tar distiller in connection
with site closure, PPC/EPR permit surrender and
remediation of an associated landfill and acid tar
lagoon upon site closure.
• Advising a UK speciality chemicals manufacturer on
environmental indemnity, IPPC and real estate
issues associated with the closure of a major
chemical works in South Wales.
• Advising various clients in connection with the
environmental aspects of the decommissioning of
North Sea oil and gas installations.
• Advising a major chemicals manufacturer in the
decommissioning and disposal of certain European
chemicals manufacturing facilities.
• Advising a chemical manufacturer in relation to the
remediation of NORM contamination at a former
manufacturing facility.
Closure, decommissioning clean-up and
disposal
Case Study
We represented the owner and operator in the closure, decommissioning and sale of two chemicals manufacturing
facilities in which we successfully secured the transfer of all environmental permits and all historic soil &
groundwater pollution risk to the fullest extent possible.
The sites had a long history of heavy industrial use and previous site investigations had identified significant
contamination at both sites.
Most notably, hydrocarbons were suspected to be migrating beyond the boundary of one of the sites into a main
river and the other site was significantly impacted by a highly acidic lagoon and landfill.
Extensive ground investigations had been performed to prepare the sites for closure and decommissioning when a
potential buyer for the sites was found. The parties agreed an ambitious timescale to reach exchange of contracts.
Within three weeks our team populated a comprehensive data site, dealt with all buyer enquiries, and negotiated to
signature the main asset purchase agreement and related transfer documents which included a full transfer of past
and future environmental risk.
As part of the acquisition, the buyer agreed to take a transfer of the environmental permits and historic waste
management licences for both sites, including all liabilities associated with those permits and licences and this was
achieved in the following weeks prior to completion. The sale achieved a successful “clean exit” for the seller from its
UK operations.
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