Service Areas
- Businesses
- Environmental
- International Business
- Automotive
- Climate Change
- Governments + Nonprofits
- Environmental
- Climate Change
Education
- Wayne State University Law School, J.D.
- Wayne State University, B.A.
Bar Admissions
- Michigan
Languages
- Italian
- Spanish
With more than $1.5 billion in transactions to date, Anna M. Maiuri has extensive experience in helping corporations, business owners and operators assess environmental liabilities when purchasing, selling or leasing assets both across the country and around the world. She is particularly experienced in helping utility companies and manufacturers achieve regulatory compliance through effective negotiations with governmental regulators that result in cost-effective strategies that fulfill both the client's and the regulator's needs. Anna has saved her clients over half a million dollars in penalties through reasoned negotiations of various consent orders for Clean Air Act, CERCLA, Part 201 and other alleged regulatory violations. To each of her clients, Anna brings a comprehensive understanding of the various environmental laws and regulations and how regulators interpret them.
“The most important asset an attorney can bring to a client is the ability to decipher the client's true goals and objectives -- sometimes before the client even knows what they are – and then develop a strategy for achieving them.”
Anna M. Maiuri
Experience
Anna also has extensive experience in complex matters including developing a strategy to address methane issues at a former municipal landfill, obtaining wetland determinations, and obtaining a remedial action plan approval for
Anna was instrumental in breaking a deadlock between the client and regulators that was holding up an environmental remedial action plan. By bringing all the parties together -- in a six-hour marathon meeting -- and persuading everyone that doing what is in the public’s best interest put them all on the same side, she and her team were able to find common ground and develop a strategy to get the plan approved.
In another matter, Anna coordinated a team of environmental attorneys and consultants to assess the environmental liabilities in a $400-plus million transaction involving an automotive supplier client seeking to purchase 45 various manufacturing facilities in 15 countries.
And in another case, Anna was asked to step in on behalf of a client that was having a difficult time with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) regarding several violations at a particular site. As a result, efforts at remediation were stymied. Although she was not working with that particular site at the time, the client sought Anna’s help to repair the relationship and get remedial efforts back on track. By developing an action list, assigning tasks and developing concrete agendas for meetings with the regulators, she and her team were able to get the vast majority of compliance issues completed within one year, thus avoiding a significant penalty and restoring positive dialogue with the MDEQ.
“My prior experience as an auditor for the U.S. General Accounting Office gives me unique insight into the way government and regulators work – and where the system sometimes fails. My clients benefit because I understand what happens behind the scenes.”
Professional Activities
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of Michigan, Elected to Environmental Law Council, 2006-present
- Oakland County Bar Association
- State Bar Representative Assembly of Michigan, Served over six years as an elected 6th Circuit Representative
Honors + Awards
- Wayne State University Law School, Assistant Editor, Wayne Law Review, 1991-1992
- Best Lawyers in America, Environmental 2007-2009
- Michigan Super Lawyers, Top 100 2006; Top 50 Women Michigan 2006-2008; Environmental 2006-2008
Civic, Cultural + Social Activities
- Detroit Economic Club, Member
- Detroit Regional Chamber, 2004-2005 Leadership Detroit, Class XXVI
- Automation Alley, Former Vice Chairperson of the Marketing; Committee, Subcommittee on Special Events
- Troy, Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Member Board of Directors, 2002-present; Women's Business Forum
- Michigan Chamber of Commerce, Environmental Law Section
- Organ Procurement Agency of Michigan, Speaker
- United Way, Miller Canfield Troy Office Facilitator for Annual United Way Campaign Allocations Committee, Speaker
- National Kidney Foundation, Spokesperson and Fundraiser
Publications
Featured in Grand Rapids Journal article titled "Environmental Issues Raise Tough Merger Questions," dated June 7, 1999.
Featured Spotlight Interview with Troy-Somerset Gazette, "She Helps Companies Clean Up Their Acts," August 8, 1996
"Update on Self-evaluation Audit Privilege Legislation," published in Laches, a publication of the Oakland County Bar Association, June 1995.
"Implications of Recent Changes to the Michigan Underground Storage Tank Act (MUSTFA) for Municipalities," Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone Government Law Update, 1995.
Speeches
Co-presenter with Brad Arbuckle, "FASB FIN 47 Compliance – Environmental Asset Retirement Obligations," OESA Environment, Health & Safety Council, December 12, 2006
Presentation on Assessing Environmental Liabilities for Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions to Hazardous Waste Management Wayne State University Law School Class on January 17, 2000, in Detroit, Michigan.
"Managing Environmental Liabilities in a Hot Economy: Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions Today," presentation to clients and consultants in full-day seminars on April 29, 1999 in Dearborn, Michigan, and May 5, 1999 in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Seminar speaker for Oakland County Bar Association seminar titled "Understanding and Applying Cleanup Standards," September 26, 1996.
Panelist, "Due Process," Channel 4, sponsored by the Oakland County Bar Association (A public service broadcast on organ donations), December 1994.
"Legal Considerations Concerning Underground Storage Tanks and the Michigan Underground Storage Tank Financial Assurance Act," presentation to clients and employees of The Traverse Group, Inc., March 1994.