By Derek Hawkins

Law360, New York (December 09, 2011, 12:08 PM ET) -- Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s Walter Lohmann helped Chemtura Corp. settle environmental remediation obligations at some 100 sites and transition out of bankruptcy with a clean slate, and his effective outreach strategy has earned him a spot among Law360’s Environmental MVPs.

Lohmann heads Kirkland’s environmental transactional practice group, the largest of its kind worldwide, which handles a range of environmental compliance and liability matters.

“I’m most energized by the process of taking very complex, very esoteric technical facts and translating them into terms that business people can understand,” Lohmann...