Nick Rock

Partner

Global Co-Chair, Consumer Goods, Food and Retail Sector

International Co-head of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) & Product Compliance

Emailnick.rock@akd.partners

Call+44 7740 599 058

London

About

Nick Rock has over 25 years’ experience specialising in EU, UK and International Environmental, Health & Safety, Product Regulatory, Chemicals, ESG and Climate Change laws.

He is consistently recognised as a leading individual for Environmental Law by The Legal 500, Chambers, London Super Lawyers, The Best Lawyers™ in the United Kingdom, Who’s Who Legal for Environmental Lawyers, and for Climate Change.

Nick’s experience also spans handling the environmental, health & safety aspects of complex commercial transactions, disputes and large projects, particularly in the on and off-shore energy and natural resources, chemicals and technology sectors. He has acted for: developers, operators, lenders, private equity investors and others in the development, disposal, acquisition, financing and/or decommissioning of power stations and related infrastructure, wind, solar, biomass, bioliquids and biofuels facilities, oil refineries, petrochemicals facilities, mines, paper mills, manufacturing facilities, landfill sites, waste transfer stations and recycling plants.

Nick also has a wealth of experience in the EU regulatory aspects of bringing a new product to market, through eco-design, production, importation, distribution and supply, to managing product risk, liability and recall to end-of-life take back across a wide range of sectors. He is an acknowledged expert in eco-design, circular economy, e-waste, product liability and recall, as well as all aspects of EU chemicals (REACH, CLP, Biocides etc.).

Areas of FocusEnvironment, Health and Safety Compliance Sustainability Consumer Goods Energy and Natural Resources Data Centers

Professional QualificationsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

Awards

Legal 500 – Health & Safety – Leading Partner

Legal 500 – Environment – Hall of Fame

“A sound knowledge of the consumer field.”

“A market leader in [the Environment, Health and Safety] field.”

“A good strategist with an eye for detail, but able to keep perspective on the bigger picture"

Chambers and Partners – Ranked in Band 2 for Environment & Climate Change

“Nick Rock is just outstanding and understands the business's priority.”

“[Nick Rock] is really good, very strategic.”

"Nick is commercially brilliant, understands our business and team perfectly, and stays ahead of the pack in a dynamic regulatory landscape."

"[Nick is ] thoughtful, articulate and a good negotiator in the sense that he can take a hard-line position but does so in an inoffensive way. He has an uncanny ability to pick up on points that no one else seems to have thought about."

"Highly skilled lawyer, tactician and negotiator" can "turn his hand to unusual issues and find a commercial solution." "highly knowledgeable and astute regarding the interconnection between environmental matters and commercial issues."