About

The author of this blog site is Kevin Daehnke, of Daehnke Cruz Law Group, located in Newport Beach, California.  Mr. Daehnke is a 27-year environmental law lawyer, with both big firm and small firm experience, and what he calls a contaminated properties practice. Mr. Daehnke has long been at the forefront of innovative ideas and strategies associated with the cleanup, reuse and re-positioning of contaminated real estate assets.   He was responsible for creating a ground-breaking tool in the “Brownfields” arena, and then drafting Senate Bill 989 to implement the idea, and even shepherding the SB 989 bill to a successful outcome through the California legislative process.  In addition to being at the forefront of legislative and regulatory endeavors in his chosen area of specialty, Mr. Daehnke is a frequent author and lecturer, and has served in leadership roles on numerous panels and committees.

Over the past 27 years Mr. Daehnke has been exposed to numerous situations where inadequate business succession and estate planning efforts have resulted in dire environmental cleanup liability consequences that could have been largely avoidable if proper planning had occurred.  It is because of these first-hand experiences, and because of the law firm’s many years at the forefront of innovative strategies relating to the cleanup of contaminated properties, that this blog site was created. Mr. Daehnke and the law firm have developed cutting edge strategies that can significantly minimize concerns associated with the passing of contaminated properties to business partners, heirs or beneficiaries upon death. For more about the law firm and its specific areas of expertise, including the law firm’s extensive outreach efforts regarding environmental liability issues in the business succession and estate planning arena, and for a copy of Mr. Daehnke’s bio, please visit DaehnkeCruz.com.  Mr. Daehnke’s bio is also attached immediately below.