The deal began during New York Climate week in September 2024. Amid the hustle and the chaos, Lev Gantly asked Michael Byrd and Ryan Covington whether they would be interested in joining forces. Gantly is a partner at Dublin law firm Philip Lee where he leads the firm’s work on carbon markets and climate law. Byrd and Covington are New York lawyers who left big law behind four years ago to set up Skylight Law, their own boutique firm focused specifically on decarbonisation.  The two teams had been referring work across the Atlantic to each other for months. Now, Gantly…

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