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Dave Bell is Senior Vice President, based in Cleveland, Ohio. He has practiced environmental law for over twenty years, primarily with one of the three supermajor global petroleum companies, and is known throughout the industry as a practical problem-solving lawyer. He has led negotiations for numerous precedent setting transactions, including a company-wide air enforcement settlement involving half a billion dollars in new pollution controls, insurance coverage buyouts, and risk transfer transactions. The latter have included an insured fixed price transaction for removal of a dam and contaminated sediment, and smaller transactions. In all, he has negotiated the environmental and related portions of some $5 to $10 billion in transactions. Dave has also settled numerous site remediation proceedings. Before affiliating with Environmental Risk Solutions, Mr. Bell was a Senior Attorney at BP. He served there as chief lawyer for the company’s $250+ million/year site remediation business. Prior to BP, Dave was at the law firm of Baker & Hostetler. He is past chair of the American Petroleum Institute’s Subcommittee on Environmental and Health Law. In addition to his work with Environmental Risk Solutions, Dave also maintains an environmental law practice. Mr. Bell received his law degree from Case Western Reserve University, and a B.S. in Chemistry, also from Case. | 