Lynn L. Bergeson

President

T: 202-266-5021

F: 202-557-3836

M: 202-257-2872

E: lbergeson@actagroup.com

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Overview

Lynn L. Bergeson, President of The Acta Group (Acta^®), has earned an international reputation for her deep and expansive understanding of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the European Union Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), and especially how these regulatory programs pertain to nanotechnology, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, and other emerging transformative technologies. Ms. Bergeson’s peerless mastery of the complex interplay between chemical innovation, regulatory oversight, policy making, and product commercialization, and her decades of experience as an entrepreneur and business owner, allow her to develop client-focused and business-sensitive strategies whether advocating before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. state regulatory agencies, or other governance and standard-setting bodies.

Ms. Bergeson employs a highly sophisticated, nuanced approach to problem solving as she assists corporations, trade associations, and business consortia to commercialize new technologies, access new markets, extend the commercial life of an efficacious chemical product, obtain a derogation of a chemical use, or secure a competitive advantage in a new market or territory. Ms. Bergeson is a tireless and dynamic advocate for clients commercializing new chemicals with environmental, financial, and performance benefits for both industry and populations. She counsels clients on a wide range of issues pertaining to product stewardship; chemical hazard, exposure, and risk assessment; risk communication; and product lifecycle strategy.

While she is widely regarded as the preeminent practicioner in chemical and chemical product regulation and policy, Ms. Bergeson knows that clients seek more than sophisticated compliancestrategy: they require a business partner who will help them harness evolving global regulatory and policy matters to enhance company value and growth. As an entrepreneur with an innate understanding of the myriad challenges that face successful chemical business enterprises, Ms. Bergeson delivers vital expertise on commercial market strategies. Ms. Bergeson deploys a unique business model — composed of consulting firm, law firm, and consortia management firm — to help clients accelerate commercialization of new substances and products. Under her leadership, this trio of companies provides unparalleled support across jurisdictions and cultures, ensuring superior client service worldwide.

Ms. Bergeson’s focus has always been directed both at serving clients and the common good. She served as chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources and as chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Agriculture and Food Section. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association, and is a recent past President of the Product Stewardship Society. Ms. Bergeson is a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) and serves as a Regent and on its Executive Committee. Ms. Bergeson has become the driving force behind community events such as the yearly TSCA Symposium with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. Where no organization exists to address a critical factor in the safe and reliable regulation of chemicals and products, Ms. Bergeson forms it, as she did with the Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group, the Coalition for Chemical Innovations (CCI), and the TSCA New Chemicals Coalition.

In addition to publishing scores of articles and books on legal, regulatory, business, and science policy issues, since 2018 Ms. Bergson has hosted the “All Things Chemical^®” podcast, engaging listeners with intelligent, insightful conversation with global regulators, industry leaders, non-governmental organization (NGO) advocates, and legal and scientific peers and colleagues. Ms. Bergeson is also Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C*), a Washington D.C. law firm focusing on conventional, biobased, and nanoscale industrial, agricultural, and specialty chemical product approval and regulation, product defense, and associated business issues, and President of B&C^® Consortia Management, L.L.C., which helps the chemical industry leverage resources and maximize impact by forming consortia to achieve shared research, testing, regulatory, and access goals.

Representative Engagements

Assists a global manufacturer of industrial and consumer products to register and maintain chemical product approvals in all jurisdictions in which its products are marketed.
Assists several biobased chemical manufacturers to address difficult TSCA nomenclature and chemical identity issues and to devise and implement product stewardship protocols to manage these products with downstream stakeholders.
Assists clients to prepare and obtain approvals for chemicals produced by intergeneric microorganisms.

Professional and Community Involvement

Regent, ACOEL, 2022 – ; Executive Committee, 2022 -; Chair, Roundtable Task Force, 2023 –
Member, IBA Agriculture and Food Section Advisory Board, 2025 – ; Chair, IBA, Agriculture and Food Section, 2022 – 2024; Senior Vice Chair, IBA, Agriculture and Food Section, 2018 – 2021
Chair, IBA, Agriculture and Food Section, 2022 – ; Senior Vice Chair, IBA, Agriculture and Food Section, 2018 – 2021
Appointed by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley to serve on the Washington College Board of Visitors and Governors, 2013 – 2016, and by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, 2016 – 2022
Chair, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, 2005 – 2006
Past Chair, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Special Committee on TSCA Reform, 2009
Vice Chair, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, Pesticides and Chemicals Committee, 2008 –
Editor, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Pesticides and Chemicals Newsletter
Member, ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources Governance Committee, 2013 – 2014
Member, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Nanotechnology Standards Panel (NSP) Steering Committee, 2004 – 2005
Chair of the Environment, Health, and Safety Committee of the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association
Member, Steering Committee of EPA’s Pollution Prevention through Nanotechnology Conference
Member, ISO Technical Committee 229 on Nanotechnologies Steering Committee, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Conference on Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology: Fostering Safe Innovation-Led Growth, Paris, France, 2009

Articles and Writings

Lynn L. Bergeson, Lisa R. Burchi, Richard E. Engler, Ph.D., Kelly N. Garson, Carla N. Hutton, and Todd J. Stedeford, Ph.D., DABT®, ERT, ATS, co-authors, “Chemical Product Law and Supply Chain Stewardship: A Guide to New TSCA,” ABA Book Publishing (2025).
Lynn L. Bergeson, Kelly N. Garson, and Lara A. Hall, “Testing, Testing,” Environmental Forum, March/April 2025.
Lynn L. Bergeson, Christopher R. Blunck, Lisa R. Burchi, Richard E. Engler, Ph.D., Carla N. Hutton, and Todd J. Stedeford, Ph.D., DABT®, ERT, ATS, co-authors, “Guide to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA),” LexisNexis (2024).
Lynn L. Bergeson, “Managing risk: what the EPA’s TSCA chemical use bans tell us,” Financier Worldwide, August 2024.

Presentations

“Determining PFAS Content in Your Supply Chain and Expanding Data Collection Practice,” Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., (July 13, 2024).
“There Is More to TSCA Reporting Than CDR: TSCA Sections 8(a), (c), (d), and (e),” Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., (June 18, 2024).
“Sponsor’s Role in Regulatory Testing — Complying with GLP Standards,” Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., (June 13, 2024).
“Harmonizing TSCA Consent Orders with OSHA HCS 2012,” Bergeson & Campbell, P.C., (May 14, 2024).

B&C, Acta, and BCCM provide a full range of global support for the commercialisation of chemicals, biocides, and products of industrial biotechnology, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology.

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Education

BA, Michigan State University, 1975, magna cum laude
JD, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, 1979, Law Review

Bar & Court Admissions

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2020
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1982
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1983
District of Columbia, 1980

Rankings & Recognition

Chambers and Partners USA: Environmental Law, Washington, D.C., Ranked Lawyer: Band 1 (2017 – 2024)
Super Lawyers (2008-2024)
The Best Lawyers in America®: Washington, DC’s Best Lawyers in Environmental Law (2009, 2013 – 2025)
U.S. News & World Report: Best Law Firms, First-Tier Ranking for Environmental Law (2012 – 2025)
Who’s Who Legal of Environment Lawyers (2004 – 2024)
Who’s Who Legal, Environment Leading Practitioners/Global Elite Thought Leaders (2009, 2013 – 2024)
Chambers and Partners USA: Environmental Law Notable Practitioner (2005 – 2020)
Lexology Thought Leader, Infrastructure (2018 – 2025)
National Law Review Go-To Thought Leader (2019 – 2024)
Washingtonian’s List of Top Lawyers (2009 – 2019)
Product Stewardship Society: Allan K. Fleeger Distinguished Service Award (2024)
Super Lawyers: Top 50 Women Washington, D.C. (2018, 2020)
2011 Inductee, American College of Environmental Lawyers
Martindale-Hubbell’s Top Women Lawyers in the Northeast for Environmental Law (2011)
Law360’s Five Most Admired Environmental Attorneys (2010)
Nanotechnology Law & Business’s List of Top Ten Experts in Environmental, Health, and Safety Issues Related to Engineered Nanomaterials (2009)

Lynn L. Bergeson

Overview

Representative Engagements

Professional and Community Involvement

Articles and Writings

Presentations

B&C, Acta, and BCCM provide a full range of global support for the commercialisation of chemicals, biocides, and products of industrial biotechnology, nanotechnology, and synthetic biology.

Education

Bar & Court Admissions

Rankings & Recognition

Our Firms

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