Represented FMC’s Rockland, Maine manufacturing facility, the largest producer of carrageenan in North America, on environmental permitting, counseling, compliance, and strategic matters. Carrageenan is a natural colloid extracted from seaweed; it is used in many health care and food products, including toothpaste, pharmaceutical tablets, ice cream, bakery mixes, processed meat products, and beverages.

Represent the Maine Forest Products Council, the state's only trade association representing Maine timberland owners, forest products companies, and related suppliers, on environmental, land use, forestry, commercial, tax, and antitrust issues.

We represented a newly formed company in the semiconductor robotics industry in its initial formation, establishing the documentary and procedural basis for clean intellectual property ownership and employee equity incentives. We then assisted this client in structuring and negotiating its initial financing from an international strategic investor.

We represent Fox Islands Wind LLC, the developer and operator of an innovative island community wind project, in all aspects of its business, including environmental permitting, real estate, litigation, corporate, and compliance matters.

Represented Fox Islands Wind, LLC in the development of an innovative initiative supported by the island's consumer-owned electric cooperative, nonprofit institutions, and private investors, which included the receipt of federal production tax credits.

We are assisting Ascendant, BELCO, and other Ascendant companies with preparing comprehensive legislation, implementing regulations, and related materials for consideration by Ascendant and other stakeholders within Bermuda, in order to create a legal, regulatory, and publicly accepted framework that will support necessary investment in energy infrastructure (including renewable generation and a proposed LNG import facility, to permit gas-fired power generation), demand-side management, a significant roof-top PV program, and related efforts to diversify BELCO’s generation portfolio, and stabilize customer costs, while maintaining a robust and reliable system and without triggering further retail price hikes that would be politically infeasible.

Working closely with businesses and state and federal trade associations, we successfully opposed a drastic revision of Maine’s franchise statute on behalf of a national restaurant franchise. Defeat of this bill was vital, as it proposed unreasonable involvement by the state in the contractual relationships negotiated between franchisors and franchisees and would have severely limited the ability of franchisors to protect their brands.

Assisting Bright Community Capital, a subsidiary of Coastal Enterprises, Inc., with all aspects of fund formation and capital raise efforts for a tax equity fund and a sponsor equity fund, which will be used to acquire mid-size solar PV projects with a focus on those in low-income areas or benefitting low-income people.

General counsel for JAG Productions, Vermont’s first black theatre company.

Pierce Atwood assisted GO Lab, Inc., d/b/a TimberHP on all aspects of the development of its wood fiber insulation manufacturing facility at the former UPM paper mill in Madison, Maine, beginning with the acquisition of the mill in 2019, through the closing of the sale of $85 million tax-exempt green bonds issued by the Finance Authority of Maine, a $24 million New Markets Tax Credit transaction, and a $25 million Series A equity raise. These funds provide the up-front capital needed to turn the former paper mill into the first wood fiber insulation manufacturing plant in North America.

We represent the national electric transmission company of Kyrgyzstan in negotiating all project documents related to the development of the Central Asia-South Asia (CASA-1000) Transmission Project, a 1300 MW transmission line to enable the sale of excess summer hydropower from the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The $1.3 billion project, to be financed by the World Bank and other multilateral institutions, involves construction of three DC/AC converters, over 750 km of HVDC lines and 477 km of HVAC lines. The project achieved financial close in April 2015 and construction is scheduled to start in 2016.

Represented Great Bay Renewables in connection with the formation of a joint venture between certain funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., and Altius Renewable Royalties Corp. to accelerate the growth of Great Bay’s innovative renewable energy royalty business.