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Representation of Mercy Hospital in all real estate and transactional aspects, including financing, for the acquisition and development of a major new hospital campus project along the Fore River in Portland, Maine. This project required the assemblage of multiple parcels, negotiating easements and crossings with the Portland Terminal Company railroad, the negotiation with the City of Portland for a special contract zone to accommodate the development, negotiating with the State of Maine DOT for the construction of a new access road connecting I-295 and the riverfront, working with various community groups, such as Portland Trails, to reach a community consensus on the project and incorporating community issues into the project, working with the DEP on wetland remediation and natural wildlife concerns and clearing ancient claims of title and relocation of public roads.
In Georgia, we advised the Ministry of Energy on a variety of issues related to promotion of hydropower investment for export of electricity to Turkey, including an assessment of the legal and regulatory framework for investment in the hydropower sector, drafting of an Information Memorandum for private investors, review of the Market Rules, drafting and negotiation of a Cross-Border Electricity Trade Agreement between Turkey and Georgia which was executed in January 2012, and development of a new market design.
Assisted in cleanup, redevelopment, and permitting of a former paper mill on a 40-acre river site into a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Brewer, Maine, which is now constructing large-scale, high-tech building components for industrial facilities and shipping them via ocean barging. The firm addressed state and local environmental and land use permitting and real estate issues, including issues arising from historic contamination, negotiated numerous environmental and real estate concerns with interested parties, and facilitated the Voluntary Response Action Plan issued by the Maine DEP.
We assisted Moki Doorstep with corporate and intellectual property strategy and implementation related to a portable step that affixes to a vehicle door frame, offering a simple solution to reach a car roof. Moki’s Kickstarter campaign raised $110,736 from 2,220 backers in just 30 days, and was followed by an appearance on ABC’s “Shark Tank.”
Provide corporate and regulatory counsel to a large, Boston-based banking institution in connection with the monetization of federal and state income tax credits associated with a wide variety of energy projects.
Representation of Urbanica, Inc. and its affiliate UHomes LLC in connection with the acquisition and construction financing for a multifamily residential project to be located at 90 Antwerp Street, Brighton, Massachusetts.
As development of the Marcellus shale natural gas formation accelerated in 2010, Texas Eastern Transmission, a major interstate pipeline, and its large utility customers began to develop new quality specifications for natural gas shipped on the pipeline. Although Appalachian natural gas has long included high concentrations of ethane, and that gas previously met pipeline quality specifications and posed no threat to pipelines or consumer equipment, the large utilities wanted the ethane removed from the gas stream – at the producer's cost. The principal market for ethane is the petrochemical manufacturing region in Texas and Louisiana and there is no existing pipeline or other reasonable means of shipping the ethane. Representing long-time gas producer association clients Independent Oil & Gas Association of West Virginia, Inc. and Independent Oil & Gas Association of Pennsylvania, Pierce Atwood led the efforts to forge a multiparty settlement of the quality specifications at FERC. Pierce Atwood's efforts avoided costly litigation and secured the producers and pipelines upstream of Texas Eastern significant flexibility and gas quality standards that ensure Marcellus shale gas and traditional Appalachian supplies will meet pipeline specifications and flow to critical northeastern market.
We provided immigration support for NAFTA L-1 and TN applications required for a core project team to accomplish a high-value internal business improvement project involving roll-out and “go live” implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) applications for Cavendish Farms facilities in the United States and Canada.
