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Represented a multinational pipeline on achieving property tax abatements.
We helped a client to develop a tax efficient charitable giving plan wherein he will leave his estate to numerous charitable organizations. We customize such gifts to maximize value to the charitable organizations and minimize taxes, in this case using a combination of charitable trusts and outright gifts to endowments.
We successfully closed a $12.5 million SEC-registered common stock offering for our client, The First Bancorp, Inc., a $1.4 billion asset bank holding company headquartered in Damariscotta, Maine. This transaction enabled the client to redeem the remaining outstanding preferred stock it had issued to the U.S. Treasury Department under the TARP program in 2009 and achieve a significantly lower cost of capital.
The Business Group's Securities team has advised The Timberland Company for several years with respect to all of its Exchange Act reporting pursuant to a fixed-fee arrangement, helping this client manage its costs while improving service levels in this area.
Pierce Atwood represented GO Lab, Inc., d/b/a TimberHP, a manufacturing company that produces wood fiber insulation products for the residential and commercial construction market, in its collaborative partnership with Saint-Gobain through that company’s building products subsidiary CertainTeed Inc. Saint-Gobain is one of the world's largest and oldest building products companies.
Counsel for Time Warner Cable in successful defense of federal court copyright infringement claims concerning alleged unauthorized transmission of 137 television shows and seeking maximum statutory damages and attorneys' fees. Obtained summary judgment dismissing complaint on grounds that transmissions were not to the public under applicable copyright and FCC retransmission consent rules.
Represented a steel fabrication supplier who fabricated and delivered two towers for a new structural steel lift bridge in Massachusetts. Prosecuted and defended claims against the Design Builder of the public project during a three week trial on the Business Litigation Session of the Massachusetts Superior Court.
We represented the U.S. Energy Storage Association before FERC, state PUCs, and ISOs/RTOs to develop and implement rules and regulations in the capacity, energy, and ancillary services markets.
Pierce Atwood is U.S. intellectual property counsel to Electronic Recyclers International, Inc. (ERI), the largest recycler of electronic waste in North America. Headquartered in Fresno, California, ERI services every zip code in the United States with innovative and market leading e-waste solutions. Pierce Atwood advises ERI in connection with patent and trademark strategies and IP portfolio management.
On behalf on an independent day school in Massachusetts, negotiated and prepared vendor contract with a company providing residential housing arrangements for international students.