Peter H. Kenlan
Peter Kenlan’s commercial real estate practice includes acquisitions, dispositions, development, financing, title and land use analysis, leasing, and title insurance. Drawing on his diverse professional experience, Peter helps clients navigate a broad range of complex real estate transactions.
Peter represents real estate developers, utility and energy companies, resort owners, aquaculture farms, timberlands companies, nonprofits, and individuals in a broad range of transactions including the redevelopment of former paper mill properties, site control for solar power generation, project financing, residential/commercial development, and commercial leasing. Peter also works closely with the firm's Business, Litigation, and Trusts & Estates Practice Groups to support the real estate needs of a variety of firm clients.
Before joining Pierce Atwood, Peter served as law clerk to Chief Justice Leigh I. Saufley of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Prior to beginning his legal career, Peter worked in nonprofit development and fundraising, forestry research, and biology education.
Away from the office, Peter enjoys spending time with his wife and two children who are all avid downhill skiers and spend summers sailing aboard their Sparkman & Stephens-designed sloop Nunaga.
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Included in The Best Lawyers in America® “Ones to Watch” for Real Estate Law (2024-present)
- Maine State Bar Association, Real Estate & Title Section
- Maine’s Open Lands: Public Use of Private Land, the Right to Roam, and the Right to Exclude, 68 Me. L. Rev. 185 (2016)
- Falmouth (Maine) Planning Board (Chair 2020-2024)