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Preti Flaherty represents saw mills, lumber companies, land management companies and industrial land owners with legal issues that are unique to the forest products and timberlands industry. Our Forest Products attorneys orchestrate complex timberlands transactions and help clients secure state and federal funding. The Group recently assisted a lumber mill in securing grants to develop a highly-efficient biomass-fueled cogeneration plant to cut its electricity costs.
From mill or timberland sales and acquisitions, to energy or permitting issues, to immigration or legislative matters, Preti Flaherty attorneys fully understand the current trends in the natural resources and forest products industry and team up across many practice areas to provide legal counsel in the following areas:
Forest Products and Timberlands Transactions:
• Operating agreements
• Wood supply agreements
• Underwriting timberland titles
Real Estate and Title Insurance:
• Acquisitions (purchase of mills, timberlands and processing facilities)
• Sales
• Title insurer for US and Canadian timberlands
Permitting:
• Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC)
• Permitting of pulp and paper mills and associated hydroelectric, biomass and other energy assets
Environmental:
• Environmental permits
• Air emissions
• Disposal permits
• Site law permits
Energy:
• Management of client energy needs and opportunities, including connecting clients with grants and incentive funding for energy projects.
Immigration:
• Canadian work visas
• H2A/H2B issues
• Immigration applications/appeals
Financing:
• Lending (representing borrowers during acquisitions)
• Bankruptcy (collection matters, contracts/personal property, construction contracts)
Legislative:
• Legislative and agency lobbying
• Campaign management
• Strategic government relations management
Representative Matters
Pleasant River Lumber - Preti Flaherty serves as General Counsel to a number of paper and saw mills, including Pleasant River Lumber Company. At a time when other spruce fir dimensional saw mills were closing, our client was expanding and thriving. When Pleasant River... read more >>
Pleasant River Lumber - Preti Flaherty serves as General Counsel to a number of paper and saw mills, including Pleasant River Lumber Company. At a time when other spruce fir dimensional saw mills were closing, our client was expanding and thriving. When Pleasant River decided to acquire the assets of Cold Stream Lumber, we helped it complete the acquisition in under a month, including environmental due diligence, transferring permits, real estate, machinery and equipment, and all aspects of financing the purchase.
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Mike Lane was solely responsible for all aspects of the real estate, title and zoning matters when Preti Flaherty represented the buyer in the purchase of the former Georgia-Pacific pulp and paper mill in Old Town, Maine. Mike...
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Mike Lane was solely responsible for all aspects of the real estate, title and zoning matters when Preti Flaherty represented the buyer in the purchase of the former Georgia-Pacific pulp and paper mill in Old Town, Maine. Mike handled all aspects of the due diligence, acquisition, and subsequent disposition of three chip mills associated with the Old Town mill located in Milo, Milford and Houlton. The matter involved DEP, LURC and local permit transfers and approvals, along with completion of the DEP VRAP program.
Preti helped a dimensional lumber mill develop a highly-efficient biomass-fueled cogeneration plant, cutting the mill's electricity costs. The mill, which produces 85 million board feet of lumber annually, had previously invested in a wood-waste powered biomass boiler to provide... read more >>
Preti helped a dimensional lumber mill develop a highly-efficient biomass-fueled cogeneration plant, cutting the mill's electricity costs. The mill, which produces 85 million board feet of lumber annually, had previously invested in a wood-waste powered biomass boiler to provide steam for kilns and space heating. The Preti team helped the mill develop a $1.3 million steam turbine generator capable of supplying the mill's electricity needs. We combined a $450,000 grant from Efficiency Maine with other financing support for the project. The new steam turbine generator now saves the mill about $300,000 per year in electricity costs and reduces its carbon dioxide emissions by about 2,000 tons per year, all without increasing its fuel consumption.
Forest Products Law, Timberlands, Mike Lane, Michael Lane, Forest
Forest Products Law