EBC Member Spotlight – Pierce Atwood LLP
Announcing the new EBC Member Spotlight! Any EBC Member is welcome to fill out the Google Form for submission by following this link.
Firm Description
Pierce Atwood LLP, a highly-regarded, full-service law firm based in New England, has 160 attorneys serving regional, national, and international clients. Pierce Atwood provides legal and business counsel to regional and local enterprises, energy project developers, utilities, financiers, middle-market companies, entrepreneurs, and individuals, as well as Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, and local, state, and foreign governments.
Pierce Atwood’s environmental attorneys work with municipalities, businesses, individuals, and government regulators to shape, understand, and navigate the developing regulatory landscape.
Firm lawyers address the full range of environmental, land use, natural resource, energy, renewable energy, remediation, and toxic tort issues, as well as the interrelationship of these issues to real estate, local land use, tax, commercial banking, and corporate transactions. Click here to learn more about Pierce Atwood’s Environmental Practice Group.
Firm Highlights
- Pierce Atwood represents landowners, municipalities, and renewable energy project developers in financing, permitting and contracting for projects in New England. The work entails the expertise of environmental, energy, land use, real estate, tax, and corporate attorneys working collaboratively to help states achieve their goals for renewable energy. Click here for more information about Pierce Atwood’s renewable energy capabilities.
- Pierce Atwood recently helped Cronin Holdings secure a waterways license for its 150 Seaport Boulevard project, a 250-foot tall, and 22-story mixed use development in Boston’s Innovation District The project will bring about significant public benefits, including 46 units of deeply subsidized senior housing and long-term funding to provide waterfront and Boston Harbor experiences to disadvantaged children from the City of Boston. Cronin Holdings CEO Jon Cronin said of Pierce Atwood attorney Gareth Orsmond “Gareth treated all of our challenges as if they were his own and provided clear, thoughtful legal counsel and strong advocacy.”
- Pierce Atwood is the only law firm in Maine recognized in “Band 1” for environmental law by Chambers USA 2018. Band 1, the highest ranking available, indicates that the firm has the “technical legal ability, professional conduct, client service, commercial astuteness, diligence, commitment, and other qualities most valued by the client.” Chambers USA has also recognized environmental attorneys in our Massachusetts and New Hampshire locations. Click here to read more about the firm’s Chambers recognitions
Firm Contact
Michelle O’Brien, Partner
617.488.8146 // mobrien@pierceatwood.com