Property + Development
For over thirty years, Paul Frank + Collins has helped clients with office, retail, energy and commercial projects of all shapes, sizes, and types – yet our property and development attorneys know how to achieve success in the smallest towns in Vermont and throughout northern New England. We know that every deal is unique, with a complex mix of financial, regulatory and physical issues that clients need us to address efficiently and effectively. Our property law success stems from having fully developed teams of transactional and litigation professionals focused on legal matters involving land. The matter of concern could be financing and obtaining local and Act 250 permits for a local college’s master plan, petitioning the Public Service Board for a large solar farm, or defending an environmental enforcement action by the Attorney General. From the financing and purchase, through environmental permitting and construction, to sales, leasing and ongoing property management, we provide seamless legal service throughout. Our clients include developers, energy firms, telecommunication providers, larger wholesale and retail companies, investors, lenders, landlords, tenants, real estate brokerage firms, construction companies, title insurance companies, property management companies, colleges and universities, condominium and landowner associations, non-profit agencies and government entities. The experience of Paul Frank + Collins in property, development, and construction law has been recognized by national and international peer review rating agencies such as Best Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell, Chambers and Partners Leading Lawyers for Business, and SuperLawyers Corporate Counsel Edition. View our Property + Development team of attorneys.  From the beginning, Paul Frank + Collins has focused on property acquisitions and sales as a core practice area. Our experience covers commercial, retail, industrial, and residential properties, and an array of acquisition and sale strategies from simple agreements to complex transactions involving multiple parcels, joint ventures and equity investment structures, as well as detailed rights of refusal, purchase options, and lease-to-own situations. In each case we will aide you in negotiating a purchase agreement to protect your interests – whether you are a seller, buyer or lender – and then assist you with diligence and title review so you can achieve a successful closing.  Our team has diverse experience in the leasing and subleasing of commercial and office space, retail shops, industrial and warehouse facilities, and residential properties. We have also helped clients achieve success in more unusual settings, such as leases of vineyards, telecommunications towers, marina slips, farm acreage, and quarries, to name a few. We work with landlords, tenants and subtenants to document the best deal for their specific situation, and we work with lenders to protect their interest and to obtain necessary subordination and non-disturbance agreements.  We have recognized expertise in a wide array of secured finance transactions such as mortgages, secured credit lines, bridge loans, and construction loans. We assist borrowers, developers, commercial banks, investment banks, local governments, and other groups and individuals throughout Vermont and across the nation; our goal is to reach agreements that are productive and fair – focusing on the outcome and not the legalese. And because secured lending transactions may require legal experience in multiple practice areas, we work as a team to draw on lawyers tax, bankruptcy, corporate, litigation, and other practice areas to help clients meet their objectives quickly and efficiently.  Our attorneys are experienced in all aspects of real property disputes, from handling contentious permitting applications and appeals at the local, district and state levels, determining a disputed boundary, condemnation actions, litigating construction disputes, or dealing with condemnations, foreclosures, tax appeals, and disagreements over easements and rights of way. Paul, Frank + Collins employs professions dedicated to advancing their clients' interest. Local educational institutions, national retailers and wholesalers, alternative energy providers, developers, or top-echelon telecommunications providers utilize Paul, Frank + Collins to accomplish their goals in the often difficult legal environment of Vermont.  We have significant experience counseling developers, landowners, regulators and others in all phases of the development approval process, including representing clients before state and local planning and zoning agencies throughout Vermont and other parts of New England. We have an extensive practice litigating planning and zoning appeals, including Act 250 matters, before Vermont's Environmental Court and before the Vermont Supreme Court. In addition, we have helped numerous land conservation groups and recreational non-profits to obtain conservation easements, conduct land exchanges, and negotiate access and trail use easements and licenses. We look forward to helping you navigate through the permitting process and helping you achieve your goals while protecting Vermont’s unique character and way of life.  Attorneys at Paul, Frank + Collins have worked on energy facilities across the country – from gas-fired plants in New Jersey and Texas to geothermal facilities in California, to cogeneration plants in Arizona, to small solar farms and wind power facilities across Vermont and northern New England. We can be your partner from initial planning and permitting, through construction and project finance, negotiation of collateral and supply agreements and easements, to permanent financing and interconnection with the grid. We are committed to helping Vermont and the United States improve its energy independence, and hope that we can help you be a part of the growing energy industry.  Paul Frank + Collins has wide experience in the siting of telecommunications facilities and the leasing, subleasing and licensing of tower and antenna sites on both private and public land. We are familiar with the access, safety and competition issues that pervade this field, and can help you quickly resolve site and use issues so that your telecommunications facility can be up and running in an efficient and productive manner. |
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Latest News:
January, 2012 - Seven PF+C Attorneys Selected for Best Lawyers® 2012
December, 2011 - Douglas W. Stahl Joins Paul Frank + Collins as Chief Operating Officer
December, 2011 - PF+C Employees Whoop it up for a Good Cause
November, 2011 - Five PF+C Attorneys Selected for New England Super Lawyers 2011
October, 2011 - S. Crocker Bennett Appointed Vermont State Chair for the American College of Trial Lawyers
September, 2011 - Employment + Labor Lawyer Kerin Stackpole Joins PF+C
September, 2011 - Financial Centres International Publishes Peter McDougall's Captive Insurance Article
August, 2011 - PF+C: Lawyers and Educators at VCIA Conference
July, 2011 - Mark Hall Participates in Environmental Focus Group
July, 2011 - Andrew Beerworth's Article Published in Vermont Law Review
June, 2011 - PF+C Celebrates 30 Years in Captive Insurance
June, 2011 - Vermont Business Owners Look for Advocates in Understanding a New Class of Corporation
May, 2011 - PF+C Sponsors a Performance at the 2011 Discover Jazz Festival
