Practice Areas

Land Use Law

• Special permit representation before municipal boards including  zoning board of adjustment, planning board, conservation commission, technical review committee, historic district commission, select board, and city council, etc.

• Special permit preparation including variance, special exception, conditional use, site plan, subdivision, waiver, building, lot line adjustment, appeal of administrative decision, wetlands, road layout, and Class VI road waiver, etc.

• Special permit representation before State boards including the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee

• Zoning ordinance and building code analysis

• Complex infrastructure development and permitting including telecommunications towers, antennas, and switching stations; solar  and wind facilities; electrical transmission structures; oil and gas stations; mining and mineral facilities; water permitting, including dredge and fill; and roadways, etc.

• Special permit appeals and litigation

• Boundary line and property access litigation

• Environmental and regulatory compliance

• Historic site development including permitting for sites on the National Register of Historic Places

• Mixed and planned unit development

• Sustainable development

• Current use analysis

• Abandoned and/or condemned property rehabilitation

Real Estate Law

• Acquisitions and dispositions (real estate purchase and sale agreements)

• Commercial and residential leasing

• Financing

• Conveyancing, including deed, mortgage, and promissory note review and drafting

• Performance mortgages

• Title analysis

• Construction contracts

• Condominium formation and governance

• Access, maintenance, roadway, waterway, and other easement and license agreements

• Conservation easements

• Easement extinguishment

• Timber, water, and mineral resource agreements 

• Corporate and estate restructuring for real estate development  

• Petition to quiet title

• Joint venture agreements

Business Law 

• Commercial contract review, drafting and negotiation

• Business planning, restructuring, and start-up 

• Mergers, Acquisitions, and Asset Purchases

• Corporate records audit

• Risk management

• Entity Formation, including limited liability companies ("LLC"), partnerships, S Corporations, and C Corporations

• Trust formation

Real Estate and Land Use Mediation

• Mediation services focused on resolving real estate, development, and land disputes