“THEY’RE TOP PEOPLE WHO ARE VERY STRONG AND KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING.”
Verrill’s real estate lawyers are widely regarded as premier practitioners in the region. Clients turn to Verrill’s Real Estate Group for its broad depth of substantive knowledge, extensive experience, and sterling reputation. In particular, many clients choose our real estate team for its sound business sense and practical approach to completing a transaction. Our real estate attorneys execute skillful due diligence and competitively negotiate agreements, all with the understanding that the ultimate goal for most clients is to minimize risk while successfully completing a business transaction.
Our approach is straightforward, simple, and client-focused. We start each transaction by carefully listening to the client to understand the underlying business objectives. We then balance the risk/reward aspects of various legal strategies and advise the client accordingly. Our measure of success is the efficient completion of a transaction in a manner that achieves our client’s goals. Our record of client satisfaction has resulted in our continued recognition by Chambers and Partners.
Areas of Experience
- Acquisitions, sales and leasing
- Commercial, industrial, and residential development
- Commercial and residential condominiums (conversion of existing buildings and new developments)
- Real estate and municipal financing
- Property tax and corporate structuring
- Easements, title, access, and boundary issues
- Lender/borrower commercial lending, including construction financing
- Subdivisions, zoning, and land use
- Wind power, natural gas, and utilities
- Timberlands and forest products
- Telecommunications
- Hospitality and retail
- Health care
To efficiently and effectively reach our clients’ goals, we take a team approach, working closely with colleagues in relevant practice areas for advice and counsel. Related areas of law include environmental, energy, private clients, business, commercial lending, tax, construction, and hospitality.
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Verrill attorneys were victorious in defending against a special motion to dismiss filed by business competitors in a case with claims for unfair and deceptive business practices and abuse of process. Bristol Asphalt Co., Inc. v. Rochester Bituminous Products, Inc., 493 Mass. 539 (2024). The SJC used the case to clarify and simplify the legal framework that Massachusetts Courts use for evaluating a special motion to dismiss filed under the Anti-SLAPP Statute. The SJC has been focused on...
Verrill represented Diversified Communications in the acquisition of a newly built $2.5 million solar array in Brunswick, Maine. The array, which was developed by ReVision Energy and went online in January 2018, will provide power to more than 100 businesses at Brunswick Landing. Verrill attorneys advised Diversified Communications on a range of issues in the transaction, including federal debt financing, solar investment tax credits, solar renewable energy credits, electric power sales, EPC...
Emera's 2017 acquisition of Swan's Island Electric Cooperative required a multi-disciplined team of Verrill energy lawyers to successfully close the transaction. Because the seller was a member based cooperative, the transaction was structured as an asset purchase, rather than a stock purchase. This required a determination that the Cooperative had marketable title to hundreds of easements, many of which had been acquired by the Cooperative decades earlier. Upon investigation, the parties...
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