# Attorneys

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Mr. Schulten is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm following his graduation from Harvard Law School in 1964. Mr. Schulten is primarily engaged in complex civil litigation on behalf of corporations. Mr. Schulten applies more than 30 years of litigation experience assisting companies with environmental and toxic tort litigation, insurance coverage disputes, and other areas of litigation involving multiple plaintiffs and defendants.


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Mr. Leddy is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson. He is also the keystone of the firm's real estate practice group, bringing more than 30 years of experience in Maine's real estate community to bear on real estate and financing matters for businesses and individuals throughout the state. Mr. Leddy assists timber companies, public utilities, commercial rental property owners, corporations, small businesses and individuals in a variety of transactions involving real estate issues. 

Mr. Leddy is a member of the Real Estate and Title Standards Section of the Maine State Bar Association, the Real Property, Probate & Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association, and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. 

Mr. Leddy is also a member of the Board of Directors of Ronald McDonald House in Portland, Maine. 

Mr. Leddy resides in Oxford.


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Mr. Carr brings his more than thirty years of litigation experience and familiarity with Maine's political and business worlds to bear on his integrated practice of administrative law, business transactions, retail and health care, and government relations. Mr. Carr served as lead attorney for construction of the new 240,000 square foot John J. Nissen Bakery in Biddeford Maine, and as the attorney and owner's project representative for the construction of the Portland Public Market. He serves as Maine legal counsel for a large national retailer in the health care and specialty retail fields. 

Outside the office, Mr. Carr is active in many civic and community affairs. He has focused on strengthening Maine's public education system, serving as Director of the Maine Coalition for Excellence in Education, the Maine School Board Association, and the Casco Bay Educational Alliance, in addition to having been elected to two terms on the Yarmouth School Committee. Mr. Carr was appointed in 1998 to the Maine Blue Ribbon Commission To Study The Effects of Government Regulation and Health Care Costs on Small Businesses. He is also a Director and Counsel of the Maine Center for Educational Services, Lightspeed Learning and the Maine Economic Research Institute and Jobspac. 

He is married to Deidre O. Carr, a teacher, writer and musician at Freeport High School. Doug and Deidre continue to live in Yarmouth and are enjoying "empty nester" status as their two daughters are now both nearly out of college. Doug enjoys reading, art, golf, downhill skiing, and travel.


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Since joining Perkins, Thompson in 1973, Mr. Cadot has concentrated in the field of Bankruptcy/Creditors and Debtors Rights. He was certified by the American Bankruptcy Board of Certification as a specialist in Business Bankruptcy Law for 1995-2000. Over the past twenty-nine years, he has represented numerous financial institutions in prosecuting over two thousand real estate foreclosure actions. He has also drafted numerous conservation easements for individuals and non-profit land trusts. Mr. Cadot is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson and a longtime member of its Executive Committee. 

Mr. Cadot is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the Cumberland County Bar Association, and the Maine State Bar Association (serving as Chair of its Bankruptcy and Reorganization Section in 1986-87). He has been listed in the Maine Bankruptcy Law section of The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White) since 1989.


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A 1975 graduate of the Harvard Law School, Mr. Hunt is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm on a full-time basis in 1980 following the completion of his military service with the United States Air Force. Mr. Hunt's principal areas of practice fall in the areas of estate planning and probate administration, elder law, federal and state tax law, and business transactions planning for small businesses, including sales and purchases of businesses and commercial properties. Mr. Hunt is a member of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel and is the author of Maine Probate Laws and co-author of Maine Probate Procedures, two treatises on probate law and estate administration currently published by Michie Legal Publishers. Mr. Hunt serves as Chairman of the Planning Board of the Town of Cumberland and is active in many community and charitable organizations.


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A member of both the Maine and New Hampshire bars, John is the senior lawyer in the firm's business department. He advises both small and large businesses in all facets of their operations. John has extensive experience in the sale and purchase of businesses, bank financing, venture capital transactions, negotiation of contracts, and general business advice. He chairs the firm's Business Transactions, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Forest Products, and Healthcare practice groups. Mr. Upton is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. 

John has received an "A" rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and is a past member of the Maine Bar Association's Board of Governors. 

John has served as Vice President and trustee of the Portland Museum of Art, and is a member of the museum Board of Fellows. Nordic skiing is a particular passion; John is President of the New England Nordic Ski Association and is a coach of the Cape Elizabeth High School Nordic Ski Team. 

John is married to Anne Stockmar Upton and lives in Cape Elizabeth with their children, Cecily and Ted.


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Ms. McGehee handles environmental permitting for energy, subdivision and sewage disposal projects, litigates boundary and easement disputes, and negotiates real estate contracts. Her clients include energy companies, utility and manufacturing companies, citizen associations, developers, individual applicants, hotels and motels, and educational institutions. Ms. McGehee is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm in 1981. 

In addition to Maine Civil Remedies, Ms. McGehee has developed and updated a range of state and municipal forms for the benefit of other practitioners. Ms. McGehee is a member of the Cumberland County and Maine State Bar Associations.


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Ms. Murphy has concentrated her practice on real estate development and financing issues, and legal questions peculiar to the development of condominium, timehsare and affordable and other specialized housing. Ms. Murphy has been involved in a number of major real estate development projects, including a large condominium/timeshare project at a Maine ski area undertaken by an international hotel chain. Ms. Murphy has presented numerous seminars on condominium, affordable housing and other real estate issues. She recently has expanded her practice into the estate planning area, with an emphasis on planning around family real estate holdings. Ms. Murphy is a director/shareholder of Perkins Thompson, and she has received an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell. 

Ms. Murphy is a past member of the Town of Scarborough Open Space Committee, and Secretary of the League of Women Voters of Maine Education Fund.


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Mr. Rich practices in the area of litigation and is the Chair of Perkins Thompson's litigation department. Mr. Rich's litigation experience includes commercial litigation, products liability actions, antitrust actions, the defense of class actions, intellectual property actions, and employment issues. 

Mr. Rich also provides counsel to businesses regarding all aspects of employment law. He is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson. 

Mr. Rich is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Cumberland County and Maine and New Hampshire State Bar Associations. Mr. Rich is a member of the Maine State Bar Association sections on federal practice, employment law, including immigration law, and intellectual property. 

Mr. Rich is a former President of the Cumberland Bar Association as well as the former Chair of the Productivity Task Force of the Commission to study the future of Maine's courts, and the Futures Implementation Committee of the Maine Judicial Council. Presently, he is a member of the Advisory Committee on the Future of Maine Courts, the Maine Bar Foundation Board of Directors, and the Board of Overseers of the Bar Grievance Commission. He is a past Chair of the Board of Overseers of the Bar Fee Arbitration Commission, past Chair of the Cumberland County Fee Arbitration Panel, and past President of the Nathan and Henry B. Cleaves Law Library, Portland, Maine. 

Mr. Rich grew up in Berlin, France and Japan until returning to the U.S. for college. He speaks French.


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Mr. Ciraldo is primarily engaged in trials and appeals in federal court, where in addition to commercial and environmental litigation, he represents persons and business entities accused of criminal violations. Mr. Ciraldo has conducted trials in various federal and state courts around the country and has handled numerous appeals in the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. He is also General Counsel of the firm. 

Mr. Ciraldo is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Maine Rules of Evidence, and is Co-Chairman of the Advisory Committee for Criminal Jury Instructions for the First Circuit Court of Appeals and co-author of the Pattern Jury Instructions for the First Circuit Court of Appeals.


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Mr. Hobson's cross-disciplinary practice includes both commercial litigation and personal injury litigation. He has extensive trial experience representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Hobson also writes, lectures, and practices extensively in the area of construction law. He is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson. 

Mr. Hobson is the President and a member of the Board of Governors of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association. He is also a member of both the American Board of Trial Advocates and The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. 

Mr. Hobson is a former member of the Falmouth Town Council.


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Mr. Benoit provides legal services to assist individuals and entities create and maintain successful for-profit and not-for-profit business enterprises. He has been involved in several major merger and acquisition transactions as counsel to either the acquiring or the acquired entity. In addition, Mr. Benoit provides estate planning to individuals and integrates his business practice with his estate planning practice to assist clients develop an orderly succession plan for their businesses. Mr. Benoit is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson and a member of the firm's Executive Committee.


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Mr. Scannell joined Perkins Thompson as a shareholder/director in January, 2001 with more than 15 years of Maine legal experience in a wide range of real estate matters from the perspective of lenders, borrowers, businesses and municipalities. 

Mr. Scannell lives in North Yarmouth with his wife, school-age son and daughter and various pets. He is an active runner, cross-country skier and sailor, and has participated in more than 25 running marathons, including 10 times as an official entrant in the Boston Marathon, and has competed in cross-country ski events across New England and Quebec. Mr. Scannell is a member of the North Yarmouth Planning Board, and is on the Board of Directors of the North Yarmouth Land Trust and the Maine Real Estate and Development Association. He and his family travel frequently to the family home in Prince Edward Island, Canada.


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Mr. Bopp's practice focuses on bankruptcy and creditors' and debtors' rights. Mr. Bopp's experience also includes collections, evictions, and repossessions, as well as the full spectrum of civil litigation. Mr. Bopp is a shareholder and director of PTHK. 

In addition to his advocacy work, Mr. Bopp is a Consumer-Related Dispute neutral on the American Arbitration Association's Commercial Panel. 

Mr. Bopp is a member of the Cumberland County, Maine, New Hampshire, and American Bar Associations. Mr. Bopp is a member of the Maine State Bar Association's Bankruptcy & Reorganization Section, and a member of the American Bar Association Section of Business Law. Mr. Bopp is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Mr. Bopp is a member of the Dartmouth Lawyers Association, and a former President of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Maine.


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Mr. Snow's primary practice focuses on the law of commercial transactions and financial institutions, with an emphasis on financial institutions and borrowers in commercial loan transactions, advising financial institutions and businesses on consumer credit regulatory matters, and representing business clients in both transactional and regulatory matters. Mr. Snow has also represented utilities regarding regulatory compliance, project financing, and other matters. Mr. Snow is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm in 1991. 

Mr. Snow's interests include maritime historical research and writing, and boat building. He is a member of the Maine State Bar Association, Consumer and Financial Institution Law section, and the Cumberland County Bar Association.


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Mr. Sheils is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm in 1992 following a clerkship with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. His practice includes advising corporations, financial institutions, educational institutions, and individuals on business and employment matters. Mr. Sheils has appeared before state and federal courts and administrative agencies and regularly advises on wage and hour laws, employment contracts, terminations, discrimination and harassment, OSHA, and labor and employment matters in mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Sheils also advises the firm's clients on general business and contract matters.

Mr. Sheils is a member of the Maine State Bar Association and the Cumberland County Bar Association, in which he formerly served as second Vice President and as a member of the General Committee.


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Mr. McConnell is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. McConnell was an acquisitions editor for a multinational scholarly publisher, where he acquired doctoral-level monographs and journals in the academic disciplines of business and economics. 

At the University of Virginia School of Law, Mr. McConnell was awarded the Dana H. Rowe Memorial Scholarship. He was Articles Development Editor of the Virginia Environmental Law Journal in 1994-1995. 

Mr. McConnell practices in the area of litigation, where his emphasis is on the cost-effective resolution of disputes. In addition to his work as an advocate, Mr. McConnell serves as a mediator, arbitrator, and early neutral evaluator. Mr. McConnell also works in administrative law, working with state and local government agencies on behalf of his clients. 

Mr. McConnell is active in the Maine State Bar Association and is a former Chair of the Young Lawyers Section. He is Chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals for the Town of Falmouth. Mr. McConnell serves on the Board of Directors for the Nathan and Henry B. Cleaves Law Library. He is also a member of the American Bar Association, the Cumberland County Bar Association and the Maine Trial Lawyers Association.


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Mr. Pietropaoli is a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson. His practice centers on commercial and residential real estate transactions, land use, commercial lending, and general business law. He is a member of the Maine State Bar Association and the Cumberland County Bar Association. He has also served as an instructor for the Maine chapter of the American Institute of Banking.


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Mr. Julien's wide-ranging practice incorporates the law of intellectual property, business transactions, immigration, and media and communications law with a general litigation and administrative law practice. Mr. Julien assists authors, software companies, web-based businesses, biotech companies and others with all aspects of their businesses. Mr. Julien negotiates and documents a wide range of complex business transactions, including stock and asset sales, commercial sales agreements, and intellectual property licenses. Mr. Julien helps clients with all phases of trademark law, including protection and registration of marks, advertising issues, and trademark litigation. Mr. Julien also assists clients with various legislative and regulatory matters. Mr. Julien, a shareholder/director of Perkins Thompson, is the immediate former Chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Maine State Bar Association. 

In addition, Mr. Julien has extensive knowledge of the law of eminent domain, with experience both in taking property and in defending against the taking of property. 

Before attending law school, Mr. Julien wrote screenplays, and is presently a member of the Writer's Guild of America. Mr. Julien is a member of the Town of Falmouth Board of Zoning Appeals.


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Mr. Poitras is an associate attorney at Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm in 1998, and is a member of the Maine State Bar Association, the Cumberland County Bar Association, and the Hartford (Connecticut) County Bar Association. He is author of "Stone Slabs and Iron Men: The History of the Granite Industry of Deer Isle, Maine" (Deer Isle Granite Museum, 1997). Mr. Poitras is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ronald McDonald House of Portland, Maine.


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Mr. Creswell is an associate attorney at Perkins, Thompson, having joined the firm in 2000 after serving in a series of clerkships for The Honorable Gene Carter and The Honorable David M. Cohen of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. Following his graduation from Quinnipiac College School of Law, J.D., cum laude, where he served as Associate Editor of the Quinnipiac Law Review in 1996-1997, Mr. Creswell served as law clerk to the Connecticut Superior Court. Mr. Creswell is admitted to the bars of Connecticut and Maine, and he practices in the areas of bankruptcy/debtors' and creditors' rights, litigation/alternative dispute resolution, appellate practice, and maritime law. He presently serves as a director of the Cumberland Bar Association, and he is also a member of the both the American and Maine Bar Associations. Prior to moving to Portland, Mr. Creswell was a resident of the Town of Falmouth, and served on the Town of Falmouth Planning Board.


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Ms. Buckley is an associate attorney at Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm in 2002.


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Owen W. Wells was born in Kittery, Maine in 1943. He attended the University of Maine, graduating in 1965 and subsequently graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1968. He served as a Captain in the United States Army in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star with Oak Leaf Cluster. 

 From 1972 to 1997, Mr. Wells was a partner, director and shareholder of Perkins Thompson. He is presently Of Counsel to the firm. He is admitted to the Bars of the State of Maine, United States District Court and United States Supreme Court and is a charter Fellow of the Maine Bar Foundation. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. 

 Mr. Wells formerly served as President of the Cumberland Bar Association, President of the Portland Museum of Art and Chairman of the President's Advisory Council of the University of Maine, President of the Board of Overseers of Berwick Academy, and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations. From 1990 to 1995 he served as a Trustee of the University of Maine System. He has also served as a Trustee of Maine Public Broadcasting. 

 He is a Trustee and Chairman of the Board of the Maine Medical Center, a Trustee of MaineHealth, and Trustee of the Libra Foundation. Mr. Wells serves as a Director of Irving Oil Corporation as well as an Overseer of Colby College.


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Ms. Ray was previously Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for American Skiing Company, where she was involved in the initial public offering of stock in the company and in its acquisition of ski resorts in Utah, Colorado, California, and Nevada. She also represented the American Skiing Company's real estate division in its development of several interval and whole ownership condominium projects in both its eastern and western resorts. Prior to working with American Skiing Company, Ms. Ray was in private practice in Portland. Her current practice focuses on real estate development and financing, and business transactions.


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Ms. Harmon is an associate attorney at Perkins Thompson, having joined the firm in 2004 after serving a clerkship with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.


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Since its founding in 1871, Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley, and Keddy has emphasized business-oriented counseling, professionalism and integrity. The firm represents major banking, utilities, manufacturing, petroleum and gas refining and distribution, forest products, health care, and retail and wholesale distribution businesses, in addition to small start-up companies and local businesses and individuals.

The firm dedicates itself to producing timely, quality legal services efficiently. The firm's moderate size assures personal attention to clients' needs by experienced, knowledgeable practitioners, and permits careful control of the quality of services, in addition to avoiding dissipating client resources through over-lawyering. The firm regularly discusses budgets for legal services with existing and potential clients and provides estimates of probable charges for specific projects.

Legal issues and legal problems no longer stop at the border. As clients increasingly operate in multiple states, the firm now actively provides legal counsel and litigation services to its clients on matters of New Hampshire law and on legal issues in other New England states. In addition to Maine, Perkins Thompson attorneys are registered to practice in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.


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P.O. Box 426
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Augusta, ME 04330
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Directions to Portland office from the south:
Coming north on the Maine Turnpike, take I-295 north towards Portland. Take Exit 6A off of the Turnpike to Portland downtown. Proceed through the toll plaza and stay on 295, heading towards the City. Several miles after passing through the toll plaza take Exit 7, which is Route 1A, the Franklin Arterial. 

Take a right off the exit ramp and up the hill into Portland. Proceed to the top of the hill and start down the other side. You will pass through several sets of lights before taking a right onto Fore Street. Fore Street is a cross street on the down-slope of the hill, just before Commercial Street, which runs along the waterfront. 

On Fore Street, you will pass through a traffic light and then park in the first parking garage on your right (you can get a free parking stamp at our office, or at any one of a number of restaurants in the Old Port) after the traffic light. The parking garage is located on Fore Street between Exchange and Union Streets. 

After parking in the garage, walk out the back entrance (you will have driven in through the front entrance) into the Key Bank Building (One Canal Plaza), which is the large office building on your left closest to the garage. 

After entering the building, proceed to the end of the corridor and turn right at the end of the corridor to find a bank of elevators. Our office is located on the ninth floor. Call if you get lost or if you have any other questions in the meantime. 

Directions to Portland office from the north:
Coming south on I-295, take Exit 7, the "Franklin Arterial" exit, and follow the exit road up the hill into Portland. Proceed from there as described above.


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The materials in this web site have been prepared by Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Keddy, P.A. (PTHK) for informational purposes only, so that the reader can learn more about the attorneys and practice of PTHK. The transmission and receipt of the information in this web site does not create an attorney-client relationship. You should not rely upon the transmission of an e-mail message to PTHK or its attorneys through this web site to create an attorney-client relationship. Nothing in this web site is intended as legal advice, and you should not rely on any information in this web site as legal advice. 

PTHK does not guarantee that the materials in this web or any materials to which these materials are linked, are correct or up-to-date. This web site contain links to other web sites which are not maintained by PTHK. These links are provided for your convenience, and the inclusion of these links does not imply any association between PTHK and the entity responsible for the linked site. The linked sites are not under the control of PTHK, and PTHK is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a linked site. 

PTHK will decline representation of anyone desiring representation based upon their viewing this web site in a state where the web site fails to comply with the laws and ethical rules of that state. 

PTHK's offices are located in scenic Portland, Maine. Aaron D. Julien is the lawyer in charge of this web site. Mr. Julien can be reached at ajulien@pthklaw.com.


# Areas

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The firm's Antitrust Practice Group has significant experience litigating federal and state antitrust claims. The Group's recent cases have involved predatory pricing, illegal tying, price discrimination, monopolization, attempted monopolization, conspiracy to monopolize and various other trade restraints. 

The Group has also provided its clients with counseling in a variety of complex antitrust issues, including horizontal and vertical mergers, Noerr and Parker immunity, federal and state antitrust agencies' market concentration measurement utilizing, inter alia, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, and questions pertaining to trade group pricing practices. The Antitrust Practice Group delivers superior litigation and counseling services for the full range of state and federal antitrust law issues.


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Perkins Thompson serves the legal needs of a wide variety of Maine-based, regional, national, and international commercial banks, thrift institutions, credit unions, mortgage companies, financial institution service companies, and financial institution holding companies. The lawyers serving the financial services industry bring to bear varied expertise to best respond to the particular needs of the client in any legal matter. 

The services offered by Perkins Thompson span the needs of the financial services community from the day-to-day activities of consumer, mortgage, and commercial lending transactions and state and federal regulatory compliance questions to more complex and sophisticated issues confronting financial institutions, such as the formation of the institution, conversions, holding company formations, service corporation formation, mergers and acquisitions. The  Banking/Financial Services Practice Group regularly provides advice to its financial institution clients on general corporate issues, workouts, foreclosures, creditors' rights, taxation questions, employment and employee benefits matters, real estate 
questions, general and specialized litigation matters, and regulatory developments affecting clients' businesses.


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Perkins Thompson represents both  commercial and consumer creditors, and debtors outside (e.g. workouts and litigation) and inside bankruptcy cases, in everything from simple foreclosures to major corporate reorganizations. 

The firm's primary clients in this area include a number of lending and financial institutions, trustees in bankruptcy proceedings and individuals and corporations in need of bankruptcy-related services. In the recent past, the attorneys in the Bankruptcy Practice Group successfully reorganized a local manufacturing company under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code and represented major secured lenders and the bankruptcy 
trustees in large cases.


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Since the firm's humble beginnings more than 125 years ago, Perkins Thompson has prided itself as a firm committed to timely and excellent service to its business clients. The lawyers in the firm's Business Transactions Practice Group know the business of their clients and work closely with owners, executives and managers to assure that the legal needs of both large and small businesses are fully served. Whether the engagement involves drafting a contract, responding by telephone to an urgent business need or planning for the transition of a family business to the next generation, lawyers in the firm's Business Transactions Practice Group have the breadth of experience to get the job done. The firm's business lawyers regularly counsel business clients on tax planning, protection of intellectual property, environmental compliance, government regulation, leasing, sales transactions, contracts and employee relations. The firm's Business Transactions Practice Group is pleased to present free workshops for clients on topics of relevance to their business.


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Perkins Thompson serves as counsel to both lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of regional, national and international commercial loan transactions, from commercial mortgages to asset-based loans, 
floor-planning, conduits and derivative financing. Services for lenders include loan structure analysis, commitment and loan documentation, property title analysis, lien perfection and loan closings. Services for 
borrowers include analysis of finance options, commitment and loan document negotiation, opinion letters and asset acquisition services.


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Perkins Thompson's Condominium/Timeshare Practice Group has extensive experience in representing developers and lenders in all matters relating to the acquisition, development, permitting, construction, financing and sale of all types of  condominiums and timeshare developments, including residential, resort, commercial and mixed use projects. 

Examples of specific matters handled by the firm include: documentation of numerous residential condominiums, including high-rise "second home" projects as well as townhouse-style primary homes; creation of and ongoing representation regarding condominium or timeshare interests at two different major ski areas; creation of and ongoing representation regarding two timeshare resorts in the Republic of Ireland; preparing documents for a mixed-used residential condominium project with a 
"dockominium" component; reorganization of a campground into undivided interests in land with a homeowners association; providing legal assistance and documentation for the expansion of a partially-government-funded condominium providing housing for the elderly; and the creation of a number of planned unit developments.


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The Construction Law Practice Group is active in all phases of construction law from contract negotiation to claims resolution and 
litigation. The Group handles complex construction litigation on behalf of general contractors and owners, as well as design professionals and subcontractors. The members of the Practice Group regularly provide seminars to others in the construction field on developments in the area of construction law. John Hobson, the Group's chairman, has written the State of Maine Chapter for the American Bar Association publication entitled "State and Local Public Construction Contracting Sourcebook". In addition, Mr. Hobson is president of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association and a member of the Board of Governors of the Maine Trial Lawyers 
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One of the greatest impediments to the success of any business is the availability of adequate capital. Traditional lending and non-recourse financing, venture capital, patient capital, enlightened capitalism, and structured finance are all buzz words of the late 1990's and the new millenium. Perkins Thompson lawyers in the Corporate Finance Group have worked with all aspects of these methods of corporate finance, from negotiation of letters of intent, to wiring the funds. Our lawyers understand how to help firm clients realize their business objectives. The firm's work with corporations, financial institutions and investors gives it an understanding of all sides of the transaction. This knowledge helps our clients eliminate unnecessary and confrontational positions and close efficiently, cost effectively and without jeopardizing the deal. Perkins Thompson also has a long history of working effectively and efficiently with national counsel in public securities offerings and local law matters.


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Perkins Thompson's experience in the area of criminal law runs the gamut from the defense of white collar criminal prosecutions to providing advice to corporate clients in connection with grand jury subpoenas on internal investigations. 

Attorneys at Perkins Thompson have extensive experience practicing in the federal courts in a number of criminal law areas including white collar, healthcare fraud, government contracts, environmental and securities. Perkins Thompson's Criminal Law Practice Group regularly appears in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine and has handled numerous appeals in various Circuit Courts of Appeals, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. John A. Ciraldo, a member of the Practice Group, served as co-chairman of the Committee that authored the Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions for the First Circuit (West 1998), and has spoken extensively on federal criminal defense, as well as on sentencing guidelines issues.


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Perkins Thompson represents a number of businesses engaged in the sale and distribution of products in multiple states. The firm has substantial experience with the legal and practical issues involved, including the negotiation of wholesaler agreements and the use of independent contractors for route sales development. The lawyers involved in this practice area have particular skills and experience in the law of sales, contract, tax, warranties and product liability. 

The firm also represents a number of large dealerships, some of which are exclusive regional dealers for national and international heavy equipment manufacturers. The lawyers that work with these clients also have substantial experience with the  financing of dealerships, including the use of the dealer capital enhancement programs of certain manufacturers.


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Educational institutions face a host of regulatory, administrative, and institutional issues that are unique to the academic setting. The lawyers at Perkins Thompson have extensive experience in representing secondary and post-secondary educational institutions. A number of our attorneys have served as directors and trustees of colleges, universities, private schools and academies, and other nonprofit organizations. As a result of these professional associations and our longstanding representation of academic institutions, the firm has considerable knowledge and experience with the specialized issues facing schools, colleges, and universities. The lawyers in the Education Practice Group have been longtime members of the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA). 

The Education Practice Group takes a cross-disciplinary approach in rendering services. Clients have the benefit of our lawyers in the 
employment, business, tax, real estate, land use, and litigation practice groups, among others. The Group regularly provides counseling on such matters as: compliance with federal regulations governing student records, financial aid, campus security, sexual harassment, and disabilities; academic affairs, institutional policies, and faculty issues; student affairs, including discipline and dismissal proceedings; state and federal taxation issues; planned giving and other development issues; contract issues; liability and insurance matters; facilities planning, real estate, land use, zoning, and related regulatory compliance matters; bond financing and other financial transactions; mergers and other institutional reorganizations; labor, employment, and discrimination issues affecting faculty, administrators, and staff. 

Perkins Thompson's Education Practice Group is uniquely positioned to provide the full range of legal services in all matters facing educational institutions as businesses, employers, educators, and landowners.


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Employee benefits have always been an important means for Perkins Thompson's clients to attract and retain qualified employees. The firm recognizes this by dedicating certain lawyers to the Employee Benefits/ERISA Practice Group. These lawyers have substantial knowledge and experience with the employee benefits provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). These lawyers work closely with other lawyers in the firm's Employment/Labor Practice Group to provide clients with a full service approach to the employer/employee relationship. Some particular services of the firm's employee benefit lawyers include design and implementation of benefit programs, such as 401(k) plans and health and welfare plans. The firm also works closely on employee benefit issues with outside consultants such as accountants and third party administrators. Our employee benefit lawyers also work closely with lawyers in our Merger and Acquisition Practice Group to address and resolve benefit issues that typically arise in an acquisition, including controlled group issues. The firm's Employee Benefit Practice Group also has substantial experience with withdrawal liability claims of multiemployer pension plans.


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The Employment/Labor Practice Group consists of attorneys who combine expertise from the litigation, business, and tax aspects of the firm's practice. The practice includes the litigation of claims involving discrimination, wrongful discharge, wage and hour, employee privacy, and immigration issues. In this area of increasing regulatory complexity, the Employment/Labor Practice Group also takes a preventive approach with its clients, including training and compliance counseling to help prevent employment issues from becoming legal problems. Lawyers in the Employment/Labor Practice Group advise and represent financial institutions, educational institutions, utilities, major chain retail businesses, manufacturing corporations, health care associations, forest products businesses, and other private sector employers on all aspects of employment law including compliance with state and federal anti-discrimination laws, wage and hour laws, FMLA, ADA, OSHA, OWBPA, immigration, affirmative action, substance abuse testing, intellectual property and trade secrets, recruitment, discipline and termination issues, and related litigation and administrative proceedings. The Employment/Labor Practice Group drafts and reviews personnel policies and procedures, affirmative action plans, trains managerial personnel in employment law issues, conducts employment law audits, and prepares employment contracts, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, and employment separation agreements. An additional aspect of the firm's employment practice, handled by experienced tax attorneys, is the preparation of and advice on pensions and welfare benefit plans, executive compensation plans, stock options, and profit-sharing plans. Lawyers in the Employment/Labor Practice Group represent the firm's clients in all state and federal courts and administrative agencies.


Description:
The restructuring of energy markets, and the enormous changes in energy infrastructure and ownership in New England, is compelling clients to seek legal representation across a broad spectrum of matters. Perkins Thompson's Energy/Utilities Practice Group has the ability to assist clients in all phases of business transactions, regulatory proceedings and legislative initiatives relating to energy and utility initiatives. The firm has a long history of representing natural gas interests in both interstate and local distribution, as well as providing assistance to a variety of energy-related interests including electric utilities, oil producers and brokers, regulated investor-owned utilities, nuclear power non-utility generators, and large industrial customers. In addition to contract negotiation, litigation, legislative lobbying, administrative and regulatory representation before state and federal agencies including the Maine Public Utilities Commission, the firm has taken a lead role in major infrastructure projects including the permitting, siting and operation of interstate natural gas pipeline projects and electric transmission lines, the siting of an oil terminal facility, and the sale, development and financing of several major hydroelectric generation facilities. Perkins Thompson's multi-disciplinary approach provides the firm's energy-related clients with effective representation in the current market and excellent strategizing for the future.


Description:
Perkins Thompson has extensive experience in many aspects of environmental law practice that brings together the knowledge, sophistication, and ingenuity needed to respond to clients' needs in this fast-moving area of the law. The mainstay of the firm's practice is counseling all sizes of businesses, utilities, landowners and financial institutions, with appropriate resource commitment, on how to comply with federal and state environmental regulation and the appropriate means of protecting against environmental liability. Attorneys in the Environmental Practice Group have an excellent working knowledge and relationship with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and other state and federal agencies in such matters as the reporting of unlawful discharges, negotiation of clean-up response plans, Superfund site liability, waste discharge licensure, wetland permitting, river dredging, waste transporter licensure, land use developments, well contamination arbitration proceedings, land fill closures and coastal and wetland mandates. In conjunction with the Energy/Utilities Practice Group, the firm has been involved in the permitting, siting and operation of interstate natural gas pipeline project and electric transmission lines, and the sale, development and financing of several major hydro electric generation facilities. 

Where compromise is not possible, the Group's attorneys do not hesitate to apply their environmental litigation experience to resolve disputes. Recent matters handled by the firm include representation of a major oil company in a state enforcement action, multiple related civil suits involving groundwater pollution arising from leaking gasoline storage tanks, and actions involving Superfund site liability, and state solid waste regulation.


Description:
The Estate Planning Practice Group at Perkins, Thompson, Hinckley & Keddy provides clients with estate planning and administration services, including drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney, healthcare directives, and charitable gift instruments as well as providing estate and gift tax, family wealth and business succession planning. In addition, the Group handles probate and administration proceedings in Probate Courts, including will contests, and court proceedings concerning the construction and interpretation of wills and trusts. Estate and trust administration services provided by the Group include estate and trust accounting, representation of personal representatives and trustees, assisting creditors in handling claims against estates, advising and assisting personal representatives and trustees with respect to estate and gift taxes and estate and trust income taxes, and final settlement, distribution and closing of estates. 

The skills of other practice groups, such as the Real Estate Practice Group and the Business Practice Group, are used by and integrated with the Estate Planning Practice Group to assist clients in developing an orderly succession plan for family businesses, family real estate holdings and other family wealth, including the use of family limited partnerships, trusts and family foundations.

A wide variety of clients are represented, ranging from the elderly widow with fixed assets to the young couple just starting a family to the multimillion dollar estate of a business owner. In addition to assisting individuals, the Group advises public charities and private foundations from creation through ongoing operations.


Description:
Creative compensation packages are necessary to attract and retain quality managers and executives for private and public companies. Plans and programs that can be a part of executive compensation packages include: tax qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans and agreements; incentive stock option plans; non-qualified stock option plans; phantom stock or phantom equity programs; stock appreciation rights; and stock purchase plans. The employer's funding methods for these plans and programs requires careful planning and knowledge of the employer's objectives and capabilities. Funding can be with cash, equity or through insurance. It can be deductible or non-deductible. It can be current or deferred and it can be secured or unsecured. The many variables allow for great flexibility in designing an executive compensation program that works for a particular employer. 

Lawyers at the firm have the experience and knowledge necessary to help employers design and implement effective executive compensation programs. The lawyers in the Executive Compensation Practice Group have extensive knowledge of the tax, accounting and ERISA rules which govern any executive compensation program. They also have experience working with a large variety of clients on these programs. This combination of in-depth knowledge and extensive experience contributes to the implementation of a successful executive compensation program.


Description:
Maine's most valuable natural resource is its vast timberlands. From majestic pine stands of southern Maine to the dense spruce forests of Piscataquis County, Perkins Thompson's forest products lawyers have a long history of assisting clients in all aspects of the forest products industry. The following are a few of the undertakings of the firm in the last year in the forest products area:  

Acquisition of large timberland tracts for private and institutional investors;   

Drafting mill supply, wood procurement, forest management services, and take or pay contracts;   

Finance of numerous logging, mill and forestry operations;   

Formation of a limited liability company to facilitate cross-border   transactions with Canadian business concerns.


Description:
Perkins Thompson has a lengthy history of government affairs practice before the executive and legislative branches of state government. Many lawyers within the firm have appeared on behalf of clients in meetings with representatives from the Governor's Office and leadership in the Legislature to discuss possible new business initiatives or discreet issues concerning our clients' interactions with state government. On numerous occasions, attorneys in the Government Relations Practice Group have drafted and introduced legislation to address specific concerns, to clarify or revise existing legislation, or to address a perceived need to adopt new legislation. The Group actively tracks proposed legislation impacting such diverse areas as health-related issues, tobacco and alcoholic beverage sales, taxation, workers' compensation and unemployment compensation laws. 

Members of the Government Relations Practice Group frequently appear on behalf of clients before state regulatory boards on licensing matters, regulatory complaints or when a particular board is involved in rulemaking or statutory recodification. Several of the firm's lawyers are registered lobbyists and regularly appear before state legislative committees to testify on behalf of clients at public hearings on pending legislation or to monitor legislation. The Practice Group's attorneys also assist in drafting or revising legislation and assist on specific legislation during work sessions for such legislative committees as Banking and Insurance, Utilities and Energy, Health and Human Services, Business and Economic Development, Taxation, State and Local Government, Legal and Veterans Affairs, Judiciary, and Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. 

Members of Government Relations Practice Group have been appointed to state commissions, regulatory boards, blue ribbon task forces and other executive or legislative-appointed bodies to study matters of interest to firm clients.


Description:
It is an understatement to say that the legal environment for healthcare is dynamic and complex. New laws and rules that affect healthcare appear daily and come from a variety of sources, including Congress, state legislatures, federal agencies such as the Health Care Financing Administration and the Office of the Inspector General, and state agencies, particularly agencies which regulate insurance. Not only are healthcare laws and rules dynamic, the relationships among physicians, pharmacists, patients, hospitals, Pharmacy Benefits Managers ("PBMs"), Health Management Organizations ("HMOs"), and insurers are constantly evolving. The solo physician or pharmacist, and small physician groups and pharmacies, are becoming increasingly rare. The relationships among physicians in large roups is becoming more complex. The relationships between physician groups, pharmacies, hospitals and third party payers not only affect those parties, but also affect patients and taxpayers. 

Lawyers in the firm's Healthcare Practice Group come from a variety of legal subspecialties, such as insurance regulation, lobbying, government relations, corporate law, employer/employee relations, tax, ERISA, finance and administrative law. The firm's healthcare clients include individual physicians, physician groups, pharmacists and pharmacies, PBMs and managed care providers, nursing home and assisted living providers, and residency programs. The focus of the Healthcare Practice Group is on the client's particular legal needs within the context of the larger healthcare legal environment. It is the Healthcare Group's awareness of that larger environment that helps the firm's Healthcare clients to be successful in that environment.


Description:
Lawyers in Perkins Thompson's Immigration Practice Group have practiced immigration law and have been members of the American Immigration Lawyers Association for many years. The Group's practice has been concentrated in the business and litigation substantive areas, although the firm also has experience in asylum, deportation/removal, employer sanctions, family, and naturalization issues. Specifically, the Immigration Practice Group's members have substantial experience assisting clients with issues pertaining to, among others, H-1B workers in specialty occupations, L Intracompany Transferees, and E Treaty Aliens nonimmigrant categories. Members of the Practice Group have also provided extensive service in employment-based and family-sponsored immigration. Attorneys also engage in administrative review proceedings before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Executive Office for Immigration Review.


Description:
The attorneys in the firm's Information Technology Practice Group are closely aligned with those in its Intellectual Property Group. Perkins Thompson recognizes that the high tech field offers both established firms and emerging entrepreneurs with unmatched business opportunities. The firm's clients are active in areas involving integrated chip design processes, software development, e-commerce, licensing and marketing, source code protection, medical device manufacturing and electronics. The firm's extensive retail and banking clients present an ever-changing array of issues involving point of sale equipment, automated teller contracting, protection of innovations, and legislative matters. 

Perkins Thompson recognizes that today's technological advances put businesses in a larger geographic, even global, market. The Canadian province of New Brunswick, for example, has invested significant resources to establish a world-class fiber optic network allowing information technology and related businesses there to flourish. The firm has taken an active role in assisting several of those entities with their U.S. operations, recognizing that clients entering Maine and New England must increasingly come from a broad geographical background.


Description:
The firm's Insurance Practice Group concentrates on four areas of law. It represents carriers in the analysis of contracts of insurance and coverage litigation. It counsels insured persons on the scope of the rights and protection afforded by their policies of insurance. It represents and advises self-insured corporations with respect to liabilities as to which the client chooses to act as a self-indemnitor. It represents clients in matters within the regulatory jurisdiction of the Bureau of Insurance.


Description:
The Intellectual Property Group at Perkins Thompson is committed to a team approach. Attorneys in the Group handle primary responsibility for issues such as federal and state trademark registrations, transfers of intellectual property in connection with transactions, preparation of licensing agreements, e-commerce issues, and business matters involving noncompetition, nondisclosure and trade secrets. The Group's attorneys work closely with attorneys in our Litigation Practice Group to address intellectual property enforcement actions, trademark and copyright infringement matters, and noncompetition disputes. Perkins Thompson has several reported cases in these fields. With the ever-changing role of technology, our practice increasingly includes a host of matters relating to computers and software, source code protection, electronics, medical devices, and design processes. The Practice Group's goal is to service the full spectrum of its clients' intellectual property needs by drawing upon the collective resources of several practice areas.


Description:
Representation in land use regulation matters is an essential aspect of the Environmental Practice Group. The firm has represented applicants in major commercial, resort and residential developments within state and federal jurisdictions. At the local level, the firm has appeared before a large number of municipalities throughout Maine on behalf of developers, public utilities, land owners and concerned neighbors in matters including subdivision and site plan approval, landfill siting applications, utility transmission lines and distribution facilities, contract zone agreements, wetland ordinances, variances, conditional use approval and shoreland zoning disputes. The firm has also been active in the representation of abutters and intervenor groups in municipal proceedings and the preparation and administration of land trusts, protective covenants and conservation agreements.


Description:
Litigators in Perkins Thompson's Litigation/Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group have conducted trials and appeals in state and federal courts in Maine and throughout New England. They have extensive experience in diverse areas of litigation, including complex business and contractual disputes, labor and employment litigation (including directors' and officers' liability, wrongful discharge, and sex and age discrimination), contested administrative appeals, public utility law, land use disputes, insurance defense, construction disputes, computer software disputes, franchise ownership and transfer contests, securities fraud, trademark and copyright infringements, personal injuries, products liability, and a variety of environmental law litigation. The Group's litigators work closely with the attorneys in the firm who have substantive knowledge of the issues in dispute. To maximize efficiency, litigators regularly analyze and discuss novel or difficult issues at litigation department meetings. From the outset, the client is involved in deciding case strategy, which may in appropriate cases involve avoiding trial through the use of mediation, arbitration, summary jury trial, or other alternative dispute resolution procedure. Perkins Thompson's philosophy in approaching litigation is simple: its attorneys seek to achieve the best possible result for the client in the most cost effective manner while incorporating a sensitivity to the client's individual needs.


Description:
Work in the mergers and acquisitions area represents some of the most challenging and sophisticated legal work to be offered by Perkins Thompson. Each year, the lawyers in the firm's Merger and Acquisitions Practice Group regularly handle transactions ranging from the purchase or sale of small family businesses to the acquisition of operating divisions or entire enterprises involving complex tax, employment, environmental, antitrust, regulatory and intellectual property issues. Our attorneys in this Practice Group regularly assist clients in all aspects of these transactions. The firm also has substantial experience serving as local counsel to assist with Maine law concerns affecting national mergers. You can expect experienced and knowledgeable counsel to assist both the first time and savvy business client with all phases of mergers and acquisitions.


Description:
The members of the Personal Injury Practice Group actively litigate the full range of personal injury cases, including complex products liability cases, in both state and federal courts. This Group often defends national corporations in multi-party complex product litigation. Additionally, it frequently represents plaintiffs in all types of personal injury litigation, including products liability, legal and medical malpractice actions. The Group's attorneys are active members of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association and the Group maintains a strong presence in courtrooms throughout the State of Maine.


Description:
Products liability constitutes a major part of the firm's litigation practice. Products liability is a rapidly developing area of Maine and 
national law that unites concepts of strict liability, due care and warranty. The firm represents sellers of products that are claimed to be defective and unreasonably dangerous to the user or consumer. 
Representative clients of the firm include a distributor of insulation products and a latex glove manufacturer.


Description:
Three areas of real estate transactions comprise the bulk of the Real Estate Practice Group: representation of business and residential developers; representation of large property owners, including timber and recreational entities; and secured lender financing of real estate acquisitions and construction. The firm has exceptional experience in representing lenders, corporations, utilities and developers in a varied field of business enterprises, including large industrial and commercial projects, utility and power transmission facilities, land subdivisions, condominiums, recreational resorts (timeshares), forested timber holdings, and coastal and wetland development. Examples of specific matters recently handled by the firm include on-going representation of a multinational corporation engaged in the acquisition, development and lease of service stations, convenience stores and related distribution facilities throughout Northern New England; siting an electrical transmission line through several municipalities in southern Maine; negotiation and drafting of industrial, commercial and retail leases; reorganization and recomposition of the debt of numerous real estate limited partnerships owning a wide variety of commercial facilities; representation of an emissions control company in its acquisition and start-up operations covering seven separate sites through southeastern and central Maine; representation of a national timberland investment company in its acquisition and disposition of thousands of acres of timberlands; representation of a foreign forest products company in its purchasing of timber interests in Northern New England; and representation in the acquisition, leasing and management of major holdings in the downtown Portland office market including the acclaimed Portland Public Market.


Description:
Perkins Thompson is fortunate to have several very substantial specialty retail clients who have relied on the firm's services as they recently experienced substantial growth in northern New England and Maine in particular. These client activities require knowledge pertaining to state and federal laws regulating such retail business operations, but also require coordination and alignment with a number of the firm's practice groups including government relations, health care, information technology, employment and labor, banking, financial services, transportation, litigation and alternative dispute resolution, merger and acquisitions, and distribution and dealerships.

The firm's clients tend to be highly visible and in many instances their business issues are both politically sensitive and of great interest to the media and the public at large. Practice issues as diverse as healthcare, tobacco, alcohol, energy, taxation, licensing and employment arise on a daily basis. These clients tend to have a substantial number of business operations throughout the width and breadth of the State of Maine, and in several instances employ well in excess of 1,000 individuals, making some of these clients amongst the top 25 employers within the State of Maine. Certain matters which can come up at a moment's notice require nearly constant consultation with in house corporate communications specialists, government affairs staff, legal departments, and financial affairs personnel. This particular Practice Group is the epitome of interdisciplinary work effort involving nearly all members of the firm at one time or another.


Description:
Perkins Thompson's sophisticated Tax Practice Group provides assistance to clients in connection with a broad spectrum of federal, state, and local tax matters including personal and corporate income tax planning, sales and use tax issues, local property tax questions, representation of clients in federal and state tax audits, and handling appeals at both the administrative level at the Internal Revenue Service and Maine Revenue Services and local property tax appellate boards as well as petitions for review before federal and state courts.


# Attorneys_BarAdmissions

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# Attorneys_Education

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A.B. cum laude, with distinction in History


School:
Georgetown University Law Center/University of Maine School of Law


School:
Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts


Degree:
B.A. summa cum laude, with honors in political science


Degree:
B.A. with Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa


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