Perkins Coie works with forest products companies as they confront and conquer new technologies and market and regulatory demands.
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Perkins Coie works with forest products companies as they confront and conquer new technologies and market and regulatory demands.
Perkins Coie offers comprehensive national and cross-border corporate counsel on issues faced by participants in the forest products industry. These include strategic real estate investments and transactions, traditional forest industry issues, technical challenges in manufacturing and marketing, and matters affecting operations.
We have long served as trusted counsel to leading industry companies, institutional investors in commercial timberland, and major forest landowners. Our clients include Boise Cascade, Evergreen Packaging, Green Diamond Resources, Louisiana-Pacific, Mendocino Redwood Company, and Weyerhaeuser.
Areas of Emphasis
- Real Estate and Land Use
- Federal and state land exchanges
- Highest and best use appraisals
- Planning and zoning
- Conservation easements/habitat conservation plans
- Corporate and Financing
- Sales, mergers, and acquisitions of forest land, facilities, and other assets
- Antitrust, tax, import/export, and regulatory compliance
- Energy and Environmental
- Biomass energy, carbon credit markets
- Incentive programs such as the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP)
- Permitting and environmental regulations
- Forest management and certifications
- Litigation and Regulatory:
- Road access and use issues
- State and federal legislative advocacy and advice on rulemaking
- Administrative and regulatory proceedings
- Class-action defense, product liability, and other litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Trademark, licensing, and software
- Innovative wood products
- Labor & Employment
- Insurance
- Coverage audits and claims
- Forest fire investigations
Perkins Coie offers comprehensive national and cross-border corporate counsel on issues faced by participants in the forest products industry. These include strategic real estate investments and transactions, traditional forest industry issues, technical challenges in manufacturing and marketing, and matters affecting operations.
We have long served as trusted counsel to leading industry companies, institutional investors in commercial timberland, and major forest landowners. Our clients include Boise Cascade, Evergreen Packaging, Green Diamond Resources, Louisiana-Pacific, Mendocino Redwood Company, and Weyerhaeuser.
Areas of Emphasis
- Real Estate and Land Use
- Federal and state land exchanges
- Highest and best use appraisals
- Planning and zoning
- Conservation easements/habitat conservation plans
- Corporate and Financing
- Sales, mergers, and acquisitions of forest land, facilities, and other assets
- Antitrust, tax, import/export, and regulatory compliance
- Energy and Environmental
- Biomass energy, carbon credit markets
- Incentive programs such as the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP)
- Permitting and environmental regulations
- Forest management and certifications
- Litigation and Regulatory:
- Road access and use issues
- State and federal legislative advocacy and advice on rulemaking
- Administrative and regulatory proceedings
- Class-action defense, product liability, and other litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Trademark, licensing, and software
- Innovative wood products
- Labor & Employment
- Insurance
- Coverage audits and claims
- Forest fire investigations
Immersed in the Forest Products Industry
Recipients of a National Tier 1 ranking from U.S. News - Best Lawyers® for both Natural Resources Law and Timber Law, Perkins Coie attorneys are active participants in the forest products industry.
We serve as members of the Alaska Forest Association, American Forest & Paper Association, American Forest Resources Council, California Forestry Association, and National Alliance of Forest Owners.
Cross-Border and Full-Service Counsel
Increasingly, forest product companies are involved in international and cross-border opportunities. Perkins Coie’s experience spans lands, properties, and assets across North America, as well as South America, New Zealand, and the Cayman Islands. For example, we guided Trillium Corporation through financings, workouts, and sales connected to several hundred thousand hectares of its timberlands, mills, and other properties in Tierra del Fuego in Chile and Argentina.
The bench strength of our environmental and other business-oriented practice groups is a tremendous resource for our forest products clients. We have amassed deep experience with legal issues related to operating and closing facilities, including remediation. In the process, Perkins Coie attorneys are able to advise clients on Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), National Forest Management Act (NFMA), Clean Water Act (CWA), National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and Endangered Species Act (ESA) compliance and litigation.
In the areas of labor and employment and employee benefits law, Perkins Coie provides dedicated teams focused on Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), collective bargaining agreements, workplace safety and health, and other related issues that may arise for clients in the forest products sector.
