Timber Industry

A small sample of our timber industry experience includes:

• Representing clients around the world in connection with large sophisticated purchase and sale transactions involving a wide variety of legal and operational issues unique to timberlands.
• Representing clients in connection with domestic and international forest products facilities.
• Representing financial institutions in connection with solutions such as structured finance.
• Advising high-net-worth individual and institutional (e.g., pension fund, REIT) investors in all aspects of creating and operating foreign and domestic investment funds.
• Assisting clients in planning for exempt investors.
• Counseling clients regarding depletion issues.
• Advising clients in connection with pass-through vehicles.
• Representing clients considering deferral opportunities.
• Assisting clients with charitable contributions.
• Representing clients in connection with land and timber allocations.
• Advising clients regarding losses due to infestation and other natural causes.
• Representing TIMOs in corporate and real estate transactions, capital formation and investment agreement negotiations.
• Advising TIMOs regarding management and compliance matters.
• Negotiating wood and fiber supply agreements, partnership agreements and asset acquisitions.
• Preparing and negotiating supply agreements for energy plantations and biomass projects.
• Counseling providers and owners of woody feedstock and operators of biomass energy facilities.