Recent counsel and representation

Expert witness respecting the standard of care and practice in commercial transactions with tribes.
Counsel to landlord in connection with its lease to a federally chartered tribal corporation.
Counsel to investor in connection with the development of a carbon project on, and purchase of carbon credits generated from, Indian land.
Counsel to county government in connection with tribe.s application to transfer fee land to trust.
Counsel to noteholders in connection with the restructuring of tribal debt.
Counsel to lender in connection with debt restructuring and claims for loss on federal guaranties of loans to tribes
Counsel to lender in connection with the modification of a Bureau of Indian Affairs-guaranteed financing of a $28 million hotel and spa in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Counsel to a major U.S. life insurance company in connection with its lease of an office/warehouse property to the Seminole Nation in Florida.
Counsel to a major U.S. energy producer in connection with its development of solar electric generation on Indian land and sale of power under power purchase agreements with tribes in Connecticut and California.
Counsel to U.S. electric generation company in connection with the sale of its assets.
Counsel for developer of a 1500 MW electric generation plant and 180 mile transmission line on the Navajo Nation.
Counsel for an investment fund in connection with its due diligence and development of recommendations for its bid on a complex aggregation of contaminated mining properties located on tribal land in Arizona.
Lender’s counsel in connection with its financing of oil and gas assets on tribal land in Utah.
Counsel to developer of an LNG terminal in connection with potential claims of a tribe to land necessary for development of a natural gas pipeline.
Counsel to owner/operator of an electric generation plant in Nevada regarding regarding a tribal Employment Rights Ordinance and the client’s ground lease for the generation facility.
Counsel to purchaser of New Mexico tribal oil and gas leases from a debtor in bankruptcy.
Lender’s counsel in connection with a $12,500,000 Bureau of Indian Affairs-guaranteed credit facility to support standby letters of credit for the benefit of an Indian-owned company.
Counsel to sellers and purchasers of commercial and residential real estate in New Mexico and Washington, D.C.
Counsel to a foreign company in connection with its acquisition and sale of industrial sites in the U.S.
Counsel to owner of mixed use buildings in connection with retail and office leasing.
Counsel to a foreign company in connection with commercial lease in Washington, D.C.
Counsel to foreign owner/operator of a large electric generation facility in connection with its payoff of project financing.
Counsel to a foreign company in connection with leases of office properties in various locations in the United States.
Counsel for a national oil company in connection with real estate and selected business transfer issues related to its divestiture of assets.
Counsel to a large U.S. energy company in connection with its investment in a venture to develop oil and gas on the East Fort Peck Reservation.
Counsel to lenders in connection with development, construction and permanent financing of shopping center, commercial, retail and office properties; RV park/gas station/convenience store projects, public and government complexes and schools, including numerous commercial retail and office buildings on, and off, tribal land.
Counsel to multi-national institutional lender regarding Indian law in connection with its financing the purchase of oil and gas interests located tribal land.
Counsel to multi-national energy company respecting Indian law issues related to its proposed investment in an in situ leaching uranium mine.
Special counsel to appellants in appeals of decisions by Bureau of Indian Affairs adverse to a non-tribal party under 25 U.S.C. 81 (2001) in GasPlus v. Department of the Interior.
Counsel to equipment leasing company in connection with leases of commercial equipment to tribes and tribal entities.
Counsel to institutional lenders in connection with restructuring operating capital loans to a tribally-owned defense contractor, loans to for tribal governmental purposes and in development, construction and permanent financing of tribally-owned resort and golf course projects.
Counsel large domestic energy company in connection with the sale of electricity to a tribe.
Counsel to lender in connection with credit facility subordinated to senior credit facility guaranteed by Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Counsel to sellers and lenders in sales and refinancing, development, construction and permanent financings of hotels and destination resort projects.
Represented various parties on issues specific to project development and finance on tribal land including traditional and renewable energy, telecommunications, mining, commercial, retail, housing, title insurance, and special licensing.
Represented lenders in numerous BIA-guaranteed loans for tribal projects.
Drafted comments on regulations related to the BIA loan guaranty and insurance program under the Indian Financing Act., business leasing and 25 U.S.C. §81.
Negotiated licenses and easements, including utility and pipeline easements and service line agreements; negotiation of lease and license agreements on behalf of a wind power development company and exercising rights derived from a license to extract minerals on tribal lands.
Counsel to lender in connection with restructuring of BIA-guaranteed financing of agricultural and commercial loans.