Projects

Have acted as counsel to more than five hundred individual and family property owners across the country in tax planning for conservation and preservation easement donations, including farms, ranches, forestland, family estates, coastal, and island properties.

Advisor to the seller in what we believe was at the time the largest conservation purchase by a government agency to date (purchase price in excess of $100,000,000).

Advisor to the prospective purchaser (state government agencies) in an offer to acquire multi-thousand acre parcel in an acquisition that, if successful, would have become the largest conservation purchase by government to date (purchase price a multiple of $100,000,000).

Counsel to the easement holder in the largest (in terms of acreage) conservation easement transaction to date (more than 750,000 acres).

Counsel to the easement holder in what we believe was the largest conservation purchase by a non-profit to date (purchase price in excess of $60,000,000; subsequent conveyance at the time by non-profit purchaser of conservation easement on entire property).

Counsel to the donor in what we believe will be, when complete, the largest conservation easement donation (by acreage) in the United States.

Counsel to the easement holder in what we believe is the largest (in terms of valuation) historic preservation easement transaction to date.