Read about how Pullman & Comley has helped clients address a range of legal challenges, expand their businesses and navigate the realities of today's marketplace.
We are proud to serve as legal counsel to the Market Hospitality Group (MHG), Connecticut’s largest independent restaurant group known for both a truly thrilling culinary vision and exciting and innovative strategies for the food, beverage, and hospitality space. MHG is undergoing a period of explosive growth, and, with the pending addition of seven new restaurants, is on target to operate over twenty locations by the end of 2025.
Our Hospitality Law team, led by Ryan O’Donnell (chair) and Maria Rapp (vice chair), includes attorneys from practices across the firm, including Litigation, Labor and Employment, Real Estate, and Business and Finance, offering our clients all the benefits and collective insights that come with working with a full-service law firm.
Pullman & Comley attorneys assisted the Windham Region No Freeze Project with a variety of pro bono projects, including reviewing contracts and agreements and researching relevant laws and regulations that affect operations. The No Freeze Project has provided emergency shelter for adults experiencing homelessness and assisted those in the greatest need with a warm, safe place to sleep, as well as hygiene, navigation and housing services for the past 20 years. The work that Pullman attorneys took on allowed the nonprofit to build its first permanent shelter.
Our representation of municipalities, businesses and developers often involves navigating significant environmental and regulatory issues in projects that will have a lasting positive impact. For example, we currently represent the Naugatuck Valley Council of Governments in a collaborative effort to remove two aging dams from the Naugatuck River with the goal of restoring the river to its natural course and allowing migratory fish passage, while improving water quality, eliminating dam safety concerns and reducing flood risk. Our attorneys worked with federal and state regulators, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services to comply with myriad regulations relating to the dams’ removal, as well as the remediation of 200 years of industrial sediments that had accumulated behind them. This remediation will allow the effective passage of fish for a 40-mile stretch of the Naugatuck River from Long Island Sound.
The Firm has been representing the Capital Region Development Authority in connection with the first phase of Hartford's Downtown North redevelopment project, a $250 million plan for a mix of housing, entertainment and retail development surrounding Dunkin' Donuts Park. Our work will support the construction of 270 apartments in buildings with street-level restaurant and retail space, along with a 330-space parking garage.
Our Real Estate attorneys represented the landlord in connection with the preparation and negotiation of a ground lease with Vineyard Wind LLC to allow it to develop its hub to support the construction of its Park City Wind farm. This project will develop up to 1,200 MW of offshore wind energy and crate as many as 12,000 direct, indirect, and induced full-time equivalent (FTE) job years across Connecticut.
During the last two years, our Workouts and Financial Restructuring practice advised clients through the impact of COVID-19 on lender-borrower and landlord-tenant relationships, as well as the pandemic’s overall disruption to all businesses and the courts.