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.
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.
Our team is defending a variety of clients that have had enforcement actions brought against them under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and state and federal waste regulations. The actions, which have been brought by state and federal regulators could have resulted in millions of fines being levied against our clients. However, by working with technical professionals and explaining the science behind the alleged violations, our team was able to secure reasonable settlements for our clients.
During the past year, we assisted licensed health care facilities in negotiating purchase and sale transactions, restructured medical practice governance structures to accommodate physician departures and disputes, worked with clients and the Connecticut Department of Public Health and Office of Health Strategy on change of ownership and reviewed and negotiated on-boarding agreements with the newly-formed Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange.
We worked with clients to understand the newly-enacted 21st Century Cures Act regulations regarding information blocking compliance, including a review of clients’ technology, administrative practices and contracts.