Project and Resource Development

Saul Ewing attorneys possess the resources, experience and relationships to handle major development projects and bring them to completion. Over the years, the Department’s attorneys, from a combination of the Transactional Real Estate, Environment and Natural Resources and Energy and Utilities practice groups, have collaborated on numerous large-scale development projects. As a result, Saul Ewing has amassed an integrated body of experience and knowledge that distinguishes it from its competitors. This advantage, coupled with our extensive local, state and federal government contacts and experience, gives clients the full range of resources needed to bring large development deals to successful completion.

Recognizing this unique strength inspired the firm to establish its Project and Resource Development (PRD) Department in 2010. The Department is dedicated to representing developers and associated clients through the complex – and, let's face it, often unwieldy -- process of making their big projects a reality.

Whether the project involves infrastructure development, such as pipeline expansions or building roads and bridges; real estate work, such as the expansion of a metropolitan convention center; or establishing new utilities, such as creating the first nuclear power plant in the nation in 30 years, we can do, and have done, the work. Attorneys in Saul Ewing’s PRD Department are the counsel you can rely on when you embark on a major project – and do not want to re-invent the wheel.

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Our Capabilities

• Property sales and acquisition
• Site and land use approvals
• Financing and investor relations
• Environmental permitting and due diligence
• Environmental enforcement defense
• Mass environmental tort defense
• Permitting and approvals
• Compliance audits and advice
• Solar and wind project development, financing and permitting
• Government relations
• Community relations
• Utility due diligence, including rate structuring and approvals
• Rate proceedings, administrative enforcement actions, and other regulatory proceedings before state public utility commissions
• Construction and Infrastructure
• Structuring and creating air right developments
• Transit-oriented development
• Leasing and management
• Tax strategies
• Land use, litigation and appeals

In today's world, any major project encompasses far more than signing a stack of documents to buy and develop property. It overlaps with environmental and utilities law, requires political savvy and the diplomacy to juggle diverse constituencies ranging from elected officials at the local, state and federal levels to representatives from the US Environmental Protection Agency to citizens with vested interests in a development project. And that is in addition to all the "normal legal work" big projects entail -- including but not limited to the acquisition, approvals, financing, construction, leasing and management responsibilities. Attorneys in the PRD Department share complementary practices that, when pooled together, provide clients with a strong team that can undertake and oversee the development process in a coordinated manner.

Why Saul Ewing? Strong Connections and Valuable Experience

The Department is comprised of attorneys who have served in-house and in public service positions and in industry leadership positions, gaining valuable local, state and federal experience and contacts. Please click here to view our attorney's leadership positions on local, state and regional associations and boards.

Singularly focused on shepherding large public and private projects through the entire lifecycle of the development process