Jeff is Barclay Damon’s Regulatory Practice Group leader, Telecommunications Practice Area chair, and Project Development Practice Area co-chair. He focuses primarily on large-scale development projects, including commercial development; renewable energy, specifically wind and solar; lifestyle centers; commercial greenhouses; and wireless telecommunications facilities.
Jeff works with clients’ development goals and business plans to define the development project-build process. He routinely structures deals and procures financing and incentives for public- and private-sector clients through PILOTs and the SEQRA process. He has extensive experience coordinating environmental impact studies; obtaining zoning, permitting, project siting, and regulatory approvals from municipalities; and working with industrial development agencies.
Jeff also represents telecommunications tower companies, wireless-telephone providers, personal communications-service (PCS) providers, and major telephone companies in a variety of infrastructure-development projects across New York and Vermont. Jeff delivers strategic advice and zoning and permitting approaches to achieve aggressive development schedules in the highly competitive wireless communications field. He has niche experience in zoning and siting complex wireless infrastructure in the highly regulated Adirondack Park, and he also serves as the national zoning-compliance legal planner for a major PCS wireless provider.
Jeff advises on resolving liability and minimizing financial exposure involving contaminated sites. He has extensive experience with complex Superfund sites involving contaminated soils, sediments, and waterways as well as the identification of third parties and sources and natural resource damages (NRD). Jeff represents clients in regulatory compliance issues and in the enforcement of federal environmental regulations and state counterparts, including the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Toxic Substances and Control Act (TSCA), and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).