WLJ advises a wide variety of clients who rely on the state’s natural resources for business.
Our team has the skill to guide clients through complex and ever changing legislation, regulatory action and market competition, as well as specific and rich experience with energy finance.
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WLJ attorneys recognized by The Best Lawyers in America© for their work in the natural resources sector.
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Governmental entities recently represented in connection with the issuance of more than $400,000,000 in energy financings.
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Although Arkansas is known as the Natural State, one of the state’s oldest problems is how to achieve effective management of its natural resources. Today, the greatest challenges for clients who rely upon the state’s natural resources for business, recreation and enjoyment are ever changing state and federal legislation, increasing regulatory control and competing interests for rights to harvest, cultivate, extract and market diminishing natural resources. Whether a client is in need of advice regarding water, oil, natural gas, timber rights, solar and other energy facilities, or other naturally occurring resources, our attorneys have the skills to effectively guide clients through complex legal, financial, practical and political issues.
The firm has represented various State agencies, cities and counties throughout the State of Arkansas in financings involving energy savings transactions, both taxable and tax exempt, for financing of such projects as solar facilities for the generation of electricity, natural gas and coal-fired electric generating facilities, government buildings and facilities, and tax-exempt lease transactions to finance the full range of governmental and commercial energy facilities.
Specifically with respect to energy bond and tax-exempt energy lease transactions, in the past five years Walter McSpadden has represented approximately one dozen Arkansas governmental entities in connection with the issuance of more than $400,000,000 in energy financings.