Katherine E. Hedges

Senior Associate

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Katherine is a member of the Renewable/Alternative Energy and Utility Practice Group and the Business and Finance Practice Group. Her work primarily focuses on support of the firm’s renewable energy practice, which include solar, wind, hydroelectric, and landfill natural gas projects. As part of that practice, she represents lenders, investors, developers, and sponsors in performing due diligence and structuring, negotiating, and closing transactions involving the construction, acquisition, sale, and financing of renewable energy projects throughout the country. She also assists developers and landowners with real estate transactions involving purchase and sale, leasing, easements, and other matters in support of development of renewable energy projects.

Katherine also has a wide range of experience outside of the renewable energy practice, including representing clients in commercial real estate transactions, business formation and corporate compliance, contract negotiation, and mergers and acquisition. Katherine advises clients on a wide range of business matters, including entity formation, employment issues, contract drafting and negotiation, and dissolution of entities.

Prior to joining the firm, Katherine worked as an attorney at Hage Hodes Professional Association in Manchester, where her focus was corporate law and civil litigation. She completed her undergraduate studies at Boston University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in both Environmental Analysis & Policy and International Relations. She obtained her juris doctorate from University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law.

Education and Bar Admissions

Representative Matters

Community Involvement

Noteworthy

Awards and Recognitions

Education and Bar Admissions

Representative Matters

Community Involvement

Noteworthy

Awards and Recognitions

603-410-4327

Katherine E. Hedges

Senior Associate

Education and Bar Admissions

Education:

Boston University, B.A.
University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, J.D.

Bar Admissions

New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Maine

Representative Matters

Represents both tax equity investors and sponsors in connection with tax equity investment in solar portfolios, including for commercial and industrial, community solar, and utility scale projects.
Represented lenders as local counsel for construction and term loan, letter of credit facilities, and ITC bridge loan for a solar project in Maine.
Represented lenders as local counsel for real estate matters related to acquisition of a portfolio of hydroelectric assets.
Represented developers in drafting and negotiating leases for solar projects.
Represented buyer in company asset purchase, including patent.
Represented seller in asset sale of retail gift shop.
Assisted clients with opening a new fitness center and martial arts studio.
Representing owners, purchasers of, and lenders to solar energy projects.
Performing due diligence for lenders and purchasers of renewable energy projects.
Negotiating purchase and sale agreements, drafting commercial real estate conveyance and lease documents, and closing commercial real estate transactions on behalf of sellers, purchasers, and lenders.
Undertaking due diligence investigations for clients acquiring renewable energy projects.
Fortune Laurel, LLC v. High Liner Foods (USA) Incorporated, Trustee Defendant, et al., No. 2019-0307 (affirming New Hampshire had jurisdiction to maintain a trustee process attachment).
Hodges v. Johnson et al., No. 2019-0319 (affirming an award of attorneys’ fees and costs against former trustees found to have breached their fiduciary duty) (on the brief).
Carr v. Town of New London, No. 2016-0350 (affirming the availability of the abatement process for taxpayers whose home was destroyed by fire when the taxpayers had not utilized an alternative avenue for property tax relief)(on the brief).

Community Involvement

Vice President, New Hampshire Women’s Bar Association
Member, New Hampshire Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education Committee
Member, New Hampshire Bar Association Leadership Academy Class of 2023-2024
Member of Volunteer Steering Committee, NH Coalition for Resettlement of Afghan Women Judges
Solar Energy Industries Association

Noteworthy

Published New Hampshire Supreme Court Decisions

Fortune Laurel, LLC v. High Liner Foods (USA) Incorporated, Trustee Defendant, et al., No. 2019-0307 (affirming New Hampshire had jurisdiction to maintain a trustee process attachment).
Hodges v. Johnson et al., No. 2019-0319 (affirming an award of attorneys’ fees and costs against former trustees found to have breached their fiduciary duty) (on the brief).
Carr v. Town of New London, No. 2016-0350 (affirming the availability of the abatement process for taxpayers whose home was destroyed by fire when the taxpayers had not utilized an alternative avenue for property tax relief)(on the brief).

Speaking Engagements

Transactional Attorney Panel, University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law, Fundamentals of Lawyering Class, April 25, 2024.
Co-Chair and Speaker, New Hampshire Bar Association, Employment Law 101 CLE, March 6, 2024
Panel Participant, New Hampshire Bar Association, The Accidental Attorney: Terms of Engagement, 2021 Annual Member Meeting, June 25, 2021
Speaker, New Hampshire Bar Association, Traps for the Unwary: Landlord and Tenant CLE, May 12, 2021
Speaker, New Hampshire Bar Association, Traps for the Unwary: Business Corporations CLE, January 13, 2021

Publications

“How Community Power is Transforming the New Hampshire Energy Landscape, One Year Later,” New Hampshire Bar News, Vol. 35, No. 5 (September 18, 2024) (with Lauren Kilmister)
“Community Power Is Transforming the Energy Landscape in New Hampshire,” New Hampshire Bar News, Vol. 34, No. 4 (September 20, 2023) (with Lauren Kilmister)
“12 Tips for Filing Electronically in the NH Superior Court,” New Hampshire Bar News, Vol. 29, No. 10 (March 20, 2019)
“How to Make Your Legal Office More Environmentally Friendly,” New Hampshire Bar News, Vol. 27, No. 12 (May 17, 2017)