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. As part of that practice, she assists national and local companies in performing due diligence and closing transactions involving the acquisition, sale, and financing of renewable energy projects throughout the country. The energy group also represents project owners in obtaining necessary federal and state regulatory approvals.

Katherine also has a wide range of experience outside of the renewable energy practice, including representing clients in commercial and residential real estate matters, contract negotiation, mergers and acquisition, and real estate and business litigation. 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 in Environmental Analysis & Policy and International Relations. She obtained her juris doctorate from University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law.

Katherine is a New Hampshire native and is active in a number of state and local community organizations. Prior to attending law school, Katherine worked in business-to-business sales.

Katherine E. Hedges

Senior Associate

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. As part of that practice, she assists national and local companies in performing due diligence and closing transactions involving the acquisition, sale, and financing of renewable energy projects throughout the country. The energy group also represents project owners in obtaining necessary federal and state regulatory approvals.

Katherine also has a wide range of experience outside of the renewable energy practice, including representing clients in commercial and residential real estate matters, contract negotiation, mergers and acquisition, and real estate and business litigation. 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 in Environmental Analysis & Policy and International Relations. She obtained her juris doctorate from University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law.

Katherine is a New Hampshire native and is active in a number of state and local community organizations. Prior to attending law school, Katherine worked in business-to-business sales.

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

  • 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 Committee on Cooperation with the Courts
  • Executive Committee, Manchester Bar Association
  • Administrative Assistant, Springfield, NH Fire-Rescue Department

Noteworthy

Awards and Recognitions