Municipality Due Diligence for Development Projects: Strategies for Avoiding Developer-Sided Agreements

Mr. Makarious represents clients on municipal, airport, environmental, and construction matters. His airport work includes representing airports around the country on the negotiation of complex lease transactions with airlines, including airline use and lease agreements and agreements with airline fuel consortia. Mr. Makarious worked to revise the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s Aeronautics regulations, and works with the Department’s Aeronautics Division on matters regarding the use and regulation of drones. He has also assisted a private manufacturer of drone technologies in obtaining a waiver from the FAA for the use of drones beyond the visual line of sight, one of the first such waivers ever granted by the FAA.

Ms. Pickering-Cook helps both public and private sector clients navigate issues related to construction, land use and real estate. She is skilled at drafting agreements in those areas to protect her clients, and strategically litigating on their behalf when it is necessary. Ms. Pickering-Cook has successfully litigated a broad range of real estate, construction and land use matters – including permitting and zoning issues – for her clients at all levels in state and federal courts. She is also part of an innovative Construction Project Delivery Think Group made up of national construction industry leaders that are working on finding technologically-based solutions to hurdles faced in the project delivery process.