Bradley Arant offers economic development legal expertise

Alabama and the South have become a top choice for companies seeking a combination of business-friendly incentives, a skilled, yet affordable workforce, and an attractive living environment for their employees.

The opportunities are real, and law firm Bradley Arant Rose & White helps companies leverage those opportunities with a cross-discipline team approach to locating or expanding operations in Alabama and the surrounding states. This team approach ensures that the lawyer best suited for each aspect of the project is involved.

Our Economic Development Practice Group understands the complexities of every aspect of the business location process. It combines a thorough working knowledge of economic development incentives, land use and site selection procedures at the state and local level with strong relationships built over many years with key governmental, economic development and civic leaders.

A team approach to economic development

Bradley Arant’s attorneys have negotiated a variety of economic incentives packages with state and local governments and possess substantive knowledge in the complete process a company undertakes when locating or expanding in Alabama. Because of its extensive involvement, the firm’s attorneys are versed in what incentives local governments have offered and how to structure incentives transactions to maximize the benefits to our clients.

The Governmental Affairs Practice Group at Bradley Arant provides advice and representation for public and private clients on regulatory and legislative matters at the federal, state, and local levels. The firm’s lawyers include former members of the staffs of various members of Congress and the executive branch.

Bradley Arant also works closely with site selection consultants, early in the selection process, to help ensure that a company makes its business decisions based on complete and reliable information through its Real Estate Practice Group. The firm’s experience includes all aspects of contract negotiation, coordination of due diligence, title and survey review, and the closing of the acquisition.

Building, litigating and employment support

Bradley Arant has assisted companies operating in or locating to Alabama to obtain the necessary environmental permits. This counsel ranges from arranging for all the permitting of a state-of-the-art steel manufacturing facility to the ongoing needs of established Alabama industries. In addition, our attorneys have assisted clients to obtain PSD permits (which are needed before construction begins), NPDES water discharge permits, and successfully defending the issuance of these permits in administrative proceedings against third party challengers.

Bradley Arant has a large group of attorneys who devote their practices to construction and procurement, as well as a Labor and Employment Practice Group that represents employers in all issues arising under state and federal labor, employment, and occupational health and safety laws. Lawyers across the firm’s multiple offices also have considerable knowledge in matters involving international law.

With the largest group of patent attorneys in Alabama and one of the largest intellectual property practices in the Southeast, Bradley Arant’s attorneys are well versed in virtually all technology disciplines, including biochemistry, electrical engineering, design engineering, computer science, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, and nuclear engineering matters.

For more information about Bradley Arant, call 205.521.8000 or visit www.bradleyarant.com.

No representation is made that the quality of the legal services to be performed is greater than the quality of legal services performed by other lawyers. Contact: John B. Grenier, Esq., 1819 Fifth Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203.