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Location: One Canal Plz
Neighborhood: Downtown Portland
AKA: Peter J McDonell Attorney
Other Link: http://perkinsthompson.com
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Phone: (207) 774-2635

Address: 1 Canal Plz, Portland, ME 04101

Website: http://perkinsthompson.com

McDonell, Peter J

Family Law

Divorce
Child Custody and Visitation
Perkins Thompson welcomes Whitney Hayre as an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Whitney brings an extensive background in trial work and a track record of successfully representing clients in courtrooms across Maine. Prior to joining Perkins Thompson, Whitney practiced at another Portland firm where she specialized in family matters, including divorce and child custody, and litigated criminal matters.
Guardianship
The position would involve assisting clients on their core estate plans, including wills, revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and health care advance directives, plus probate court work that includes estate administration and guardianship/conservatorship matters. Perkins Thompson acquired Maine Center for Elder Law in 2019, and as a result, has the skill and experience to offer a full range of estate planning services out of our Portland and Kennebunk offices. We offer competitive starting pay with bonus incentives and a generous benefits package.

Criminal Law

Criminal Defense
Theft
Identity Theft
The IRS reported a total of 1.6 million victims of identity theft involving stolen tax refunds in the first half of 2013, compared to just 271,000 for the whole of…
Money Laundering
Companies and individuals who engage in cryptocurrency-related business ventures must often register with the U.S. Department of Treasury as money services businesses or hold state money transmitter licenses. We monitor the evolving federal and state laws that apply in these spaces and can advise clients on their related compliance obligations, which can include the creation and implementation of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programs.

Business and Corporate Law

Corporate Law
Draft entity documents, such as shareholder agreements, bylaws, limited liability company agreements, partnership agreements and corporate management agreements
Mergers and Acquisitions
We counsel a variety of international, national, regional and local financial institution clients, including national banks and state chartered institutions, both depository and non-depository, as well as non-depository lenders and mortgage companies, holding companies, service corporations, charitable foundations and other affiliated entities. We regularly provide operational and regulatory assistance, as well as guidance in the areas of corporate structure, taxation, mergers and acquisitions, lending, deposit and trust operations, and vendor contracting and procurement documentation.
Business Disputes
As one of Maine’s leading business law firms, Perkins Thompson is well known for providing legal services of the highest caliber to businesses and businesspeople. Our attorneys have experience and expertise in all facets of business and commercial law, including transactions of all sizes and types. Bringing to bear a collective body of expertise developed through years of practice and dedication to advancing our clients’ interests, we deliver results in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Business Transactions
We also spend much of our time evaluating and minimizing our clients’ environmental risks as they pursue and complete real estate and business transactions that involve the transfer of contaminated or potentially contaminated properties. Our expertise extends to a host of federal environmental laws, including CERCLA (also known as the “Superfund” law), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), and the Clean Water Act, including federal point source discharge laws, and their Maine law counterparts, including the Maine Uncontrolled Sites Law, the Maine Oil Pollution Liability Act, the Maine hazardous waste laws, and the Maine Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (MPDES). We regularly assist clients with environmental due diligence in connection with acquisitions, mergers, and the sales of commercial and industrial properties. We advocate for our clients in connection with sale or lease agreements in which there are complicated allocations of environmental liability, and advise clients on a range of environmental issues including the closing out of environmental escrow accounts or the exercise of indemnification provisions.
Limited Liability Companies
Bill has represented a wide range of businesses and individuals in Maine for over thirty years, including companies owning over 2,000 residential and commercial real estate units, retailers, non-profit corporations, security monitoring companies, real estate agencies, medical and other professionals, and many others. Bill regularly assists his clients in real estate and business acquisitions and sales as well as obtaining commercial financing, leasing, forming limited liability companies and corporations, and also advises and provides solutions to his clients with respect to their everyday business, transactional and litigation needs. Bill has substantial litigation and bankruptcy court experience which has proved invaluable in advising business and real estate clients on assessing future issues that may arise.
Construction Contracts
We regularly represent developers, lenders, architects, engineers, owners, municipalities, general contractors, and subcontractors in legal issues regarding construction projects throughout New England. Our construction law team can draft and negotiate construction contracts to help prevent disputes from arising. When disputes do arise, the construction law team has extensive experience prosecuting and defending disputes in state and federal courts, and in arbitration and mediation.
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Property
Bill regularly assists clients with brand and marketing matters, including sweepstakes, contests and promotions, and intellectual property issues. Recent representative matters include assisting a multinational motor fuel marketing company negotiate and draft a major sports sponsorship and advertising agreement, helping a client navigate the regulatory and contractual issues in establishing a customer loyalty and rewards program with online and mobile app functionality, assisting a national bank on various sweepstakes, contest, and promotional programs throughout the U.S., providing regulatory compliance guidance to clients on email, text, and mobile advertising issues, and handling the prosecution, defense, and maintenance of numerous trademark registrations for clients in various fields.
Antitrust

Employment Law

Wrongful Termination
Employment Discrimination
Katherine graduated from the University of Maine School of Law with honors. During her Juris Doctor studies she interned at the Maine Human Rights Commission, investigating employment discrimination complaints; interned at a multinational financial services corporation, where she focused on topics including cyber security, contracts, financial institution regulations and COVID-19 impacts; held editorial positions on (and published in) the
Employment Contract
Advise on employment, labor, and immigration issues and draft and negotiate employment agreement and stock option plans
Employment Litigation
In the event of a claim or other dispute, we are experienced in providing skilled and thorough defense. In addition to the mediation and arbitration of employment disputes, we handle matters in state and federal courts and before state and federal administrative agencies, including the EEOC, OSHA, USDOL, NLRB, and state human rights agencies.
Non-compete Agreement
Governor Mills signed into law “An Act to Promote Keeping Workers in Maine” (26 M.R.S. §§599-A and 599-B), set to become effective September 19, 2019, placing significant limitations on the use of employee noncompete agreements and prohibiting agreements among employers not to solicit or hire each other’s employees. In passing this legislation, Maine joins its New England neighbors, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, in restricting the use and enforceability of noncompete agreements and joins the national trend in striking down so-called “no poaching” agreements.
Sexual Harassment
Acted as an independent investigator for an employer in response to a claim of sexual harassment brought by an employee; conducted numerous witness interviews and issued written report.

Property Law

Real Estate Litigation
Julianne C. Ray and David C. Johnson are listed in the The Best Lawyers in America for Real Estate Law. Gordon Scannell is recommended for Real Estate in Chambers USA. Gordon Scannell has been an active Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers since 2004, and has been recognized by Who’s Who Legal for Real Estate. Gordon Scannell is co-author of Maine Real Estate Law and Practice 2nd ed. (2007).
Construction Litigation
In the construction business, every action has a domino effect. If trouble develops in one part of the job, the entire project suffers. A bid protest, a mechanic’s lien, a bond claim — any one of these can stop a project in its tracks, causing even more problems down the chain. As construction law attorneys, we understand how to achieve practical and efficient business solutions to these issues.
Real Estate Transactions
Melanie joined Perkins Thompson in 2022 as an associate in the firm’s Real Estate and Governmental Services Practice Groups, where she assists clients in real estate transactions and in zoning and permitting matters across Maine. Melanie came to the firm from an in-house position where she primarily assisted in deployment of small wireless facilities, macro wireless facilities, and broadband infrastructure across the United States, representing wireless carriers and infrastructure owners in zoning and permitting matters. Melanie works hard to ensure she knows a client’s goals and needs, and thrives on bringing plans to fruition down to the tiny details.
Eminent Domain
We proudly represent municipalities, municipal boards and committees, municipal officials, water and sewer districts, and quasi-governmental entities across the state on a broad range of matters including contracts, labor relations and employment, ordinance drafting, elections, property taxation, tax increment financing, eminent domain, litigation, and regulation, including land use and enforcement matters.
Easement
Land Use and Zoning
Our attorneys have extensive experience in helping our clients navigate the complex web of local, state, and federal permitting requirements, and their applicability to development projects large and small. We frequently represent developers, individual landowners, and businesses of all sizes in obtaining approvals from local planning boards and zoning boards of appeal, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, the Land Use Planning Commission, and a host of other state and federal government agencies. Our expertise extends to a broad range of matters, including...
Condominium Law
Pete’s practice is broad: his recent engagements include the representation of a privately held corporation in connection with its acquisition and development of facilities throughout the northeast; the representation of a regional commercial lender with respect to all aspects of its lending practice; the representation of small businesses in the negotiation of retail, office, and industrial leases; the representation of a condominium developer and association through all phases of condominium development and management; and the representation of a real estate development company in connection with its lease and development of a Portland hotel.

Immigration Law

Citizenship and Naturalization
Green Cards
Business Immigration
Joe also maintains an active business immigration practice. He assists employers in obtaining nonimmigrant visas for their foreign employees, including L-1A, L-1B, H-1B, R-1, and TN work authorization. Joe also has experience with employment-based permanent resident (“green card”) applications and applications for naturalization (U.S. citizenship). He advises employers on the recruitment and hiring of foreign workers and cross-border travel issues.

Health Law

Personal Injury
John Hobson’s cross-disciplinary practice includes commercial litigation, complex products liability litigation, and personal injury litigation. He has an extensive trial practice representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Hobson also writes, lectures, and practices extensively in the area of construction law.
Medical Malpractice
Medicaid Planning
Disability Discrimination
Successfully defended an employer before the Maine Human Rights Commission on a claim of disability discrimination brought by a former employee. The Maine Human Rights issued a finding of “no reasonable grounds” to believe that employer discriminated against the employee.

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
Attorneys in Perkins Thompson’s Blockchain and Digital Assets Practice Area work with a variety of legal matters involving blockchain technologies, cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital assets. This interdisciplinary practice includes attorneys from our Banking and Financial Services, Trust and Estate Law, Intellectual Property and Technology and Business and Corporate practice groups.
Wills
Advise clients regarding the ever-changing tax and estate laws, their effects on the client’s current estate plan, and assist clients in revising their current wills and trusts
Trusts
Representing and collaborating with nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations and with nonprofit affiliates of for-profit clients in the fulfillment of their missions has been a focus of Perkins Thompson’s practice throughout its long presence in the Portland community. Our clients include the full range of charitable and similar organizations and entities, such as providers of housing and services to older adults, educational institutions, health and social service providers, charitable trusts, and private foundations and private operating foundations. We can act as outside “general counsel” to these organizations and entities, assisting them with all manner of issues arising in their formation, operations, governance and compliance, or if it better suits the organization and its budget, assist with particular issues when requested. In all cases, we keep the organization’s mission at the forefront.
Power of Attorney
What is a Durable Power of Attorney: A power of attorney is a document in which one person, the “principal”, appoints another person, the “agent”, to act on his or…
Probate

Finance Law

Bankruptcy
Perkins Thompson has achieved a Tier 1 regional ranking by Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” 2018 in the areas of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights; Insolvency and Reorganization Law; Corporate Law; Banking, Finance and Bankruptcy Litigation; and Real Estate Law.
Foreclosure
We have extensive experience in documenting, analyzing, and enforcing both commercial and consumer mortgages, real estate title and title insurance evaluations and other real property issues, including lease assignments, workouts, loan modifications and foreclosures.
Tax Law
Perkins Thompson’s Tax Practice Group has a wealth of experience in representing its clients on a variety of tax issues. We regularly assist individuals, businesses, and trusts on a broad spectrum of federal and state tax issues, and pride ourselves on creating cost-effective and practical solutions to complex tax problems.

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