Meredith Ellen Carpenter

Practice Details

• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Represented a Pennsylvania-based real estate fund manager in its sale of an 11-story, 193,998 square-foot, Class-A suburban Texas office building to a commercial real estate manager
  the property is mixed-use with retail
  office space
  an adjacent parking garage.
  Represented an American petroleum
  petrochemical manufacturer in obtaining l
  rights to implement a $4 billion natural gas liquids pipeline project in Pennsylvania.
  Represented a publicly traded realty trust (REIT) in connection with a l
  use
  development application to redevelop a 26 acre site improved with a laboratory facility into a 474,600 square-foot office
  innovation campus, which included an underground parking garage with over 1600 spaces.
  Assisting the team representing Kaiserman Company, Inc. in the sale of controlling interests in,
  the recapitalization of, real estate partnerships owning five commercial properties, including The Bourse, with 700,000 square feet in Philadelphia adjacent to Independence National Historic Park.
  Hammer v. McDonald, Case No. 13-2263 (USCAVC 2015): Obtained requested relief on behalf of a pro bono Vietnam War veteran in appeal of denial of benefits for service-connected hearing loss
  tinnitus.
  Represented the New Castle School of Trades in the development of a trade school in East Liverpool, Ohio through the use of Federal
  Ohio State New Markets Tax Credits
  Federal
  Ohio State Historic Tax Credits. PNC Bank was the investor in the Federal
  Ohio State New Markets Tax Credits
  the Federal
  Ohio State Historic Tax credits.
  Acting as co-counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in representing a reporter
  an animal rights group seeking access to Yellowstone National Park to observe
  report on the United States Park Service's population control efforts against the wild bison of Yellowstone.
  Represented a pro bono client in performing a constitutional analysis in the City of Monterey Park, California showing the unconstitutionality of a proposed ordinance which sought to require that business signs have modern Latin Alphabet (e.g., English) on their signs.