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YOUR PARTNER IN A GROWING INDUSTRY TIMBER & FOREST PRODUCTS LAW Alaska California Idaho Minnesota Oregon Utah Washington and Washington, D.C. www.stoel.com/forestproducts (800) 88-STOEL SERVING YOUR INDUSTRY “A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood….” — Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to the School Children of the United States, Arbor Day, April 15, 1907 The timber and forest products industry has remained a critical element of the U.S. and global economy through good times and challenging times. Today, maybe more than ever, the industry is evolving to meet the demands of a global marketplace. From new technologies and production challenges, to new products and fiber markets, to changing market demands and shifting regulatory landscapes—we work with our clients to meet these challenges, maximize opportunities and realize their business goals in a dynamic world. BUILDING ON OUR EXPERIENCE Our commitment to the timber and forest products “general counsel” to our clients, providing the full industry dates back to our own beginnings in 1907. suite of ongoing legal services required for complex Over the years, Stoel Rives has grown with the industry operations. In other cases, we bring our focused and developed one of the nation’s most experienced industry experience to specialized and often high- legal practices focused on timber and forest products stakes projects. clients. Stoel Rives’ timber and forest products industry team CLIENTS WE SERVE is cross-disciplinary, including veterans well known • Timberland owners and investors for their decades of service to the industry, lawyers • Lumber, panel, and pulp and with technical and forestry degrees and younger paper mills lawyers with already impressive track records. Like you, we take the long view and have built our practice • Integrated operations to last for decades. Our depth and understanding of • Industry trade associations industry issues allow us to work more efficiently than • Public and private REITs our competitors, which means that you get quick and reliable results without us “learning on your dime.” • Wood products manufacturers and distributors We understand your business operations and legal • Log, lumber and wood chip needs like few others can, leveraging generations of exporters experience to serve clients in virtually every corner of the industry. In many cases we serve as outside EXPERIENCE MAP & OFFICE LOCATIONS Seale Boise Salt Lake City 10 YEARS Minneapolis BY THE Portland NUMBERS Sacramento Over 100 $3,500,000,000 San Francisco industry Washington, San Diego D.C. clients served 100+ Anchorage Over A PARTNER IN GOOD TIMES $3.5B AND CHALLENGING TIMES in In good times and challenging times, we remain focused on timber and providing our clients with efficient, practical, solution-oriented timberland deals representation relevant to all aspects of their business. At Stoel closed Rives, we offer full-service solutions to help you achieve your + business objectives. More than 25 wood products facilities purchased Mergers & Acquisitions Finance We have extensive experience representing As finance counsel to many of our clients, or sold in 10 states/ both sellers and purchasers of entire forest we have experience with financing provinces products businesses; separate operating types common to the industry, including divisions, mills and facilities; and discrete traditional term loans and operating credit operating and timberlands assets. Our lines, as well as New Markets Tax Credit lawyers have represented clients in several loans, private note placements and rated 25+/10 of the largest timber and forest products timberland securitizations. transactions over the past several decades, including in the Pacific Northwest, Litigation Southeast and Upper Midwest. Our industry knowledge and extensive $2.6B+ experience in Endangered Species Act, Over $2.6B in financing Timberland Ownership Clean Water Act, and other environmental We advise clients regarding contracts and and natural resources litigation make transactions closed other legal matters relating to ownership us a top choice when industry practices Boise are challenged. Our litigation team also Sealeand operation of their timberlands, Salt Lake City represents clientsMinneapoli in a wides variety of trial including easements, road use and right- experience with both timberlands and court and appellate matters in commercial Vancouverof-way, WA agreements, boundary issues and renewable energy development, we litigation. have negotiated wind energy leases and agreements relating to logging and hauling facilitated biomass and biofuels project Poofrtland forest products . Energy developments on behalf of our industry Lake Tahoe Building on our firm’s substantial clients. Sacramento Washington, San Francisco D.C. San Diego Anchorage Intellectual Property Labor, Employment & Benefits We represent industry clients in patent and trademark matters, We provide counseling and dispute resolution services across including protection for product designs and marketing the spectrum of labor and employment law, and advise materials and providing specialized counsel on the treatment of employers on the design, implementation and administration of intellectual property assets in both routine and extraordinary all types of employee benefit plans and executive compensation transactions. arrangements. Environmental and Real Estate Development & Land Use Natural Resources Regulation We support our clients’ real estate development activities Our environmental and natural resources attorneys work with as transactional, real estate and land use counsel, including individual companies and forest products industry trade groups commercial leasing; boundary, subdivision and partition on state and federal regulatory matters, including compliance matters; and development projects seeking the “highest and best strategies, regulatory approvals and shaping the laws and use” of client lands. regulations that most impact the industry. ABOUT STOEL RIVES Stoel Rives LLP is a U.S. business law firm with more than 350 lawyers. Established in 1907, the firm operates from 10 offices in seven states and the District of Columbia. CONTACT Michelle Webberley Forestry Practice Liaison [email protected] (208) 387-4206 FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT OUR TIMBER AND FOREST PRODUCTS LAW TEAM, PLEASE VISIT: www.stoel.com/forestproducts STAY INFORMED WITH OUR PERIODIC EMAIL ALERTS: www.stoel.com/subscribe Alaska California Idaho Minnesota Oregon Utah Washington and Washington, D.C. www.stoel.com (800) 88-STOEL 070617.