Nancy joined Gray Plant Mooty in 1986 and is a principal practicing environmental law in the Business Advisory and Real Estate practice groups. She represents businesses, energy companies, and local governments on environmental and safety matters throughout the country.
Nancy represents clients in commercial, financing, and real estate transactions on a broad spectrum of regulatory issues, including environmental and worker safety matters. She also works on Brownfields projects, offers compliance advice, and defends against administrative enforcement actions. Nancy assists clients with audits, a variety of agency administrative proceedings, contaminated property issues, permitting, and environmental review proceedings.
Experience
- Represented lenders, borrowers, and investors on environmental aspects of various financing transactions. Examples include waste processing and disposal facilities, gaming resorts, automobile sales and service and auto body providers, and iron ore mining and processing facilities
- Represented a number of energy companies on the environmental aspects of sales and acquisitions of electrical generating facilities, energy development projects and pipelines, and on environmental compliance and enforcement matters
- Orchestrated the environmental issues related to numerous development projects involving contaminated property using tools such as insurance, liability assurances, grants, delisting, and bona fide purchaser agreements. Her experience includes the Park Nicollet Clinic expansion, one of the first developments under Minnesota’s Land Recycling Act, and a development on the Reilly Tar Federal Superfund Site
Publications
- “Recent Developments and Decisions in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Permitting,” coauthored with C. Harmoning and E. Laubach, National Business Institute’s Fundamentals of Water Law, March 2008
Presentations
- “The New Standard for Evaluating Vapor Risks,” 2008 Real Estate Law Conference, The Real Estate Communications Group and Minnesota Real Estate Journal
- “Environmental Implications of Business Law Transactions,” Minnesota Continuing Legal Education
- “Muddy Waters: The Judicial Shakedown of MPCA’s NPDES Permit Decisions,” Minnesota City Attorneys Annual Conference
Education
- William Mitchell College of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1984
- Carleton College, B.A., 1979
Professional Activities
- American Bar Association, Natural Resources and the Environment section
- Minnesota State Bar Association, Environmental Law section
- Hennepin County Bar Association
- Law clerk for the Honorable Robert G. Renner
U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota
Community Involvement
- Starlight Ice Dance Club, delegate to U.S. Figure Skating Governing Council and to Twin Cities Figure Skating Association
- Catalyst Clinic, pro bono attorney
- Hopkins Public Schools and Parade Figure Skating Club, volunteer