On July 2, 2025, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein vetoed Senate Bill 266, (“SB 266”) a Bill passed by the North Carolina General Assembly on June 23, 2025. Among other things, SB 266 sought to eliminate the interim...more
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The U.S. federal government, through the United States General Services Administration (GSA), is the largest tenant in the country, currently leasing approximately 150 million square feet of office space and...more
2/10/2025
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Commercial Leases ,
Contract Terms ,
Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ,
Federal Contractors ,
General Services Administration (GSA) ,
Government Agencies ,
Landlords ,
Property Owners ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Risk Management ,
Termination
Kilpatrick’s John Livingston recently presented “An In-House Counsel’s Guide to Corporate Energy Procurement and Pathways to Meet Sustainability Goals” at the firm’s annual In- House Counsel Summit in Raleigh. Mr. Livingston...more
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Governor Brian Kemp recently signed House Bill 300 (the “Act”), which amends the Solar Power Free-Market Financing Act of 2015 by adding decommissioning requirements that must be...more
John Livingston, Kilpatrick’s Real Estate Investment and Development Team Chair, recently spoke at the firm’s inaugural “In-House Counsel Summit” in Durham, North Carolina. This full-day event featured multi-practice CLE...more
Kilpatrick’s John Livingston recently spoke at “The 2023 Appalachian Clean Energy CLE Workshop” where he led a panel discussing recent legislative updates to the decommissioning requirements in North Carolina for utility...more
Kilpatrick’s John Livingston recently spoke at “The 2023 Appalachian Clean Energy CLE Workshop” where he led a panel discussing recent legislative updates to the decommissioning requirements in North Carolina for utility...more
As we predicted, North Carolina’s House Bill 130 became law on midnight, June 24, 2023, as a result of Governor Roy Cooper electing not to take action on the ratified house bill. Ben Smith highlights the important facts of...more
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North Carolina’s General Assembly enacted significant two-pronged legislation that restricts the ability of municipalities to regulate the use of energy and places new statewide requirements on decommissioning...more
On June 6, 2022, President Biden took executive action to pause antidumping and countervailing import duties on solar cells and modules from countries currently the subject of a circumvention inquiry (Inquiry) by the...more
On April 1, 2022, the International Trade Administration (“ITA”) of the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Commerce”) published notice of a circumvention inquiry (“Inquiry”) that could materially increase the cost of certain solar...more
On January 29, 2021, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Department of Health and Human Services (“CDC”) issued Order Under Section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264) and 42 Code of Federal...more
On September 4, 2020, the Center For Disease Control (the “CDC”) issued a broad, nationwide, moratorium on residential evictions on the basis that it is an effort to prevent further spread of the COVID-19 virus. The order ...more
On May 30, 2020, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper issued Executive Order No. 142 extending prohibitions preventing landlords from evicting residential tenants, evicting commercial tenants for payment defaults caused by the...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in shuttered retail spaces and virtually empty office buildings as most employees worked remotely for a substantial period of time. In addition, a slew of new safety regulations are being...more
On December 19, 2019, the Treasury Department released the final regulations implementing the opportunity zone provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. These regulations clarified and expanded proposed regulations issued...more
On April 17, 2019, the Treasury Department issued a second round of proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) addressing investments in Opportunity Zones under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The first round of...more
4/26/2019
/ Capital Gains ,
Community Development ,
Economic Development ,
Investment Funds ,
Opportunity Zones ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Qualified Opportunity Funds ,
Real Estate Investments ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deferral ,
Tax Planning ,
U.S. Treasury
On December 22, 2017, President Donald Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”), which contained a potentially lucrative tax incentive program (the “Opportunity Zone Program”) to encourage long-term...more
11/28/2018
/ Capital Gains ,
Community Development ,
Economic Development ,
Investment Funds ,
Low-Income Issues ,
Opportunity Zones ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Qualified Opportunity Funds ,
Real Estate Development ,
Real Estate Investments ,
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ,
Tax Deferral ,
Tax Planning