Motieka & Audzevicius‘team provides legal services to the clients in connection with alternative energy projects and projects developing and utilizing new energy retrieval, production, generation, storage and transportation methods. Our attorneys represent developers, borrowers, lessors, lessees, lenders, constructors, equipment suppliers, governmental entities, utilities and other project participants.
Motieka & Audzevicius‘ attorneys assist to the clients in the assessment, development, revision and implementation of natural resource legislation and regulation. Our attorneys work to resolve legal issues with a broader perspective. The team prepares policy and position papers, drafts legislation, and formulates legislative strategies. We analyse new environmental legislation, regulations, cases, policies and trends, with a focus on relevant business opportunities and risks. However regulatory counseling and dispute resolution are central components of this sector's practice. We have experienced in representing of the clients in litigation and other dispute resolution proceedings,  construction project dispute resolution, land use permitting, zoning and comprehensive plan amendments, state and international tax advice, including tax analyses, fuel excise tax controversies, tax incentive negotiations, sales tax rulings and energy tax credits and cross-border transactions.
Natural resource matters pose unparalleled business, scientific, legal, and political issues. Natural resources includes land, wildlife, air, water and other resources which management is  regulated by statutes, common law, treaties, conventions, regulations and policies as well as society demands to be environmentally responsible. Moreover this industry is in a constant state of change. Only when all of these aspects are regulated together can a satisfactory resolution be achieved.