Drew helps for-profit and non-profit businesses and municipalities navigate challenging business and transactional legal issues by providing thoughtful and attentive legal representation. Drew collaborates with his clients to advance their goals in an efficient and timely manner. He strives to provide the highest level of service to each of his clients in all facets of his practice, whether he is managing a large and complex transaction or advising a small business on a discrete legal issue.
Drew’s commercial real estate practice focuses on affordable housing, community development and historic rehabilitation projects. He helps clients buy, sell, and renovate commercial properties using conventional bank financing, tax credits (such as low income housing tax credits and new markets tax credits), and less conventional project funding such as crowdfunding and the opportunity zone tax incentive. Drew additionally has extensive experience providing real estate and business law support for the development, acquisition, sale and financing of renewable energy projects.
Drew’s business clients rely on him for assistance with a wide range of business and transactional legal issues during all stages of an entity’s life cycle. He helps individuals interested in starting a business choose the entity type that best suits their needs and launch their ideas into an operating company, and works with established companies of all sizes to formulate and implement business strategies involving mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and commercial transactions. Recognizing that the myriad of legal issues affecting today’s businesses can be confusing and at times overwhelming, Drew works closely with his clients to identify risk areas and to develop practical and cost-effective strategies for addressing them, while along the way explaining relevant legal concepts in a digestible fashion.
Before joining the firm in 2014, Drew worked in prestigious law firms both here in Burlington and in Boston, as a business law attorney, and clerked for Justice John Dooley of the Vermont Supreme Court. Drew lives in the Middlebury area with his wife and three children. He enjoys spending his free time playing and listening to Scandinavian folk tunes, and implementing Section 2 of Vermont Act No. 15 of 1999.
