Jon Iversen is a partner based in Stoel Rives’ Alaska office who provides tax planning and tax structuring advice and represents clients in tax audits and appeals. One of the most highly rated attorneys in the state in his field, Jon has extensive experience counseling clients on state and local tax audits and appeals, incentives, and financing associated with Alaska’s oil and gas production tax credits. Jon also counsels national and international companies regarding economic development opportunities in the region, including unique issues presented by the Arctic.

Veronica Keithley specializes in helping clients wade through the murky waters of environmental regulation for NPDES permitting, water quality, stormwater, wastewater, and wetlands. Having extensive skills in finding practical legal solutions to complex environmental matters, she advises clients on environmental permitting and regulatory compliance, and defends clients in enforcement proceedings and litigation, including citizen suits under the Clean Water Act.

Eric Martin‘s practice focuses on transactions and development of subsurface natural resources and renewable fuels, such as renewable natural gas (RNG). He helps clients buy, lease, and sell subsurface natural resources; develop renewable fuel projects; obtain financing; permit projects at the federal, state, and local levels; and resolve disputes.

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Mike Mills is an experienced environmental attorney who represents his clients in complex regulatory, compliance and litigation matters. His scientific background in environmental toxicology, as well as his contacts within California’s state regulatory agencies, make him ideally suited to provide effective and practical solutions to environmental, regulatory and sustainability challenges that his clients confront.

Willa Perlmutter chair of Stoel Rives’ OSHA group and co-chair of the firm’s mining group, has more than 40 years of experience as a litigator, focusing for the last 25 on defending mine operators across all sectors of the industry in administrative enforcement proceedings brought by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) for alleged violations of the Mine Act.

Andrew Pieper develops and executes cost-effective trial strategies that leverage his client’s strengths to achieve the best possible results. Andy’s an experienced, first-chair trial attorney who applies his skills no matter how a dispute arises. He’s also a skilled appellate advocate and has secured successful results at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Minnesota Court of Appeals, and the Minnesota Supreme Court.

Allison Smith focuses her practice in environmental and energy law. Her experience includes CEQA and land use litigation, conducting environmental due diligence, and permitting solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and gas-fired energy facilities. Allison also counsels companies on federal and state air quality and greenhouse gas regulations.

Ryan Steen focuses his practice on environmental litigation and regulatory counseling and has extensive experience litigating high-stakes natural resources disputes, particularly those involving claims asserted under the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Magnuson-Stevens Act, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.