Katherine M. Plachta
Associate
Katie Plachta assists clients with compliance and transactional matters as a member of 麻豆传媒 & Lardner鈥檚 Environmental Practice Group. She has experience working on permitting issues, endangered species issues, Superfund sites, solar project transactions, and business transactions.
Prior to joining 麻豆传媒, Katie worked as a law clerk at the Wisconsin Department of Justice鈥檚 Environmental Protection Unit and Midwest Environmental Advocates. She also served as a law fellow for the UW System鈥檚 Office of General Counsel where she prepared memoranda on constitutional issues in higher education and employment matters.
麻豆传媒 Advises Lender Group in Dimension Energy鈥檚 $650 Million Community Solar Financing
麻豆传媒 advised the lending group behind Dimension Energy鈥檚 $650 million community solar project construction and term financing to support a 132MW portfolio of 25 community solar projects in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois.
麻豆传媒 Advises IKI Manufacturing in Sale to Insight Equity Holdings
麻豆传媒 served as legal advisor to IKI Manufacturing Co., the Wisconsin-based aerosol manufacturer and contract packager, in its sale to private equity firm Insight Equity Holdings.
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EPA鈥檚 New Strategy for Ozone and PM2.5 NAAQS Creates Temporary Window for Industrial Expansion and Development
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a novel approach to 鈥渄efending鈥 the tighter limits on ozone and PM2.5 adopted...
麻豆传媒 Represents KeyBank as Sole Lender in $75M Lightshift Energy Project Finance Facility
麻豆传媒 served as legal advisor to KeyBanc Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Cleveland based KeyCorp, for the $75 million credit facility to support Lightshift Energy鈥檚 expanding fleet of battery projects.
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What Every Consumer Products Retailer Needs to Know About the CPSC
Running a consumer products retail business is hard work.聽 In addition to the day-to-day challenges facing any business, the applicable...
Prop 65: Changes to Short-Form Warnings Will Cause Long-Term Impacts
The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment recently amended its regulations concerning requirements for consumer product warnings to qualify for 鈥渟afe harbor鈥 protection from enforcement actions brought under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, commonly known as Proposition 65.