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Meet Pete, relentless problem solver who knows how to hit the bull’s-eye.

Peter J. Van Hemel

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207 228-7114 direct
207 774-1200 main
207 774-1127 facsimile

100 Middle Street
PO Box 9729
Portland, ME 04104-5029

MEMBER
Bernstein Shur Board of Directors

Chair
Real Estate Practice Group

PRACTICES & INDUSTRIES SERVED Energy
Real Estate
AWARDS
  • The Best Lawyers in America® 2025 (Ranked since 2013)
    Real Estate Law
  • Chambers USA 2024 – Real Estate Law, (15 years ranked)

 


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Van Hemel, Peter

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Here’s why you’ll enjoy working with him.

To say Pete is persistent is an understatement: He focuses all day, every day on bringing his real estate clients great results. And the greater the challenge and more complex the matter, the better. Case in point: After more than four years of intense, complicated work, involving multiple moving parts and players, Pete was able to help a client bring two large-scale renewable energy projects online in Maine.

Pete thrives on solving the seemingly unsolvable, and brings confidence, honesty, and incredible attention to detail to his practice. Whether you’re looking for help with commercial lease negotiations, wind energy and telecommunications development projects, transactional work, boundary disputes, or easement negotiations, Pete’s your man.

But that’s not all. Pete is also very experienced in:

  • Development, financing, and compliance of gaming facilities
  • Advising clients on a wide variety of conservation transactions

In his former life, Pete was:

  • Working for an advertising agency in Brussels
  • A paralegal for two national firms in the Boston area

When Pete isn’t working, he is…

Spending time with his three kids and practicing at the archery range. He also volunteers at his church parish and the Homeless Legal Aid Clinic, and provides French and Latin translation work on various pro bono asylum cases.

Background

Education
JD, Boston University School of Law, 2001, cum laude
BA, International Relations, College of William and Mary, 1995

Admitted to practice
State of Maine

Memberships

Maine State Bar Association