Beth A. Smith

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

Beth has an eye for the big picture and the details. A diligent, high-energy member of the real estate team, Beth works tirelessly to help her clients find cost-effective and practical solutions to a variety of commercial and residential real estate challenges. Clients love the care, attention, and depth of knowledge that Beth brings to every piece of work, whether large or small. Relentless, cool under pressure, and someone you just want to be around, Beth is the complete real estate lawyer.

Beth is widely regarded by her clients and peers as one of the most knowledgeable renewable energy attorneys in New England and beyond, routinely acting as lead and local real estate counsel on complex energy transactions at all stages of the project life cycle. She has extensive experience in utility-scale and distributed generation wind, solar, hydroelectric, natural gas, hydrogen, and biomass transactions, including established and emerging energy storage technologies. Beth assists clients with all aspects of project development and due diligence, including debt and equity financing, title, site control, construction, interconnection, and transmission. Beth also advises electric vehicle (EV) charging station developers, operators, and investors in the pursuit of strategic electrification initiatives and incentives, including the development and financing of new EV charging facilities. An undergraduate physical chemistry major who understands the science behind renewable energy generation and distribution, Beth has the technical expertise to integrate seamlessly with each client’s project team.

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

• Commercial and residential purchase and sale transactions and leasing (including office, retail, industrial, mixed-use, restaurant, brewery, and manufactured housing projects)
• Subdivision and condominium development
• Representing educational institutions, municipalities, and non-profits
• Charitable transfers
• Commercial lending (including FAME, MSHA, and SBA-guaranteed loans)
• Tax credit and tax increment financing
• Municipal land use
• Title matters
• Settling boundary disputes

In her former life, Beth was:

• Judicial Intern to the Honorable Joseph N. Laplante of the US District Court for the District of New Hampshire
• Judicial Intern to the Honorable James P. Bassett of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire
• Consultant in the public utilities sector

When Beth isn’t working, she is…

Working pro bono asylum cases in collaboration with the Immigration Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP), helping Maine’s immigrants to keep their families together and become proud U.S. citizens. Otherwise, she’s outpacing other runners in Falmouth, Maine; Beth is a lifelong runner who qualified for the Olympic trials in the 400-meter hurdles and ran the anchor leg of Dartmouth’s school record-breaking 4×400 relay team. When she’s not wearing her running shoes, Beth enjoys hosting elaborate teddy bear tea parties for her three young girls, puttering around the yard, and searching for the best tacos in Maine.