Practice Expertise

  • International Business
  • Real Estate
  • Acquisition and Disposition
  • Finance

Areas of Practice

  • Acquisition and Disposition
  • Finance
  • International Business
  • Real Estate

Profile

Janna Davydova‎ advises timber investment management organizations (TIMOs), regional timber companies, and a variety of other private and nonprofit forestland owners and operators regarding acquisitions, dispositions and management of timberlands and mill sites. She has worked on some of the most prominent forestland transactions of the last decade, involving millions of acres of timberlands throughout the United States. Drawing on her background in sustainable development, she has developed a particular focus on cutting-edge legal issues related to forest carbon transactions, conservation easements and sustainable forestry. ‎

An experienced real estate transactional attorney, Janna routinely handles transactions involving the purchase, sale, leasing and financing of commercial real property and agricultural and farm property. She also handles a variety of mining transactions.

Bar Admissions

  • Oregon 
  • Washington 

Education

  • Portland State University, International Business Certificate, with distinction (2000)
  • University of Washington School of Law, LL.M. in Sustainable International Development (2002); Pacific Rim and Policy Journal, LLM Affiliate Member
  • Khabarovsk State Academy of Economics and Law, LL.B. (2000)
  • University of Washington School of Law, Juris Doctor, with honors (2006); Washington Law Review, Articles Editor

Areas of Practice

  • Acquisition and Disposition
  • Finance
  • International Business
  • Real Estate

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Advised major TIMOs in buying and selling of timberlands throughout the United States.
  • Negotiated numerous road use and maintenance agreements, rights-of-way and easements, logging and hauling contracts, leases, access permits and licenses for various timberland owners in Oregon and Washington.
  • Documented loans secured by manufacturing facilities and products for a major forest products manufacturer.
  • Negotiated conservation easements for private landowners and land trusts.
  • Advised timberland owners on forest carbon transactions and alternative revenue stream transactions (e.g., highest and best use sales, wind, solar and other energy projects).




Articles

  • OP-ED: The Importance of a Balanced Approach to Writing
  • Dormant No More: Fracking Boom Causes States To Revisit Dormant Mineral Statutes
  • Dormant No More: Fracking Boom Causes States to Revist Dormant Mineral Statutes

Seminar

  • The West is Burning: A Private Screening & Discussion
  • 4th Annual Easements and Access Seminar
  • Fall Session: Access, Easements, Rights-Of-Way And Timber Trespass: What Every Forest Manager Needs To Know
  • Spring Session: Access, Easements, Rights-Of-Way And Timber Trespass: What Every Forest Manager Needs To Know

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