Jacob Licht

Email - Jacob Licht
Phone - 303/382-2913

Jacob Licht joined Temkin Wielga & Hardt in 2010, and practices across the firm’s specialties in environmental, energy and natural resources law, including litigation, environmental compliance, permitting, and transactional work associated with property development.   Jacob advises companies on issues arising under many of the major federal and state environmental statutes and regulations, and related transactional issues.   His litigation work has included representation of companies as both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial, environmental and real estate disputes.  

Jacob brings to the firm a background in the real estate, forestry, renewable energy and carbon credit sectors, having worked in-house for private companies focused on project development and finance in these areas.  He provided counsel on legal and business issues through all project stages, including acquisition, development, permitting, entitlement, finance and entity-structuring processes.  Jacob also worked to form a carbon credit and renewable energy development and investment company, evaluating project opportunities along with domestic and international energy and climate change regulatory issues, including carbon offset markets and international cap-and-trade systems.

Prior to his in-house work, Jacob was an associate at a national law firm where he practiced real estate and environmental law.  He was also an extern to the Honorable Christina A. Snyder in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.  During law school, he interned with the Southern Environmental Law Center and analyzed Clean Air Act compliance and related land use policy issues.

A 2004 graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Jacob also obtained a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006, and was awarded the Eisner Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement.  Jacob received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, graduating cum laude in 2000.  Jacob is admitted to practice in Colorado and California.  He is also a LEED-accredited professional.

Representative matters include:

  • Advises a major natural resources company in international litigation proceedings involving securities divestiture and environmental compliance issues.

  • Assists a U.S.-based carbon credit developer on business formation, international land development and related strategy issues.

  • Advises a landowner on lease interpretation issues affecting land use rights.

  • Advises a mining company on property remediation and related liability issues.

  • Drafted motions and managed discovery in representing company against former employee in federal court litigation involving white collar crime issues, achieving favorable settlement.

  • Drafted pleadings and motions on behalf of landowner in state court litigation involving breach of lease claims, achieving favorable settlement.

  • Advised an alternative fuel company on compliance with chemical reporting and waste disposal laws applicable to nanotechnology substances.

  • Provided legal and business counsel for 10,000-acre real estate, forestry and carbon credit development project in Latin America, including a 250,000-acre carbon credit-financed preserve.

  • Represented property owner in a $55-million dollar commercial property purchase and sale dispute resulting in favorable arbitration results.

  • Advised real estate developer on re-zoning, permitting and other entitlement issues for a 3,000-acre LEED-certified new town development.