Overview

Jamie Jackson Hansen is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Denver office and a member of the firm's Construction Industry Practice Group. Ms. Hansen focuses her practice on domestic and international energy and infrastructure project development, construction and energy transactions, and international construction and energy dispute resolution matters.

Ms. Hansen's transactional experience includes preparing and negotiating engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements, owner's engineer agreements, engineering services agreements and equipment supply agreements for a range of project types, including industrial process, alternative fuels processing, battery storage and large-scale commercial solar power. She also has experience preparing and negotiating terminaling and transportation agreements for various petroleum products, as well as midstream asset joint venture agreements and documents related to entity formations, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and corporate finance.

Ms. Hansen's dispute resolution experience includes representing clients in international arbitrations involving construction disputes, as well as advising clients on claims evaluation and dispute avoidance.

During law school, Ms. Hansen interned for the Honorable Timothy Tymkovich in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, as well as for the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC). She also served as the casenote and comment editor for the University of Colorado Law Review.

Before her legal career, Ms. Hansen worked as a mechanical engineer in the electric power and manufacturing industries. She is a licensed professional engineer with experience in feasibility studies, design and construction of both traditional fossil fuel and renewable energy facilities, including natural gas, coal and solar power plants.

Representative Experience

  • Representing an international energy storage solutions provider in the negotiation of an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement for the construction of a solar power plant and battery storage facility in the Caribbean
  • Developed and negotiated Engineers Joint Contract Documents Committee (EJCDC) form agreements on behalf of an international pharmaceutical company for the EPC of domestic manufacturing facilities
  • Assisted an international manufacturer in the development and negotiation of technology licensing, engineering services, equipment supply and owner's engineer agreements for construction of a domestic ethanol production facility
  • Represented a developer in the negotiation of project agreements for the engineering design, equipment supply and construction of a biogas facility

  • Represented a battery storage manufacturer in the negotiation of equipment supply agreements for the sale of battery storage technology to utilities
  • Represented a developer in a joint venture transaction to fund the development of utility-scale renewable energy projects
  • Represented a solar developer in the negotiation of engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements for an aggregate of 550 megawatts (MW) of installed solar power generation facilities

  • Represented an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor against the owner in a $4 billion-plus International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration arising out of the construction of an infrastructure mega-project in Colombia
  • Represented an EPC contractor in an investor-state treaty dispute against a South American country before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)

  • Evaluated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other federal and state agency permitting and regulatory requirements for export from a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility
  • Drafted and reviewed natural gas trading compliance manuals and policies
  • Prepared the required petitions, tariff and notices to conduct an oil pipeline open season
  • Prepared filings and advised clients on compliance with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting requirements

  • Represented the acquiring financial institution in a $482 million bank acquisition

Credentials

Education
  • University of Colorado School of Law, J.D.
  • University of Colorado Denver, MBA
  • Colorado School of Mines, B.S., Mechanical Engineering
Bar Admissions/Licenses
  • Colorado
Honors & Awards
  • Order of the Coif
  • Excellence in Clinical Education Award, University of Colorado School of Law, Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic, Spring 2012
Spoken Languages
  • English
  • Spanish

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