Practice Focus
Kim Butler assists clients with business and commercial issues, providing guidance to both new and established clients across the spectrum of business issues, including business formation, operational matters, contracting, equity and debt financing, succession planning, and mergers and acquisitions. Kim’s practice also involves commercial real estate work, including property acquisition and sale, due diligence, land-use permitting and leasing. Kim represents individuals and businesses throughout New Hampshire and Vermont, as well as national clients.
Significant Matters
Kim assisted a group of investors with the formation of an L3C (Low-profit Limited Liability Company) to rescue a Pulitzer-Prize-winning California weekly newspaper that was on the verge of collapse under the pressures of the challenging economic climate for print media. Authorized and formed under Vermont law, the L3C is able to obtain funding from grants and other non-profit sources in addition to traditional commercial sources to continue the mission of educating the community and contributing to the field of journalism. These alternative funding sources are not generally available under traditional for-profit newspaper ownership structures.
Kim represented a key employee group in acquiring and financing a former International Paper mill operation. She also represented a specialty foods producer in a stock sale transaction to B&G Foods. Kim represented the Vermont-based American subsidiary of an international manufacturing company in connection with its debt restructuring. She also has worked on a number of hospitality property transactions.
Kim has worked with ski area owners on numerous development matters. For example, on behalf of a national development company, she handled the acquisition of over 1,000 acres of property for inclusion in a mixed-use commercial real estate development, which included a Vermont ski resort. Kim also is involved with local and state project permitting for this development.
Professional Activities
Kim serves as vice chair of the Vermont Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board and is treasurer of the Caledonia County (Vermont) Bar Association. She is a fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys.
Kim was a law clerk for the Vermont Supreme Court’s Honorable John A. Dooley, III from 1993 to 1994.
Community Involvement
Kim is currently vice president of the board of Affordable Housing, Education and Development, Inc. (AHEAD) of Littleton, N.H., director and president-elect of the Littleton Rotary Club and a founding director of the Littleton Consumer Cooperative Society, Inc.
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