Collier is a member of Butler Snow's Public Finance and Environmental practice groups. He has extensive experience in public finance matters and environmental matters impacting a variety of private industries and public entities.
Overview
Collier is a member of Butler Snow's Public Finance and Environmental practice groups. He has extensive experience in public finance matters and environmental matters impacting a variety of private industries and public entities.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Extensive experience advising public entities on matters regarding governance, compliance and public financing options.
- Regularly represents issuers and underwriters with public financing transactions, including serving as bond, disclosure or underwriter’s counsel.
- Extensive experience providing advice to public and private entities and individuals regarding a variety of environmental matters.
- Experience helping clients resolve environmental permitting and compliance issues with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.
- Regularly represents a client in multiple solid waste facility transactions with both public and private entities, including addressing any related local, state or federal environmental matters that might arise.
- Regularly represents clients in real estate purchase, sale or lease transactions and other contractual matters in the solid waste and agricultural industries.
- Represents local governments and private companies in solid waste planning efforts and contractual negotiations.
- Represented Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) and other property owners in matters regarding federal and state permitting and compliance issues.
- Represented a CAFO, other agricultural facilities and other property owners in litigation involving alleged nuisance and water runoff issues and specific Clean Water Act violations.
Distinctions
- Super Lawyers®
- Georgia Rising Star, 2019-2024
Bar Admissions
- Georgia, 2011
- U.S. District Courts
- Georgia: Northern, Middle, Southern
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 11th Circuit
- Court of Appeals of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
Education
- Mercer University, J.D., 2011
- University of Georgia, B.S., Agriculture, 2007
Associations
- State Bar of Georgia
- Environmental Law Section
- Agricultural Law Section
- Chair, 2020-2021
- Macon Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- President, 2015-2016
- Young Lawyers Division
- American Agricultural Law Association
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- American Bar Association
- Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
Civic Involvement
- North Macon Presbyterian Church
- Macon Civic Club
- Leadership Macon, Class of 2019
- UGA College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Alumni Association
- Board Member, 2016-2018