Christopher Kane joined Adams and Reese in 2004 and practices in the areas of transportation and economic development, engaging regularly in the international and trade community of New Orleans.
He has gained extensive experience and contributed to firm knowledge regarding specialized tax credit programs, transportation and logistics legal issues and commercial and corporate litigation.
Christopher is currently assisting clients in economic development projects totaling more than $150 million and ranging from port infrastructure to industrial, retail, restaurant and residential developments throughout the city of New Orleans.
His significant contributions include:
Representing France Road Parkway Properties – Port of New Orleans Project: negotiating the sale of 27.5 acres of Port of New Orleans property to a transportation and logistics company and managing the creation of a $10 million financial structure, which included GO Zone bond financing levered with federal New Market Tax Credits. The financial structure yielded over $1.5 million in direct cost savings or direct equity into the client’s project, which includes a 150,000 square foot warehouse facility, 12-acre container depo facility and an imported granite distribution center.
Transportation Consultants, Inc. v. Poly-America GP, Inc., 2008 WL 4615715 (S.D. Tex 2008)(successfully argued and established by case law that a consignee has a legal duty to return a shipping container to the assigned trucking company within a “timely fashion,” supporting the critical legal position that trucking and logistics companies can recoup any per diem charges caused by the actions or inactions of the consignee or shipper).
Extensive experience assisting transportation clients with owner-operator agreements, rules circular agreements, bills of lading, cargo release agreements, cargo abandonment agreements, warehouse agreements, warehousemen liability limitation clauses and other related industry documents.
Christopher has also been involved in various recovery legal issues since the 2005 hurricanes. He co-founded a not-for-profit corporation designed to specifically assist small business recovery called Desire NOLA, which has been nominated for numerous service awards and has been recognized by many respected community leaders. During his leadership tenure, Desire NOLA contributed to over $1 million in economic impact in the New Orleans region.
Christopher is a Crowe Scholar from Loyola University Law School and also holds an M.B.A. from Christian Brothers University where he was recently awarded the Young Alumnus of the Year Award. During his free time, he likes to play trumpet and watch the Saints and Hornets. He is involved in his community and enjoys following politics.
Presentations
Taking Advantage of Available Government Funding, IFFCBANO Conference, Point Clear, Alabama, June 2010
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