Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba is pleased to have been selected to author content for the 2026 Chambers and Partners Trends & Developments Global Practice Guide highlighting Business Law in Pennsylvania. Specifically, the firm’s Energy & Infrastructure team provided insights on ongoing and future development opportunities in the Commonwealth.
“We’re proud to have contributed to the 2026 Chambers and Partners Doing Business in Pennsylvania Global Practice Guide,” said Erich Schock, Managing Shareholder. “Chambers is one of the legal industry’s most respected publications. The Guide provides business leaders, attorneys and investors with practical insights into the current legal and economic landscape, across jurisdictions; being part of it helps demonstrate our commitment to helping clients facilitating opportunities and navigating challenges across Pennsylvania.”
As noted in Infrastructure and Industrial Opportunities: Pennsylvania’s Next Development Cycle, PA “has location, energy, water, industrial history, transportation, workforce and redevelopment capacity. It also has aging infrastructure, local land use variation, power delivery constraints, warehouse fatigue in some communities, water and stormwater pressure, and a public approval process that can become contested. The better approach is to organize the work around the project’s actual sequence. Before site control, the team should know whether the use is allowed, whether utilities can serve it and whether access is feasible. Before closing, the team should understand easements, title, environmental conditions, public approvals and financing conditions. Before construction, the team should have a realistic path through permits, utility commitments, procurement and public improvements.”
“These projects do not move through one legal lane,” says Colin Keefe, Deputy Managing Shareholder. “A single development may address multiple legal issues including real estate, land use, energy, environmental, tax, finance, construction, utility, incentives and eminent domain simultaneously. Treating those as separate workstreams can create gaps in timing and risk allocation. We assembled our Energy & Infrastructure team to be able to offer developers and investors a collaborative approach with significant depth of experience to navigate a myriad of development challenges, notably in the Commonwealth. Not only do our attorneys work well together, but I believe Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba excels in working with other governing bodies and approval agencies to help our clients bring their projects to life.”
An example of this type of collaboration on a large scale project is FLB’s recent legal support of Eli Lilly’s $3.5B pharmaceutical manufacturing campus in Lehigh County. This project will create at least 850 permanent jobs and approximately 2,000 construction jobs. As mentioned in the article, “The important point is not only the size of the investment: it is the mix of factors behind the site decision, including industrial land, access, utilities, incentives, workforce development and a coordinated approval path.”
Previously, the inaugural Chambers Spotlight Pennsylvania 2026 Guide, which featured outstanding small and mid-sized law firms across the state, recognized the firm’s Corporate, Business & Banking and Real Estate teams. FLB was one of just 45 firms included in the Guide, and one of only two Lehigh Valley firms recognized as a market leader for commercial law services.
Read our full article in the Chambers’ Doing Business in Pennsylvania Guide.
Reach out to FLB’s Energy & Infrastructure attorneys for your next PA development project.
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