Chris Hatch focuses his practice on commercial real estate transactions, guiding clients through acquisitions and sales, financing, leasing, land use, and complex project development. He brings particular depth in renewable energy and large-scale commercial projects, where strategic coordination and precision are critical to success.

Chris represents developers, lenders, investors, and buyers and sellers of commercial real estate, as well as commercial landlords and tenants. He also advises Tribal Nations across the United States on real estate acquisition and leasing matters. Known for his practical, business-oriented approach, Chris helps clients anticipate challenges, manage risk, and efficiently move transactions forward.

His experience includes serving as local counsel to tax equity investors on a $300 million renewable energy project, advising on an assisted living facility real estate transaction exceeding $25 million in value, and representing lenders in sophisticated commercial finance matters involving condominium developments, hotel acquisitions, and other types of commercial real estate development projects. He regularly supports regional solar developers in project acquisitions and real estate due diligence, including title, lease, and survey review.

Chris is skilled at drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, commercial real estate financing documents, and commercial leases, and has particular experience resolving complex title and survey issues. He is known for guiding transactions from inception to closing, coordinating the many moving parts required to bring deals to completion.

Chris began his career as a litigator at a firm in Virginia before returning to Maine in 2017, where he transitioned his practice to commercial real estate and joined a Bangor law firm. He graduated from Brigham Young University and received his law degree from the University of Connecticut, where he served as Articles Editor of the Connecticut Law Review. While in law school, he served as a judicial intern for United States Magistrate Judge Kenneth S. McHargh in the Northern District of Ohio.