Elizabeth Leavy
Liz is an experienced government contracts attorney with tremendous depth of experience helping companies grow and maintain their presence in the federal, state, and local contracting and grant space through the procurement process and mergers and acquisitions.
Key Matters
Some of the experience represented below may have been handled at a previous firm.
- Advise recipient of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) OECD grant from inception, including advice of negotiation with DOE, budgeting, developing and implementing compliance program and procurement forms and policies, and providing daily advice
- Advise recipient of DOE grant for construction of a battery materials processing and manufacturing facility to develop and implement compliance program
- Advise recipient of DOE loan for construction of a lithium battery recycling plan facility to develop a Davis-Bacon Act compliance program, including managing flow down requirements to general contractor and subcontractors
- Assist multiple non-profit federal grant recipients with developing subrecipient and subcontractor template agreements, including all regulatory and contractual flow down requirements
- Assist subrecipient of a USAID grant to develop and implement internal compliance policies specific to travel restrictions
- Advise semiconductor manufacturing company on compliance with potential requirements under a grant awarded through the CHIPS Act
- Facilitated negotiations between a large railway company and the State of New Jersey to secure a subrecipient agreement under a federal block grant program
- Advised large telecom trade association on Build America Buy America Act requirements under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and assisted with negotiating waivers with the U.S. Department of Commerce