Sigrid R. Waggener

Sigrid Waggener is a partner in the firm’s land use and energy practice. She focuses her practice on energy development, infrastructure development, and large-scale commercial development and redevelopment. Sigrid has extensive experience with respect to (1) advising on compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA); (2) representing energy producers, national retailers and a wide range of developer entities in all phases of the land use permitting process; and (3) defending the issuance of land use permits when those permits are legally challenged. She also regularly handles related real estate matters, including site selection and acquisition due diligence, compliance with state and regional regulatory controls associated with energy development and cross-jurisdictional development, and project risk management.

Sigrid also routinely handles a wide variety of litigation matters arising from the land use development process. She has acted as lead defense counsel for her clients in numerous writ proceedings alleging violations of CEQA and land development regulations.