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Erik Borgen, J©, MBA <br />ASSOCIare <br />Role: Project Manages' <br />Erik is a leader in the water resources space with over 12 years of experience <br />working with water rights, water transactions, and hydrology on high -impact <br />projects for corporate, nonprofit, foundation, and government agency clients <br />throughout the western United States. He brings a proven ability to lead efforts <br />in strategic planning, valuation, permitting, and due diligence for water rights <br />acquisition, water asset management, and mitigation banking programs. <br />Erik joined Landau Associates in November 2020, bringing a breadth of multi- <br />disciplinary experience. Prior to Landau, he practiced as an attorney with a <br />boutique law firm specializing in water rights, worked as a water rights consultant <br />at two economic consulting firms, and served as a project manager with a non- <br />profit organization that pioneered free market approaches to streamflow <br />restoration. <br />Streamflow Restoration <br />Kittitas County Water Bank Management; Kltiltas County, WA. Managing <br />Expertise <br />Attorney administering one of Washington's oldest water rights mitigation <br />Water Rights Acquisitions & <br />hanks on behalf of client. Managed and tracked 27 underlying senior water <br />Transactions <br />rights in state Trust Water Rights Program. Developed good faith estimates for <br />mitigation inquiries in several suitability areas including Yakima mainstem, <br />mitigation <br />Water Law & Policy <br />River, Tillman Creek, Swauk Creek, and Big Creek. Executed <br />Water Rights Valuation <br />groundwater mitigation agreements, permit applications, permit assignments, <br />MBA, Willamette University <br />requests for determination of water budget neutrality, declarations of covenant, <br />Strategic Planning <br />and groundwater mitigation certificates. Worked closely with Washington State <br />Project management <br />Department of Ecology (Ecology) staff at Central Region Office. <br />Streamflow Restoration <br />Water System Sale; Kittitas County, WA. Attorney providing strategic advice <br />and technical support to client selling a water system that included <br />infrastructure and underlying water rights. Services included working with a <br />Education <br />hydrogeolog€st to update a complex water use model, assigning existing permits <br />to new entity, and applying for new water rights to increase consumptive <br />3D, Willamette University <br />quantity of the water rights portfolio. Developed a water rights comparable <br />College of Law, 2004 <br />sales analysis to value underlying water rights for teat estate excise <br />MBA, Willamette University <br />tax purposes. <br />Atkinson Graduate School <br />Yakima Basin Water Transfer Market Assessment; Kittitas County, WA. Served <br />of Management, 2004 <br />as project manager in effort to research and analyze water transactions in the <br />AB, Geography, Dartmouth <br />Yakima Basin, with a focus on the Upper Yakima and Its tributaries in Kittitas <br />College, 1996 <br />County. Drafted technical report for client describing market activity of sales <br />and leases of water rights in terms of water volume transacted, frequency, and <br />unit price. Analysis broke down activity by market sector, including mitigation <br />Registration <br />banking. Developed absorption rate analysis for private and public (Kittitas <br />County) water banks. Assessed potential revenue generation strategies <br />Washington State Bar <br />for client. <br />Association: 2005, <br />No. 35896 <br />Teanaway River Water night Transactions; Kittitas County, WA. Served as <br />project manager executing several water rights sales and leases. Conducted all <br />phases of the acquisition process including negotiating deals, drafting and <br />executing purchase and sale agreements, gaining funder approval, closing, <br />conducting beneficial use analyses, and transferring to WA State Trust Water <br />Rights Program. <br />f <br />Kittitas County+,; A Water Banking Program Support <br />