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Kate Millikan Joins Law Firm Babst Calland

Kate W. Millikan Kate W. Millikan recently joined law firm Babst Calland’s Harrisburg, Pa. office as senior counsel in the Corporate and Commercial Group. She focuses her practice on complex real estate transactions and development matters, including advising clients on the sale, acquisition, financing, and development or redevelopment of multi-unit residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use projects.

Ms. Millikan represents national and regional developers, builders, investors, and lenders in guiding diverse, large-scale, multi-faceted real estate development, from start to finish. She provides strategic guidance on financing, land use, zoning, and regulatory approvals, and has extensive experience navigating municipal processes, including securing Special Exceptions, Conditional Uses, and Variances. She regularly appears before municipal boards and commissions and works closely with local officials, solicitors, engineers, and other stakeholders to advance project approvals and resolve development-related issues.

Ms. Millikan has significant experience with Pennsylvania’s Municipalities Planning Code (MPC) and Subdivision and Land Development Ordinances (SALDO), including zoning analysis, ordinance amendments, and compliance strategies. She is also highly experienced in the statutory frameworks governing common interest communities, including the Pennsylvania Uniform Condominium Act and Uniform Planned Community Act.

In addition, she counsels clients on risk mitigation, complex title analysis, and due diligence matters and on complex real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financing, mergers, reorganizations, leasing, and development projects.

Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Millikan was of counsel with McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC. She is a 2015 graduate of The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law.

About Babst Calland
Babst Calland was founded in 1986 and has represented environmental, energy, and corporate clients since its inception. Our attorneys concentrate on current and emerging needs of clients in a variety of industry sectors, with focused legal practices in aerospace, aviation and airports; construction; corporate and commercial; data center development; emerging technologies; employment and labor; energy and natural resources; environmental; litigation; pipeline and hazardous materials safety; public sector; real estate, land use and zoning; and transportation technology and energy. Babst Calland has been ranked in the 2026 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list nationally in eight practice areas and regionally in 41 practice areas.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pa., Babst Calland also has offices in Charleston, W.Va., Harrisburg, Pa., Lakewood, N.Y., State College, Pa., and Washington, D.C., Babst Calland and its attorneys have been recognized and ranked by Best Lawyers© and Chambers and Partners USA Legal Guide. For more information, including attorney profiles, visit babstcalland.com.