Energy

Representative Experience

• Representing an electric utility in the construction, development and financing of a natural gas-fired peaking power plant, including joint ownership, site acquisition, permitting, operation and maintenance, interconnection, and fuel supply arrangements.
• Representing an electric utility in the acquisition and syndicated financing of an interest in another utility and coal-fired baseload power plants.
• Representing an investor in an ethanol production facility.
• Assisting in developing a financial structure for, and representing client investment in, an operating company for the development of biodiesel from waste grease.
• Representing a wind developer in connection with an equity investment by a leading private equity firm.
• Advising on and assisting with documentation of a loan agreement and an option agreement to purchase an operating biomass facility.
• Preparing a placement memorandum for a private equity venture capital investment in a biomass technology company.
• Advising developers of an innovative system for processing and converting landfill gas into natural gas capable of local energy generation or resale.
• Advising on liability stemming from Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)-licensed operations, including liability relating to low-level radioactive waste and NRC and state requirements for the handling, storage and disposal of radioactive materials.
• Advising a utility holding company on the acquisition of geothermal assets.
• Assisting an electric utility transmission provider with multiple revisions to its open access transmission tariff in compliance with successive FERC rulemaking orders.
• Submitting and prosecuting a complaint by a generation and transmission electric cooperative to eliminate duplicative ancillary service charges under RTO tariffs.
• Filing notifications of holding company status and exemption/waiver notifications for electric utility and electric cooperative clients under the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005.
• Submitting a renewable energy and energy efficiency plan for a municipal electric utility in compliance with state renewable portfolio standards legislation.
• Assisting a generation and transmission cooperative and its distribution cooperative members in obtaining complementary waivers of purchase and sale obligations under FERC’s regulations concerning qualifying facilities.
• Assisting in obtaining FERC certificates for a dedicated natural gas pipeline to serve a utility generating station.
• Representing electric distribution cooperatives in addressing territorial law matters, including litigation regarding such matters before state utility commissions.
• Advising and representing a financial entity concerning proposed onsite cogeneration projects to be installed throughout Mexico and financed by securitization of agreements between the developer, a Mexican energy services company and the host governmental facilities.
• Counseling a multinational consumer products manufacturer on the nonrecourse project financing of an industrial waste to energy facility, including the amended and restated bond purchase and guaranty term loan facility.