Energy Law - Commercial Transactions
The Energy area has represented clients in the most sophisticated commercial transactions, where business objectives and regulatory requirements converge. Some of our more interesting transactions involved:
- The largest wholesale electric power customer of a federal power authority on restructuring its power supply contract.
- A multi-state utility in connection with the conversion of its underground natural gas storage facilities into assets that can be used to support interstate marketing activities.
- A large manufacturing and natural resource company on corporate and financial strategies to make the most efficient use of its electric and steam generation assets.
- Innovative agreements on behalf of utility clients for third-party management and optimization of their utility assets.
- A number of utilities in developing unregulated business organizations, consistent with federal and state regulatory requirements.
- Organizing and representing a cooperative of utilities formed for the purpose of maximizing efficiencies in their supply management and asset utilization.
- Negotiation and drafting of pipeline transportation and related agreements on behalf of the shipper on one of the largest natural gas pipelines in the world.