Laura Szabo
Overview
Laura Szabo is a counsel with Crowell & Moring's Energy Group. Laura's practice focuses on transactions and energy regulatory matters involving companies in the electric energy industry. She represents electric generators, marketers, utilities, customers, lenders, owners, investors, trade organizations, and governmental entities in transactions and regulatory proceedings involving the acquisition, sale, development, financing, and operation of energy companies and energy assets.
Career & Education
- Sacred Heart University, B.S., summa cum laude, 1985
- The George Washington University Law School, J.D., 1990
- Connecticut
- District of Columbia
- New York
Laura's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.01.21
New MBR Reporting Requirements Take Effect on April 1, 2021
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) new rules under Order No. 860 take effect on April 1, 2021, and will change the way market-based rate (MBR) filings are made. FERC’s aim is to create a relational database to contain MBR seller information that ultimately will allow, among other things, for the automatic generation of an appendix of relevant affiliated assets and indicative market power screens. The first focus will be for each MBR seller to make a baseline submission to FERC’s MBR Portal between April 1 and August 2, 2021.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 07.21.20
Client Alert | 2 min read | 03.20.20
FERC's COVID-19 Pandemic Response Efforts Eases Burdens on Regulated Entities
Client Alert | 3 min read | 10.06.17
Representative Matters
Transactional Matters
Laura advises clients on a wide range of commercial and corporate energy contracts in transactions involving the development and operation of energy projects or the acquisition or disposition of ownership interests in domestic and international energy assets or energy companies. Such contracts include asset purchase agreements, power purchase agreements, management and operation service contracts, fuel supply and transportation contracts, interconnection contracts, transmission contracts, lease agreements, cotenant contracts, company governance documents, and finance and equity documents. She has counseled clients and drafted agreements related to the development or acquisition of energy projects in the United States, Colombia, Bolivia, Panama, Peru, El Salvador, and Northern Ireland.
Regulatory Counseling
In addition, Laura advises project developers and owners, marketers, banks, hedge funds, utilities, and other investors on how to structure their ownership or investments in electric assets to comply with, mitigate, or avoid, federal and state utility regulation. She advises and assists companies with the preparation of regulatory filings related to the acquisition or disposition of energy assets, market-based rates, shared interconnection facilities, open access transmission tariffs, transmission access for wholesale and retail power sales, exempt wholesale generation status under the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA), qualifying facility status under the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act, exemptions from and compliance with regulation under the Federal Power Act (FPA) and PUHCA, and acquisitions of energy assets and securities under FPA. She also advises clients with respect to ongoing regulatory compliance.
Laura's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.01.21
New MBR Reporting Requirements Take Effect on April 1, 2021
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) new rules under Order No. 860 take effect on April 1, 2021, and will change the way market-based rate (MBR) filings are made. FERC’s aim is to create a relational database to contain MBR seller information that ultimately will allow, among other things, for the automatic generation of an appendix of relevant affiliated assets and indicative market power screens. The first focus will be for each MBR seller to make a baseline submission to FERC’s MBR Portal between April 1 and August 2, 2021.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 07.21.20
Client Alert | 2 min read | 03.20.20
FERC's COVID-19 Pandemic Response Efforts Eases Burdens on Regulated Entities
Client Alert | 3 min read | 10.06.17
Laura's Insights
Client Alert | 3 min read | 03.01.21
New MBR Reporting Requirements Take Effect on April 1, 2021
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) new rules under Order No. 860 take effect on April 1, 2021, and will change the way market-based rate (MBR) filings are made. FERC’s aim is to create a relational database to contain MBR seller information that ultimately will allow, among other things, for the automatic generation of an appendix of relevant affiliated assets and indicative market power screens. The first focus will be for each MBR seller to make a baseline submission to FERC’s MBR Portal between April 1 and August 2, 2021.
Client Alert | 5 min read | 07.21.20
Client Alert | 2 min read | 03.20.20
FERC's COVID-19 Pandemic Response Efforts Eases Burdens on Regulated Entities
Client Alert | 3 min read | 10.06.17