Energy
When energy matters
Nelson Mullins’ energy attorneys provide clients with a broad array of skills and experience, market knowledge, regulatory understanding, and broad industry relationships.
- Firm attorneys have represented energy clients on energy transactions, energy regulatory matters, and energy policy throughout the United States.
- Team includes former U.S. Ambassador to Canada and prior in-house counsel for publicly traded energy efficiency company.
- Counsel on traditional and alternative energy deals, including solar, biomass, and renewable fuels.
Energy counsel for clients across spectrum of matters
- Federal, state and local tax structures and incentives
- Energy transactional matters
- Permitting and environmental compliance
- State utilities commission energy regulatory matters
- Commercial disputes involving project development
- Emerging market opportunities such as energy storage
Multi-disciplinary team brings practical and balanced perspectives
- Debt and equity finance attorneys
- Energy M&A attorneys
- Energy regulatory lawyers practicing before state utilities commissions
- Environmental regulatory attorneys
- Real estate, finance, and tax counsel
- Litigators
Representing clients from lenders to private developers and energy companies to state-owned utilities
- State-owned utility
- Electric cooperatives
- Municipal electric providers
- Industrial users
- Lenders
- Solar developers and solar EPC entities
- Energy storage companies
- Energy efficiency entities
- Refinery and pipeline companies
- Biofuels companies
Advice, advocacy and deal work fueled by experience working with the energy industry
- Acquire and dispose of power projects – including single projects and large portfolios of projects
- Develop alternative energy and fossil-based projects – including solar, hydro, waste-to-energy and natural gas projects
- Identify, assess and address business risks through project due diligence – including PPA, EPC, IA and related project offtake agreement reviews
- Negotiate transactions and joint venture deals – working with a legal team with practical business sense and a deep understanding of and experience with energy finance
- Understand and navigate compliance issues associated with regulatory changes – including energy and capacity markets, Renewable Portfolio Standards, frequency regulation, demand response and other ancillary services
- In appearances before state utilities commissions – to address significant regulatory disputes
Our strengths include
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Practical business mindset
- Multi-disciplinary team
- Predictable fee structures help enable sound budget management
- Virtual deal team roles and experience
- Industry relationships with developers, lenders, utilities and other entities
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Practical business mindset
- Multi-disciplinary team
- Predictable fee structures help enable sound budget management
- Virtual deal team roles and experience
- Industry relationships with developers, lenders, utilities and other entities
- Alternative Energy
- Commercial Litigation & Business Torts
- Corporate & Securities
- Cybersecurity & Data Breach Response
- Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
- E-Discovery - Encompass
- E-Discovery & Information Governance
- Energy Efficiency
- Environmental - Transactions
- Environmental, Health & Safety
- Global Privacy & Security
- Government Relations Strategies
- Litigation
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Oil & Gas
- Power Generation
- Private Equity
- Tax
- Toxic Torts/Asbestos
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Practical business mindset
- Multi-disciplinary team
- Predictable fee structures help enable sound budget management
- Virtual deal team roles and experience
- Industry relationships with developers, lenders, utilities and other entities
Why Nelson Mullins?
- Practical business mindset
- Multi-disciplinary team
- Predictable fee structures help enable sound budget management
- Virtual deal team roles and experience
- Industry relationships with developers, lenders, utilities and other entities
Energy counsel for clients across spectrum of matters
- Federal, state and local tax structures and incentives
- Energy transactional matters
- Permitting and environmental compliance
- State utilities commission energy regulatory matters
- Commercial disputes involving project development
- Emerging market opportunities such as energy storage
Multi-disciplinary team brings practical and balanced perspectives
- Debt and equity finance attorneys
- Energy M&A attorneys
- Energy regulatory lawyers practicing before state utilities commissions
- Environmental regulatory attorneys
- Real estate, finance, and tax counsel
- Litigators
Representing clients from lenders to private developers and energy companies to state-owned utilities
- State-owned utility
- Electric cooperatives
- Municipal electric providers
- Industrial users
- Lenders
- Solar developers and solar EPC entities
- Energy storage companies
- Energy efficiency entities
- Refinery and pipeline companies
- Biofuels companies
Advice, advocacy and deal work fueled by experience working with the energy industry
- Acquire and dispose of power projects – including single projects and large portfolios of projects
- Develop alternative energy and fossil-based projects – including solar, hydro, waste-to-energy and natural gas projects
- Identify, assess and address business risks through project due diligence – including PPA, EPC, IA and related project offtake agreement reviews
- Negotiate transactions and joint venture deals – working with a legal team with practical business sense and a deep understanding of and experience with energy finance
- Understand and navigate compliance issues associated with regulatory changes – including energy and capacity markets, Renewable Portfolio Standards, frequency regulation, demand response and other ancillary services
- In appearances before state utilities commissions – to address significant regulatory disputes
- Practical business mindset
- Multi-disciplinary team
- Predictable fee structures help enable sound budget management
- Virtual deal team roles and experience
- Industry relationships with developers, lenders, utilities and other entities
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