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Results through empowered advocacy.

Our Energy team offers the full array of transactional, regulatory, litigation and advisory services to clients spanning every segment of the energy space, from the extraction, marketing and delivery of fuel sources, to power generation and associated waste mitigation, to distribution and retail delivery, to the development, construction and closure of energy facilities. Clients turn to us for experienced guidance at each unique phase of project development.

We also assist energy companies and their customers in the development and execution of sophisticated financing, tax, renewable portfolio, fuel, siting and joint venture strategies, as well as in the maintenance and commercialization of their intellectual property and trade secret assets. And we represent energy industry participants in complex environmental and commercial litigation, and in a variety of permitting, enforcement and regulatory proceedings before state and federal agencies.

Our team also has a significant bench of experienced attorneys who regularly handle large, quick-turnaround due diligence and discovery projects for our energy clients.

Industry Team Contact

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Patrick R. Northam

Industry Team Leader

Louisville, KY

Industry-Focused Support

Representative Experience

Explore recent examples of our work to get a sense of who we are and what we're capable of.

Highlights

  • $3 billion divestiture of power generation assets and associated businesses and operations
  • $150 million divestiture of a natural gas trading business
  • $200 million acquisition of a natural gas sales and transportation business
  • $2 billion project financing of a power plant and syndication of loan to approximately 50 banks
  • Approximately $860 million sale of coal company assets
  • $250 million multi-tranche credit facility for a coal mining company
  • $25 million sale of coal mining assets
  • $24 million issuance of industrial revenue bonds in coal company financing
  • Coal lease and supply arrangement involving 55 million tons of coal reserves
  • $42 million sale and leaseback of coal mining property and processing facilities
  • $140 million acquisition of coal mining assets
  • $25 million sale of equity interests of coal mining companies
  • $11 million coal mining asset purchase and $30 million related financing
  • $94 million acquisition of coal mining assets
  • Approvals before state regulatory agencies involving:
    • Utility financings totaling more than $1 billion
    • Establishment of utility regulatory assets for accounting treatment totaling more than $200 million
    • Utility rate cases totaling more than $200 million
    • Utility merger approvals involving combined assets in the value of billions of dollars

Featured Insights

Our latest thinking on the legal issues impacting the energy industry.

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H. Joseph Hamm v The Lorain Coal & Dock Company: What Happens to Property of a Dissolved Compan...

April 12, 2022 | Publications

Under Ohio’s Dormant Mineral Act (DMA), what happens when the “holder” of a severed mineral in...

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Challenges Ahead For U.S. Generator Interconnection Process

April 6, 2022 | Publications

This article was originally published in Law360’s Expert Analysis. PJM Interconnection, Inc. (...

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West Virginia Legislature Passes Multiple Bills Impacting Oil and Gas Industry

March 31, 2022 | Publications

The recently concluded 2022 Regular Session of the West Virginia Legislature addressed a number of i...

Ohio Supreme Court Gives a Thumbs Up to Fonzi v. Brown

March 30, 2022 | Publications

On July 8, 2020, we reported on the Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals decision in Fonzi v. Brow...

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Peppertree II: Ohio Supreme Court Holds Recorded Will Not a Title Transaction Under the Marketable T...

March 25, 2022 | Publications

In Peppertree Farms, L.L.C. v. Thonen, 2022-Ohio-395 (“Peppertree I”), the Ohio Supreme Court he...

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Peppertree Farms, L.L.C. v. Thonen: Ohio’s High Court Classifies Unaccrued Royalties as Real Prope...

March 3, 2022 | Publications

In its February 15, 2022, Memorandum Opinion,[1] the Supreme Court of Ohio revisited pre-1925 deed i...