Energy and Utility Law
For more than eight decades, Day Pitney lawyers have been nationally recognized for their energy and utility practices. Representing a diverse group of clients across the nation and around the world, we develop and implement innovative solutions to the complex challenges confronting the energy and utility industries. Our clients include debt and equity investors; electric, gas, and water utilities; generators, transmitters and marketers; and other energy and utility market participants.
Day Pitney's energy and utility lawyers can use the full range of the firm’s resources to meet the diverse needs of our clients. As needed, we assemble teams of lawyers with experience in energy regulation, mergers and acquisitions, corporate, tax, finance, antitrust, litigation, real estate, homeland security, and environmental law.
Our lawyers have an extensive knowledge of the energy and utility industries, the regulatory environment in which they operate, and their highly competitive landscapes. Our team includes lawyers who have held senior executive positions in the energy industry and in government. Members of the team serve or have served as general counsel to the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL), general counsel to a vertically integrated utility holding company, special nuclear general counsel to a utility during the time its plants were on the NRC's watch list, and general counsel for two nuclear plants during their decommissioning.
We assist our clients in navigating critical business issues that define the ever-changing energy and utility industries, including matters involving:
- Project development
- Financing
- Securities offerings
- State and federal regulation
- Litigation and alternative dispute resolution
- Mergers, consolidations, and divestitures
- Bankruptcy, reorganization, and restructuring
- Siting, environmental, and real estate
Day Pitney's clients have been at the forefront of both the retail and wholesale utility sectors. We have created new organizational vehicles to drive industry restructuring, such as ISOs, RTOs, stakeholder boards, and REC tracking systems. We have also assisted entities with major divestitures, corporate reorganizations, new product offerings, and related issues arising out of electric industry restructuring. Our clients have retained us to represent them before the FERC, NRC, EPA, and other state and federal regulatory bodies around the country. We routinely work with executive and legislative officials at the highest state and federal levels.