Our energy practice is distinguished by its substantive scope and geographic reach. We practice in virtually every area of energy law, including corporate, financial, and regulatory. We offer our clients comprehensive service fully informed by the latest industry and legal developments. We are active throughout the world, including Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, West Africa, China, and Southeast Asia. We work in all sectors of the natural gas industry — upstream oil and gas, oil and natural gas pipelines, liquefied natural gas (LNG), gasification, storage, and local distribution companies. We also represent crude oil and petroleum products carriers, and their shippers. Additionally, we work in all areas of the electric power industry, including generation, transmission and distribution by both investor-owned utilities and electric cooperatives. We have extensive experience in renewable energy and in the oil industry. Our clients include private companies, consumers, and governments.

Members of the firm have advised in the development and financing of countless power projects. We serve as project and finance counsel for the largest pipeline in Latin America and also for the largest petrochemical project in Mexico. In China, we represent Sinopec, the largest petrochemical company in that country. As part of our regulatory practice in the United States, we recently obtained the largest single settlement ever before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). And, in Germany, we represented major coalitions of new entrants in opening the energy markets to competition and were able to enjoin the largest proposed energy merger in Europe under European Union rules.

We trace our energy practice roots to the 1920s. Since that time, many of our energy lawyers have moved between private practice and government. Others have joined our firm after serving in regulatory agencies or stewarding major energy policy initiatives.

Former Leadership Positions

• Mary Anne Sullivan, former general counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and former deputy general counsel for DOE's environment and nuclear programs
• Agnes Dover, former deputy general counsel for procurement and technology transfer at DOE
• Claudette Christian, former counsel at the Export-Import Bank
• Joe Bell, former assistant general counsel in the Federal Energy Administration (now part of DOE); former trial attorney with the Federal Power Commission; former special counsel to the Ministry of Finance, Poland; former general counsel to Citizens Energy Corporation; and current adviser to Sao Tome and Principe regarding Oil Revenue Management law
• Mary Anne Mason, former chair and vice chair of the Committee on Fuels and Energy, Section of Antitrust Law of the American Bar Association; former executive director of the United States Delegation to the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea and deputy director of the Office of Oceans Law and Policy at the U.S. Department of State; and current vice chair, Committee on Sherman Act, Section 2, of the American Bar Association's Section of Antitrust law
• John Stough, former chairman of the Federal Energy Bar Association’s Independent Power Production, Natural Gas Act Rate, and Accounting and Tax Developments committees
• Lee A. Alexander, former deputy chief of staff and former senior legal advisor at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; former senior attorney advisor and assistant to the director, Office of Proceedings at the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
• Rebecca W. Watson, former assistant secretary for land minerals management of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) overseeing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Mineral Management Service (MMS), and the Office of Surface Mining (OSM), which together manage over 35% of domestic energy, including oil, gas, coal, and renewable energy

• AEP Resources, Inc./American Electric Power Company Inc.
• AGL Resources Inc.
• Alaska Gasline Port Authority
• Aquila, Inc./Aquila Merchant Energy Partners
• AREVA
• Big Rivers Electric Corporation
• California Independent System Operator
• Chevron Pipe Line Company
• CLECO Corporation
• Constellation Energy
• Constellation Generation Group
• Dominion Resources, Inc. and many of its subsidiaries
• EnCana Corporation
• FPL Energy
• Gas Transmission Northwest Corporation
• Hitachi
• Iogen Energy
• KonaCarbon
• NAC International
• North Baja Pipeline LLC
• Peabody Energy Corporation
• Public Service Company of New Mexico
• RNK Capital
• Shaw Group
• Sinopec
• Sithe Global
• Southern California Edison Co.
• TransCanada PipeLines Limited
• The AES Corporation
• Wal-Mart
• Western Systems Coordination Council (now Western Electricity Coordinating Council or WECC)