Energy: Nuclear (Regulatory & Litigation)

Balch & Bingham’s Energy attorneys represent utilities, nuclear plant owners and operators, independent power producers, renewable energy developers, generators, transmission owners, public power entities, private equity and infrastructure investors, energy market participants, data centers, and large industrial users in regulatory, transactional, litigation, and commercial matters.

Balch advises on nuclear plant development, NRC licensing and compliance, decommissioning and recommissioning, DOE spent fuel litigation, nuclear transactions, advanced reactor and SMR deployment, international trade and export controls, and transactions involving utility-scale solar, wind, battery storage, nuclear, fossil fuel, renewable fuel, and emerging clean energy technologies. The team handles project development, financing, M&A, PPAs, EPC agreements, O&M agreements, LTSAs, fuel contracts, interconnection agreements, environmental and carbon-free attributes, and data center power arrangements.

Balch’s regulatory and litigation work includes FERC, NRC, CFTC, FCC, RTO/ISO, and state utility commission matters, including rulemakings, rate cases, certifications, approvals, interconnection disputes, market design, NERC reliability, enforcement, investigations, appeals, and court litigation. Recent work includes nuclear development and restart projects, decommissioning transactions, battery storage, renewable acquisitions, data center power supply, transmission and interconnection matters.