Energy: Oil & Gas (Regulatory & Litigation)

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Provided by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Our energy team includes several of the nation’s foremost experts in U.S. energy regulatory matters, including federal regulation of the electric and natural gas industries. Our legal guidance in energy regulation ranges from general public policy counseling to practical compliance strategies regarding complex and interrelated energy statutes, regulations and policies. We represent interstate and intrastate natural gas pipelines and storage companies, oil and petroleum products pipelines, regional transmission organizations , independent power producers, developers of wind, solar and gas-fired generation, power marketers, and commercial class electric customers, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”), state utility commissions and appellate courts. We advise and represent energy industry participants regarding tariff‐related issues, natural gas pipeline certificates of public convenience and necessity, Department of Energy export and import authorizations, FERC market‐based rate authorizations, compliance with energy market rules and regulations, standards of conduct, interconnection issues, rate cases and purchases and sales of FERC-jurisdictional energy facilities. We counsel clients not just on an individual statute, but (when requested) across multiple statutes and industries (e.g., FERC and bankruptcy proceedings; Federal Power Act and Natural Gas Act interaction).