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Balch & Bingham LLP

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Balch & Bingham LLP

Balch & Bingham LLP

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Firm Overview:

Balch & Bingham LLP is a corporate law firm recognized nationally for its genuine dedication to its clients, forward-thinking approach and ability to anticipate what is on the horizon. Since 1922, the firm has earned the respect and loyalty of clients by providing counsel in regulated industries, including energy, financial services and healthcare, as well as through its practices in business, environmental, government relations, labor and employment and litigation. Named one of America’s top trusted corporate law firms by Forbes, Balch & Bingham includes more than 200 attorneys who are known for leveraging collaboration, creativity and practicality to solve complex legal challenges. For more information, visit balch.com.

Managing Partner: M Stanford Blanton | [email protected]



Main Areas of Practice


Energy

Balch & Bingham attorneys include some of the industry’s leading practitioners, representing clients in matters involving all aspects of state and federal utility regulation, including rate and tariff filings, facility certifications, policy initiatives, administrative litigation and compliance. The firm also serves client needs in connection with the creation and operation of electric generating companies, the licensing, construction, purchase and sale of all types of generating assets, and the operation of electric transmission and distribution systems. Balch attorneys provide representation in the fuel procurement and transportation arena, develop LTSAs and other ancillary contractual arrangements supporting utility operations, and counsel on transactions involving the purchase or sale of generating capacity and energy. In addition, they have applied their regulatory expertise to assist clients in telecommunications matters involving pole attachment disputes as well as other issues.

Contact: Peter LeJeune | [email protected]



Environmental & Natural Resources

The Environmental and Natural Resources Practice at Balch & Bingham routinely navigates complex matters covering a wide range of federal, state and local environmental issues. Balch environmental attorneys are experienced in environmental permitting, water law, transactions, federal compliance, endangered species and environmental litigation. They are actively engaged in both state and federal legislative and rulemaking processes impacting environmental and natural resources issues.

Contacts: Grady Moore | [email protected]



Litigation

The firm’s litigation practice manages a wide variety of disputes and has extensive experience appearing in state and federal courthouses, before arbitration panels and throughout a series of industries across the country. The attorneys are experienced in almost every area of law from complex commercial litigation to personal injury and products liability. This group supports the litigation needs of the firm’s other practice groups, including energy, banking, healthcare, litigation, environmental, labor and commercial disputes.

Contact: Allen Estes | [email protected]



Financial Services

Balch & Bingham provides comprehensive legal services to banks, trust companies, insurance carriers, investment firms, broker-dealers and other financial institutions at the state, regional and national level. The firm represents developers, owners and mortgage lenders in commercial real estate development and has played a significant role in major real estate acquisition and sale transactions. The firm’s Creditors Rights and Bankruptcy Practice is devoted to creditors’ rights, debt restructuring, workouts, debt collection and bankruptcy.

Contact: John D Pickering | [email protected] , Jeremy L Retherford | [email protected]



Corporate & Commercial:

Balch & Bingham advises public and private companies, private equity funds and other institutional investors in a wide variety of corporate transactions, financings and corporate law matters, with a particular focus on highly regulated and/or transactionally intensive industries such as energy, banking, healthcare and real estate. The firm’s Corporate and Commercial Practice is full-service, and includes, antitrust, corporate, corporate finance, corporate governance, economic development and tax, estate planning, mergers and acquisitions, public finance, real estate capital markets, and intellectual property.

Contact: Tara Ellis | [email protected]

Labor & Employment:

Balch & Bingham’s Labor and Employment Practice offers comprehensive knowledge and a collaborative, multi-disciplinary approach to complex and routine employment matters. This group represents clients in administrative proceedings, elections, arbitrations and jury and non-jury trials in state and federal forums. Industries served include utility, construction, manufacturing, retail, banking and financial organizations as well as municipalities, school boards and universities.

Contact: Jeff Starling | [email protected]

Public Policy & Government Relations:

Clients turn to Balch’s Public Policy and Government Relations Practice for its decades of experience solving complex challenges that intersect with the public policy sector. The firm’s practice includes attorneys and government relationship professionals who are recognized for their extensive federal policy knowledge and experience. The firm has particular strategic advantages on energy, environmental and natural resources issues and related rulemaking proceedings.

Contact: Robin Laurie | [email protected]

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Alabama
Banking & Finance
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Banking & Finance
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Banking & Finance
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John Pickering
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John Pickering
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J Corbitt Tate
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J Corbitt Tate
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Up and Coming
Banking & Finance: Mainly Regulatory
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Debra Taylor Lewis
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Debra Taylor Lewis
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Bankruptcy/Restructuring
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Bankruptcy/Restructuring
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Bankruptcy/Restructuring
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Jeremy Retherford
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Jeremy Retherford
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Construction
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Construction
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Construction
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Chuck Burkhart
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Chuck Burkhart
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Conrad Anderson IV
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Conrad Anderson IV
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Up and Coming
Corporate/Commercial
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Corporate/Commercial
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Corporate/Commercial
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Timothy J Tracy
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Timothy J Tracy
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Chris Still
3
Chris Still
3
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Timothy Segers
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Timothy Segers
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Environment
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Environment
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Environment
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C Grady Moore III
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C Grady Moore III
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P Stephen Gidiere III
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P Stephen Gidiere III
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Steven A Burns
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Steven A Burns
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Julia Barber
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Julia Barber
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Thomas DeLawrence
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Thomas DeLawrence
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Labor & Employment
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Labor & Employment
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Labor & Employment
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