Damien Lyster

Practice Areas

Damien Lyster is a partner in the Energy Regulatory Practice Group in the Houston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Damien represents companies in the energy industry in transactional and regulatory matters. He has advised clients on numerous transactional and state and federal regulatory issues related to investments in and the sale or acquisition of assets and entities in the natural gas, oil and conventional and renewable electric power industries. He has counseled clients with respect to the purchase and sale of commodities such as:

*hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable natural gas, traditional natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons;

*power sales and marketing;

*the transportation and sequestration of carbon dioxide, the production, gathering, transportation, terminaling and storage of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons.

Damien has experience representing pipeline and storage companies and shippers in negotiating commercial agreements and pursuing applicable authorizations from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Texas Railroad Commission. He has worked with midstream and exploration and production companies in drafting and negotiating gathering, processing and transportation agreements. In addition, he works on matters involving FERC-regulated wholesale power market participants in regulatory and compliance matters. He has represented clients in administrative litigation before FERC, in FERC enforcement investigations, and in ratemaking proceedings before FERC and the Texas Railroad Commission. He has represented a range of clients, including gas and liquids transmission providers, owners of electric generation and power marketers before the Department of State, Department of Energy and FERC.

Personal

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2008 (Managing Board, Virginia Law Review; Dillard Scholar)

University of Iowa, B.A., Economics, Russian, and Global Studies with distinction and with honors, 2003