Energy

For more than a century, Morgan Lewis has played a leading role in representing domestic and international energy companies, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their strategic objectives.

The Energy Practice at Morgan Lewis represents clients in every major segment of the energy market – electrical, nuclear, oil and natural gas, renewable energy (including wind energy), and water. We provide a broad range of regulatory, transactional, and litigation services to major domestic and foreign energy companies, public utilities, financial institutions, private equity firms, independent power producers and generators, project developers, and Department of Energy contractors.

Our lawyers understand how energy markets work, and bring sophisticated and practical insights to the legal issues that confront our clients. We practice before the FERC, SEC, NRC, state public utility commissions, and other federal and state agencies.

• Our Electrical Energy Practice advises clients on the economic aspects of energy regulation, including investigations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, restructuring of generation and transmission assets, ratemaking, formation and regulation of transmission organizations, energy trading and marketing, and compliance with default service requirements.
   
• Our Nuclear Energy Practice is an industry leader in advising on critical issues for both current and future plants. We combine expertise in both the regulatory and financial aspects of the nuclear industry and advise clients on a daily basis in licensing, environmental, investigatory, and adjudicatory matters associated with current and future plant operation.
   
• Our Oil and Natural Gas Practice clients include independent producers, refiners and retailers, marketers and LNG importers, pipeline companies, and distribution companies. Our work includes representation in all aspects of FERC regulation and compliance and state regulatory issues, as well as assisting clients in a large number of acquisitions and dispositions of natural gas and oil pipeline assets.
   
• Our Renewable Energy Practice is a cross-disciplinary team of lawyers working with utilities, project developers, investors and entrepreneurs on renewable energy issues across the country, advising on renewable energy development and procurement, project finance, tax strategies, intellectual property protection, and environmental issues, including climate change.
   
• The Water Practice provides comprehensive representation to water utilities in all aspects of rate application, complaint, rulemaking and certificate proceedings before state public service commissions and related litigation before state courts. Morgan Lewis attorneys also have worked with clients in many of the largest water industry acquisitions, privatizations, and divestitures in recent years.
   
• Our Energy and Infrastructure Finance Practice combines decades of transactional experience, as well as industry and regional knowledge, with the firm’s global resources in mergers and acquisitions, project development, project financing, and related structured financing for energy projects throughout the United States and worldwide.
   
• Our Energy Litigation Practice handles high-stakes regulatory and commercial disputes in federal and state courts, government and internal investigations, and alternative dispute resolution, arbitration, and administrative agency proceedings.

Together we help clients thrive in a rapidly changing and growing energy industry through innovative solutions to emerging challenges and dedicated service.