Honors + Affiliations
Chairman, Antitrust Committee, ABA Public Utility Law Section
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2003–2008)
Listed, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers (2006 & 2007)
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2006–2008)
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Washington, D.C.
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1111 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20004-2541
Phone: 202.739.5620
Fax: 202.739.3001
Floyd L. Norton, IV, is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Energy Practice. Mr. Norton's practice focuses on electric utility issues, with an emphasis on utility responses to competition. Mr. Norton has a broad background in electric utility market power issues and investigations, utility mergers and acquisitions, the negotiation of power contracts, and wholesale and transmission rates and services.
Mr. Norton has represented a number of electric utility clients in the areas of market pricing, mergers and industry restructuring, and investigations of electric trading and transmission access practices. He has advised several utilities on their development of regional transmission organizations (both ISO's and Transco's), on FERC's Standard Market Design initiative, or interconnection matters, and on the acquisition of divested generation facilities.
An active lecturer, Mr. Norton has spoken at numerous conferences on antitrust issues for utilities, asset divestitures, the wholesale service obligation of electric utilities, access to electric transmission and distribution lines, stranded investment, and independent power production.
Mr. Norton is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia.
Education
- University of Virginia School of Law, 1975, J.D.
- University of Virginia, 1972, B.A.