Overview
Foley Hoag, a top law firm with offices in Boston, New York, Paris and Washington D.C., has a leading international energy legal practice. Though rooted in the Northeast – the owners of over 60% of all installed generation in New England look to us for advice on existing power plant compliance issues and capacity expansions – both our client base and experience are global. Sovereign states in Latin America have relied on us to create regulatory frameworks to enable foreign investment in their energy infrastructures.
Developers of solar and wind facilities have experienced success in project development and finance with our assistance not only in the Northeast but in Mid-Atlantic states and Latin America. Foley Hoag has provided energy regulatory, environmental and corporate due diligence for acquisitions of generating facilities not only in the Northeast but across the US and in Latin America, as well as environmental compliance and enforcement advice for generating facilities nationwide. Petroleum and natural gas companies also rely on our energy legal advice on working successfully with host countries and their citizens in countries such as Georgia and Turkey.
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For every engagement, we deliver our energy legal services using a core group of attorneys who focus on the energy industry, including corporate, regulatory, finance, tax, environmental, real estate, labor & employment and property valuation attorneys. This focused approach ensures that each client benefits from our energy industry experience and the efficiency that legal experience brings. We are also experienced in conducting multi-lingual transactions.
Our clients include major and emerging energy companies in the following sectors:
- Natural gas, oil and coal-fired generation
- Large hydroelectric generation including pumped-storage
- Small hydroelectric generation
- Natural gas distribution and transmission
- Electric transmission
- Photovoltaic generation (roof-top and ground-mounted including landfills)
- Wind generation
- Combined Heat and Power generation
- Energy-from-waste generation
- Anaerobic digestion generation
- Biomass generation
- Oil and natural gas extraction
- Advanced electricity storage
- LNG and advanced natural gas storage
Services provided to our energy clients include the following:
- Siting and licensing of new facilities and expansions
- Project finance
- EPC, O&M, PPA, REC, and SREC agreements
- Environmental compliance advice
- Environmental litigation and alternative dispute resolution
- Project company structuring and tax advice
- Mergers, acquisitions and related corporate, regulatory and environmental due diligence
- Labor and employment advice
- Property valuation negotiations, PILOT agreements and appeals
- Representation before regulatory agencies including public utility commissions, tax agencies, and licensing boards
- Advice to large energy users regarding micro-grid options, natural gas and electricity purchase agreements, and renewable energy development strategies
