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Energy powers our world, making it a vital and complex industry in which to conduct business. Our experience and successes span the vast landscape. Our lawyers provide businesses, investors and lenders across the energy arena with pragmatic, actionable legal advice addressing the range of issues they confront. Our clients trust and depend on us to think through ideas at the outset and provide the value-added insight they need to be successful.

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Our practice in every area of the energy sector affords us a holistic perspective that is truly unique among law firms. Our team harnesses the experience and talent of lawyers and economists from numerous practice groups within the firm, including those with extensive experience in corporate finance, project finance, real estate, land use, environmental regulation, derivatives and commodities, taxation, labor, international trade regulation, dispute resolution and technology. 

The team, which features more than 140 lawyers in 15 offices worldwide, brings value to our clients in the following ways:

  • Oil and gas—Our highly diversified practice encompasses all types of transactional, regulatory and litigation matters. We advise oil and gas clients in each stage of exploration, development, production and distribution channel and the team represents clients in virtually every aspect of the energy industry. This includes upstream, midstream and downstream oil gas and power developers, oilfield service companies and natural gas pipelines and shippers. Read our Environmental and Energy Brief.
  • Alternative energy—We represent developers and financial institutions on many of the most significant renewable electric generation projects in the United States and around the world, and provide comprehensive advice on all aspects of those transactions, including with respect to tax matters. We also represent parties with the development of biofuel facilities. Our lawyers have extensive experience representing industry participants in public offerings and private placements, mergers and acquisitions, project financings and joint ventures, as well as the resolution of disputes arising out of these activities.
  • Power generation—Our lawyers counsel power generation and trading clients on regulatory, finance and tax issues, including, distributed generation, nuclear, fossil fuels, transmission and distribution, geothermal, wind power, hydroelectric and solar power. They also help clients effectively manage and resolve any disputes arising out of their activities, including the construction of power plants and other production and transmission facilities.
  • Crude and petroleum pipelines—We represent many large crude oil and petroleum product pipelines, as well as the Association of Oil Pipe Lines, on transactional, litigation and regulatory issues, including: obtaining market-based rate authority; securing traditional construction and term debt; navigating complex rate issues; resolving non-rate tariff issues such as pro-rationing and other conditions of service; leasing pipeline capacity; acquiring pipeline facilities and infrastructure; establishing jurisdictional status of assets, services and competitive access; ensuring compliance with Interstate Commerce Act and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and addressing antitrust and competition issues.
  • Electric utility and energy marketing—The team represents clients at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and on issues in federal and state courts at the trial and appellate level, as well as in bankruptcy courts and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. We provide advice and representation on all aspects of electric transmission and electric market operation, including: executing applications to sell or transfer facilities under Section 203 of the Federal Power Act; executing petitions under Section 205 of the Federal Power Act to secure authorization to makes sales of electricity at market-based rates; developing and litigating electric transmission rate cases; advising on market design issues in organized electricity markets; assisting natural gas trading companies and shippers on matters arising under the Natural Gas Act and the Natural Gas Policy Act; developing litigation and settlement strategies related to FERC proceedings, and managing CFTC and FERC litigation.

Recognition for the practice
Strong leadership in advising clients has earned us acknowledgement in numerous industry publications. This includes being awarded the 2016 U.S. News – Best Lawyers Law Firm of the Year in the category of Litigation – Regulatory Enforcement (Energy), along with first-tier national rankings in Energy Law and Natural Resources Law. The firm also received first-tier regional rankings for Energy in Houston, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. According to previous survey feedback, Sidley is “well-versed in the issues facing oil and gas companies and is very responsive to the needs of clients with useful and succinct advice.” In naming Sidley as one of Law360’s 2015 Energy Groups of the Year, editors of the publication said our team has “guided some of the industry’s largest companies through regulatory hurdles and multibillion-dollar transactions over the past year… .”

Lawyers in our practice have been recognized as leading practitioners by Chambers, Who’s Who Legal, The Legal 500, Project Finance International, IFLR and Euromoney

About the team
Members of our team have an uncommon insider’s perspective on energy regulation and enforcement, having formerly served in various governmental agencies. This includes:

  • Two former enforcement lawyers at the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), including the former director of the agency’s enforcement division
  • A former acting U.S. attorney general of the United States, the deputy attorney general of the United States and many former U.S. attorneys and assistant U.S. attorneys 
  • General counsels of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Surface Transportation Board and the Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Several former United States Department of Justice section chiefs
  • Federal Trade Commission staff lawyers
能源行业是全球工业经济最重要的组成部分。盛德几十年来一直为能源行业客户提供服务。我们的团队与中国以及其他地区的石油天然气和电力企业广泛合作,参与油气的勘探与生产、炼制、运输和营销,以及电力的发电、输电和配电环节。我们现在更协助诸多能源行业客户参与到页岩气开发的浪潮中,特别是在中国的开发。

盛德在全球拥有一支与能源企业密切合作的多元化业务团队,成员包括多名中国执业律师。其中在亚太地区,我们为来自中国、日本、印度、韩国、中东、印度尼西亚、蒙古、菲律宾和澳大利亚的客户服务。我们的律师长期致力于为本所能源行业相关客户协调法律意见,包括在中国有投资机会的海外客户以及在海外有投资机会的中国客户,并经常协助中国客户处理复杂的跨国交易。盛德能源团队的律师一直被公认为本领域的领先律师,并被列入《钱伯斯(亚太区)》(Chambers Asia Pacific)和《亚太法律500强》(Asia Pacific Legal 500)等独立法律名录。我们的客户来自各个能源领域,包括上游石油天然气开发商、油田服务公司、输油管道供应商、电力企业、商业输电公司、独立发电商、替代能源开发商、供应商及承包商、能源贸易公司、以及为这些行业企业提供支持的金融机构。

盛德因服务的深度和广度成为业内佼佼者。我们的核心能源业务包括并购、项目开发、资本市场、金融、监管和诉讼。此外,我们也向能源行业客户提供覆盖以下领域的相关服务:

  • 反腐败/贿赂
  • 反垄断/竞争
  • 公司治理与合规
  • 员工福利、劳动、就业及移民
  • 环境
  • 保险
  • 知识产权
  • 产品责任
  • 房地产
  • 美国证券交易委员会强制规定
  • 证券
  • 税务
  • 技术

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