Carmen, a founding partner of BGM, has practiced energy law for more than 30 years. He has litigated for and advised clients on a variety of matters including competition, industry restructuring, mergers, asset acquisitions, open access transmission, regional transmission organizations, interconnection agreements, power supply and transmission planning, market-based rates, stranded costs, contract disputes, nuclear plant decommissioning, fuel procurement, compliance with the Energy Policy Act of 2005, including PUHCA 2005, Standards of Conduct and affiliate restrictions compliance, reliability must-run agreements, exchange-based power purchases and sales and the prudence of nuclear power plant construction and operation. He has participated in antitrust litigation before the Federal District Courts, argued several appeals in the United States Courts of Appeals, and practices before FERC on a regular basis.

Before founding BGM, Carmen was an associate and then a partner in a Washington, D.C. law firm specializing in public utility and environmental law. Previously, he served as assistant legal counsel to the governor of Massachusetts, as law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court, as a foreign service officer in Washington, D.C., and as a vice consul at the American Consulate General, Palermo, Italy.

Carmen holds an A.B. in international relations from Harvard College (1961) and an LL.B. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1967). He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia. He is a past president of the Federal Energy Bar Association and has served on that association’s board of directors, and as chairman of its Committees on Antitrust and Regulations. He was a vice chairman of SONREEL’s Electric Power Committee. He formerly served on the board of trustees of the Foundation of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and on that association’s board of directors. His publications include an article on the Mobile-Sierra doctrine, written in connection with his involvement in several contract litigations and published in The Energy Law Journal, and an article on guilty pleas, written in connection with his work on the Massachusetts Superior Court and published in the Boston University Law Review.

Bar Admissions

• District of Columbia

• Admitted to practice in: Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, Second Circuit and the District of Columbia Circuit; Federal District Court for the District of Columbia and Massachusetts

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.B. (1967)

• Harvard College, A.B., International Relations (1961)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Energy Bar Association

- President, 1995-1996

- President-Elect, 1994-1995

- Board of Trustees, 1986-1989, 1993-1997

- Chairman, Committee on Regulation, 1985-1986

- Vice-Chairman, Committee on Regulation, 1984-1985

- Chairman, Committee on Antitrust, 1981-1982

- Vice-Chairman, Committee on Antitrust, 1980-1981

• American Bar Association

- Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, Electric Power Committee, Vice Chair, 1996-1998

• Bar Association of the District of Columbia

- Board of Trustees of Foundation, 1993 - 1994

- Board of Trustees, 1983 - 1985

• District of Columbia Board of Appeals and Review (Attorney Member, 1978-1980)