Our attorneys advise clients on nearly all regulatory issues affecting the electric energy and natural gas industries. We are involved at every stage of the regulatory, transactional and litigation process, including proceedings before FERC and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). BGM also represents clients in appeals from FERC orders before the United States Courts of Appeals and subsequent petitions for review to the United States Supreme Court.

Some representative areas of our practice include:

• Power sale and transmission contracts and services;

• Compliance with regulatory mandates of FERC and NERC;

• Electric and natural gas utility ratemaking;

• Regional transmission organizations and independent system operators;

• Regional planning and markets;

• Generator interconnection procedures and agreements;

• Corporate asset sales and restructuring arrangements;

• Competition and market power analysis;

• Liquefied natural gas and oil pipeline regulation;

• Applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity;

• Security issuances; and

• Interlocking directorates.

We also assist clients on antitrust matters, prudence investigations, bankruptcy proceedings, arbitrations, stranded cost recovery, and numerous issues involving independent generation resources.