Understanding Corporate Governance Laws & Regulations

Energy Law Settlements and Negotiations is an authoritative, insider's perspective on key strategies for representing and advising today's leading energy companies. Featuring leading lawyers from some of the nation's top firms, this book offers invaluable perspectives on common land issues such as: siting, space availability, safety concerns, and contractual questions regarding how energy will be generated. From reaching a settlement to litigating and arbitrating energy disputes, these authors discuss in detail key strategies for negotiating deals in this ever-evolving industry. Additionally, each author outlines the elements necessary to maintain a balance between energy costs, the environment, and maintaining company reliability. These attorneys define tactics that are imperative to an energy company's success and daily practice, and that will hold true into the future. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today as these lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this dynamic field.

Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nation-wide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter.

Chapters Include:

• 1. James M. Avery, Esq., Partner, Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels LLP - "Energy Law: Peeling Back the Layers";
• 2. Kevin D. Keenan, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP - "Going Global: Challenges and Opportunities for Energy Lawyers";
• 3. Chad Mills, Partner, Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP - "Preparing for and Succeeding in Negotiations";
• 4. Sara Schotland, Partner, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton - "Winning Strategies before the FERC";
• 5. Philip L. Comella, Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP - "Global Warming and the Coming Regulation of CO2 Emissions";
• 6. Daniel Yost, Lou Soto, and Mitch Zuklie, Partners, Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP - "Practicing Clean Energy Law: A Focus on Solar";
• 7. Charles E. Frost Jr., Shareholder - Intellectual Property, Oil & Gas, and Commercial Litigation, Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Martin - "Protecting an Energy Company's Intellectual Property";
• 8. Edward G. Kehoe, Partner, King & Spalding LLP - "Performing an Effective Cost/Benefit Analysis";
• 9. Frank A. Caro Jr., Shareholder, Polsinelli Shalton Welte Suelthaus PC - "Getting to Know the Client";
• 10.Todd Culwell, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP - "Bringing the Deal to Closure: The Ultimate Goal";
• 11. Jeffrey D. Komarow, Partner, Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP - "Energy Regulation and Policy in a Time of Change: A Modest Agenda for Utility Regulators, an Ambitious Agenda for Federal Policymakers."

Appendices:

• Appendix A: Request for Clarification and/or Rehearing
• Appendix B: Pro-Company License with a University
• Appendix C: Agreement to Release Interstate Pipeline Capacity and Firm Transportation Contract Rights