The firm represents clients in connection with the purchase and sale of energy facilities and companies in the United States and internationally, including equity and asset transactions, competitive auctions, privatizations and divestitures, and distressed asset dispositions and acquisitions. These transactions involve utility and non-utility electric generators, including natural gas, coal, oil-fired, hydro-electric, nuclear, wind, geothermal, wood-burners, waste coal, and waste-to-energy plants; natural gas pipeline, distribution, processing, and storage facilities; oil terminals and pipelines; LNG terminals and associated facilities; electric transmission lines; development projects for the foregoing facilities; and energy trading books, energy data vendors, and energy management systems. Dickstein Shapiro also represents clients in M&A transactions involving other types of infrastructure facilities, including desalination and water treatment plants. In the course of these representations, the firm has conducted extensive legal due diligence, designed transaction and ownership structures to minimize regulatory and tax consequences, prepared and negotiated all transaction documents, and helped to obtain all requisite governmental approvals.
Dickstein Shapiro has also represented potential purchasers of energy assets offered for sale, lease, or inclusion in joint ventures by Enron, Atlantis Energy Systems, Mirant Corporation, Dynegy, El Paso Corporation, Panda International, and Calpine Corporation, among others. Clients that the firm’s attorneys have assisted with potential or completed acquisitions include the following: