Kirkland & Ellis LLP has a strong energy regulatory practice, advising clients on complex matters involving federal and state agencies overseeing the electricity sector. The team has extensive experience handling transactional and financing structures, renewables, restructuring, data center-related transactions, and litigation before FERC. The firm represents a wide range of clients, including major energy trading companies, electric transmission owners, independent power producers, and public utilities, before FERC, DOE, NRC, CFTC, and state public service commissions. Brooksany Barrowes focuses on regulatory litigation in the energy industry, representing clients across the commodity markets. Recent additions include Damien Lyster, who joined the Houston team from Vinson & Elkins LLP in August 2024, advising on regulatory and compliance matters involving FERC-regulated wholesale power markets, and Paul Wight, who joined from FERC in August 2024, focusing on restructured electricity markets, new energy technologies, and FERC enforcement actions. Andrew Stuyvenberg counsels clients on RTO tariff disputes, FERC M&A approvals, electric rate proceedings, and export authorizations. All team members based in Washington DC unless otherwise stated. The DC team gained John Decker, formerly of Vinson & Elkins LLP, in March 2025.
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Kernmandanten
- Constellation Energy Generation, LLC
- Blackstone Infrastructure Partners
- Coalition of PJM Capacity Resources
- Global Infrastructure Management, LLC
- Aypa Power LLC
- TexGen Power, LLC
- Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board
- Generate Capital, PBC
- Calpine Corporation, LS Power Development, LLC
- Ares Management Infrastructure Opportunities
Highlight-Mandate
- Represented Constellation Energy Generation, LLC in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission litigation involving co-location of large data center loads at existing nuclear power plants, which has emerged as the leading Energy Regulatory issue in the conventional power category in 2024, including being the subject of a special FERC Technical Conference on November 1, 2024.
- Represented Talen Energy Corporation in structuring a first-of-its-kind behind the meter power purchase agreement between a nuclear power plant (Susquehanna) and a hyperscale data center developer. This representation has led to opportunities to advise countless other power suppliers, data center developers, and other parties interested in investing in the data center space.
- Represented Energy Capital Partners (in an acquisition by Bridgepoint) then Global Infrastructure Partners (in an acquisition by BlackRock) of their respective manager entities for their significant energy and infrastructure portfolios.
Anwält*innen
Führende Partner*innen
Die stärksten Partner*innen ihres Praxisbereichs, die eine führende Rolle in signifikanten Mandaten einnehmen und weitreichende Anerkennung unter Wettbewerbern und Mandanten genießen.
Partner*innen der nächsten Generation
Juniorpartner*innen, die im Markt von Mandanten und Wettbewerbern anerkannt werden und in einigen Mandaten eine Schlüsselrolle einnehmen.
Weitere Kernanwält*innen
Brooksany Barrowes; Damien Lyster; Drew Stuyvenberg; Paul Wight; Chad Richards; Andrew Stuyvenberg; John Decker