Energy Policy & Regulatory

We help leading energy companies, developers, investors, and governments navigate the regulatory, permitting, compliance, and policy challenges shaping global energy markets to manage risk and advance strategic objectives. Our fully integrated, borderless global team includes specialist regulatory lawyers working alongside transactional, project development and financing, construction, environmental, disputes, antitrust and sanctions teams to deliver integrated advice across the life cycle of major energy projects, investments, and disputes. 

With an extensive track record of success across LNG, oil and gas, power, and low carbon solutions, our lawyers advise on market entry, licensing, regulatory approvals, pricing regimes, network access, environmental and climate regulation, emissions-related matters, decommissioning, sanctions, and cross-border energy trade. We help clients anticipate and respond to policy shifts driven by energy security concerns, decarbonization targets, and geopolitical pressures, including through engagement with regulators, policymakers, and industry bodies. 

In the U.S., we counsel clients on projects and transactions subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Department of the Interior, and represent them in complex regulatory litigation, investigations, and enforcement matters before FERC, DOI, the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Agriculture, and other federal and state regulatory bodies. In the E.U., we advise on the complex and rapidly shifting regulatory environment, including how it impacts international projects seeking to export to the Union. We also advise acquirers and facility owners evaluating regulated energy assets and companies, assist LNG clients with terminal construction and licensing, and represent oil and gas clients on leasing, permitting, royalties, production operations, decommissioning, safety, environmental, financial security requirements, and more.

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