Morrison & Foerster represents a broad range of interests in the energy and natural resources sector, providing clients with
a comprehensive, full-service practice.
The firm represents generators, gas and energy traders and marketers, energy service providers, investor-owned and municipal
utilities, pipeline companies, forestry companies, and minerals and mining concerns. The firm also represents industrial and
commercial customers, investors, lenders, public entities and other clients who do business with energy and natural resources
concerns.
Among the firm’s energy and natural resources clients are El Paso Corporation, El Paso Natural Gas Company, El Paso Merchant
Energy, AES Corporation, Constellation NewEnergy, the State of Alaska, Idaho Power Company, Entergy, Avista Corporation, Mid-American
Energy, Independent Energy Producers, Calpine Corporation, Sierra Pacific Industries, Salt River Project, NCPA, SMUD and Puget
Sound Energy.
Morrison & Foerster has handled major regulatory, litigation, environmental, land use, bankruptcy, tax, securities, antitrust,
and transactional matters for both U.S. and international energy and natural resources clients.
In addition, Morrison & Foerster provides assistance to non-U.S. governmental agencies and other non-U.S. clients on numerous
regulatory and transactional matters, including the relationships between independent power producers and marketers, the functioning
of a competitive market to generate electric power, and the deregulation of and new regulatory framework for natural gas markets.
The firm assists clients in transactions with non-regulated entities as well, including petroleum and natural gas suppliers
and marketers and energy equipment manufacturers.
Given the firm's in-depth knowledge of the international regulatory environment, Morrison & Foerster also assists clients
as transactional counsel in the financial structuring of U.S. and international alternative energy projects. This includes
the negotiation of underlying power purchase agreements, construction contracts, operation and maintenance agreements, thermal
host agreements and natural gas and other fuel supply agreements. The firm has participated in project development and finance
transactions in Latin America, Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe and the former Soviet Republics. At the same time, the firm
has also gained expertise in the arbitration of international disputes respecting power and oil and gas projects.
