Beverly Rudy is a partner in the Energy & Environmental Group at Sutherland, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and co-head of the Energy Trading Team. She has more than 30 years of experience advising oil trading companies and focuses her practice on commercial, international trade, regulatory and transaction tax matters that affect the global trading of oil, petrochemicals and other energy commodities.

Beverly has been involved in all manners of commercial agreements and structured transactions, including crude oil processing and products off-take agreements, crude oil forward sale agreements, inventory financing and consignment arrangements, terminaling and throughput agreements, and marketing and distribution contracts. She assists trading companies with a myriad of regulatory, commercial and credit issues arising from the purchase, sale, storage, exchange, financing, marine transportation and processing of oil commodities. She also advises clients on the commercial aspects of purchasing oil-related assets and businesses.

Her extensive experience on trade issues includes the foreign assets control programs applicable to U.S. persons, extraterritorial sanctions laws, anti-boycott laws, anti-bribery statutes, short supply controls and other export restrictions. Beverly counsels firms regarding transactions and investments involving the governments, nationals and products of countries subject to trade sanctions and helps them obtain licenses from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to enter into transactions otherwise prohibited or with respect to blocked property.

Beverly’s tax practice covers federal taxes and fees due on importation of liquid commodities, state motor fuel, sales and use, gross receipts and oil spill taxes, as well as franchise, corporate and transaction taxes imposed on natural gas and power trading transactions.