REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE
Tom’s recent representative experience includes:
Electric Power
- Representing Oglethorpe Power in its $529 million acquisition of Murray I and II LLC, a project company that owns two combined cycle facilities totaling approximately 1,250-MW in Georgia.
- Representing an international energy company in structuring and acquiring a minority interest in a geothermal project under development in the Pacific Northwest.
- Representing an IPP in the sale of a 1000+ MW portfolio of pre-commercial wind generation projects.
- Representing developer in developing a 5-MW solar PV project.
- Representing a bidder to acquire two wind generation facilities in Texas.
- Representing a water utility in the acquisition of a hydro-generation facility in Texas and conducting and completing an RFP for the long-term sale of the facility’s output.
- Creating documents for request for proposals to buy output of 550-MW combined-cycle facility and negotiating agreements with the winning bidder.
- Representing an independent power producer in all aspects of joint development of a 600-MW gas-fired generating facility.
- Representing a developer in the sale of power from a 30-MW biomass Qualifying Facility and other aspects of project development and related financing.
- Representing an electric cooperative in the acquisition of a 340-MW peaking facility in Michigan.
- Representing an electric cooperative in the acquisitions of entities owning two peaking facilities in Georgia.
- Structuring an acquisition of power plants via merger of three electric cooperatives.
- Representing a G&T cooperative in structuring and restructuring its wholesale power contracts with its members, including partial requirements options.
- Representing a bidder to provide long-term financial hedges to support financing of the acquisition of a generating portfolio.
- Representing an industrial user, partially owned by the government of a Caribbean country, in a long-term purchase of power from a greenfield power project in that country.
- Representing a power marketer in a physical swap of energy, RECs and carbon offsets in California.
- Structuring a long-term arrangement for a power marketer to manage all generation and transmission assets of, and supply power to, an electric cooperative.
- Counseling a power marketer in a series of RFPs to supply power to municipal electric utilities under International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) and Edison Electric Institute (EEI) documents.
- Negotiating and drafting a series of consortium agreements with respect to construction of several new nuclear power generation facilities.
LNG
- Representing an LNG importer in securing U.S. regasification terminal capacity at an expansion of an existing terminal.
- Representing a shipper in contracting for capacity at a European regasification terminal and related LNG supply arrangements.
- Structuring and negotiating agreements among shippers at a multi-user regasification terminal designed to optimize utilization of the terminal.
- Representing an operator of a U.S. regasification terminal in structuring multi-user terminal use agreements to optimize marketability.
- Representing a national gas company negotiating a series of master LNG sale and purchase agreements with major oil and gas companies, national oil companies and others.
- Drafting a long-term LNG sale and purchase agreement on behalf of an LNG purchaser in the Pacific Basin.
- Negotiating a precedent agreement for gas transportation and storage to coordinate with LNG regasification capabilities.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS
- Named a “Rising Star” by Energy Law360 (April 2010)
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
- Member, LNG Sales Agreement Subcommittee, Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
- Member, Clean Tech Leadership Council, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
- Member, Environmental Policy and Sustainability Committee, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Speaker, “Structuring Investments in Pre-Commercial Wind Generation Assets to Mitigate Risks,” AWEA WINDPOWER 2012 – Conference and Exhibition (June 3-6, 2012)
- Speaker, “Top Five Things to Beware of in Consequential Damages Limitations,” ACC Legal Quick Hit (April 18, 2012)
- Speaker, “Considerations in Renewable Energy,” Sutherland Webinar Series: Electric Cooperative M&A Issues (October 25, 2011)
- Speaker, “Joint Ownership Arrangements,” Sutherland Webinar Series: Electric Cooperative M&A Issues (September 13, 2011)
- Speaker, “Electric Cooperative Mergers & Combinations,” G&T Accounting and Finance Association Annual Conference (June 21, 2011)
- Speaker, “5 Keys to Long-Term Power Purchase Agreements That Are Not in the Term Sheet,” ACC Legal Quick Hit (June 15, 2011)
- Speaker, “Electric Cooperative Mergers & Reorganizations,” Sutherland Webinar Series: Electric Cooperative M&A Issues (May 24, 2011)
- Speaker, “Power Asset M&A,” Sutherland Webinar Series: Electric Cooperative M&A Issues (February 22, 2011)
- Speaker, “PPAs in a Nodal Market,” 9th Annual Gas and Power Institute (September 23-24 2010)
- Speaker, “Keys to Negotiations,” EUCI’s Mergers and Acquisitions in the Renewable Energy Industry Conference (July 19–20, 2010)
- Speaker, “The Evolution of Market-Based, Open-Access Import and Export Terminals,” Zeus Development Corporation’s New Approaches to LNG Terminal Operations Meeting (June 3, 2010)
- Speaker, “Multi User Regasification Terminals: Factoring Capacity Abundance & Optionality,” 9th Annual World LNG Summit (December 9-12, 2008)
- Speaker, 8th Annual World LNG Summit (December 3–6, 2007)
- Speaker, IQPC Commercial Strategies for LNG Regas Terminals – Europe 2007 (July 9–10, 2007)
- Speaker, Platts 6th Annual LNG Conference (May 21–22, 2007)
- Co-author, “Successful European Terminal Projects Must Run Regulatory, Commercial Gauntlets,” LNG Observer (April/June 2007)
- Co-author, “Achieving True Market Value,” Fundamentals of LNG (April 2007)
- Co-author, “Formal Agreements Needed for Best Use of Multi-Shipper Terminal,” LNG Observer (July 2006)