Tom Warren is a member of Sutherland’s Energy and Environmental Practice Group and co-chair of the firm’s Renewable and Alternative Energy Team. He focuses his practice on energy transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions, energy trading, and project development. Tom works primarily in the electric power and liquefied natural gas (LNG) industries.

In the electric power industry, Tom represents buyers and sellers of all types of electric generation assets including by merger, purchase of equity interests, and purchase of assets (single units and portfolios). Tom also counsels clients on all aspects of renewable energy project development.

Tom regularly represents power marketers, independent power producers, electric cooperatives and others in physical and financial power purchases and sales. These include multifaceted long-term power supply arrangements, asset management transactions and trading under master agreements, including capacity products and renewable energy certificates.

In the LNG industry, Tom helps clients structure and negotiate transactions throughout the LNG value chain, including long-term LNG sale and purchase agreements, master sale and purchase agreements, regasification terminal use agreements, multi-user (operations cooperation) agreements and downstream arrangements. This work includes helping to create novel approaches to acquiring and/or marketing capacity, such as options and subdivisions of a user’s capacity rights.

In addition, Tom serves on Sutherland’s Climate Change law team, working with clients to identify and capitalize on opportunities and respond to business challenges impacted by climate change policies and regulations.

Tom also serves as Sutherland’s Sustainability Partner. He leads the firm’s multidisciplinary Sustainability Committee in administering the firm’s commitment to promote environmentally friendly business practices.