Power and Energy

International Reputation for Excellence.

Through our involvement as counsel to lenders and other financial institutions, private equity and hedge funds, energy companies and other sponsors and developers, as well as our work with government institutions, Milbank’s Power and Energy Group has established a national and international reputation as the premier provider of tailored legal solutions in the area of power and energy.

Global Recognition

We are consistently recognized and highly ranked by prominent institutions and publications such as Chambers USA, Chambers Global, Who’s Who Legal, Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Project Finance. Recent accolades include our designation as "Global Projects and Energy Law Firm of the Year" and the "Award for Excellence" in the Energy/Projects category from Chambers and Partners. Infrastructure Journal has also named us the top-ranked "Power Legal Adviser and Renewables Legal Advisor", and industry tracker Dealogic has also ranked us among the "Top 10 Renewable Energy Legal Advisors" both globally and nationally. Our deals regularly appear in “Deals of the Year” lists both as a result of our transactions in the US and around the world.

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Broad Range of expertise

Our expertise in power and energy spans across industry sectors and includes all types of facilities – including gas, coal, and nuclear power. We also have one of the world’s most prominent alternative and renewable energy practices, which includes expertise in wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydroelectric and other technologies which continue to evolve. We are a leader in the development of independent transmission companies and stand-alone transmission projects as well. Regardless of the kind of power and energy project being developed, financed, restructured, acquired or sold, we bring to the table a robust combination of corporate transaction experience, global expertise and market understanding that is unique in the world.

Global integrated approach

Our multi-disciplinary Power and Energy Group offers a combination of transaction experience and specialized regulatory skills. Our team comprises over 100 lawyers, combining deep experience in project development and finance, private equity, leveraged finance, power generation and energy restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, structured commodity trading and hedging, greenfield development and regulatory matters. In addition, we provide counsel on related tax and litigation matters. Our integrated approach provides clients access to worldwide reach and capability with offices in the world’s major financial centers.

energy-related restructurings, bankruptcies and asset dispositions

As the power and energy sector is dynamic and multi-faceted, our expertise is not limited to new project development. We regularly support our clients in connection with energy-related restructurings, bankruptcies and asset dispositions. We have served as counsel to participants in many of the major industry restructurings and have played a major role in every significant bankruptcy or reorganization of an investor-owned utility in the US since the Great Depression. We routinely counsel distressed public utilities on restructuring and reorganization strategies to avoid bankruptcy, and we are very familiar with the special regulatory, accounting and commercial issues relevant to power generation/energy insolvencies.