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The Best Practices of Leading Energy Lawyers??AA is an authoritative, insider's perspective on key strategies for navigating the energy law arena. Featuring partners and chairs from some of the nation's leading law firms, these experts guide the reader through many of the important issues in energy law today, and describe best practices for addressing those issues. These top lawyers reveal their advice on how to structure successful energy trans-actions, including conducting due diligence, overcoming regulatory hurdles, drafting agreements, mitigating risks, and dealing with the challenges of international transactions. Additionally, these leaders reveal their strategies for developing renewable energy projects, working with state and federal regulators, and using alternative dispute resolution in the energy industry. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts around the keys to success within this complex and rapidly-changing area of law. Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book.Chapters include: Christine Byrd, Partner, Irell & Manella LLP and James W. Durham, Independent Arbitrator and Mediator, Durham Mediation & Arbitration - Arbitration and Mediation of Energy Industry Disputes ; Mark Zvonkovic, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP - Executing Energy Finance Transactions ; Amy S. Koch, Chair, Energy and Natural Resources Group, Patton Boggs LLP - Energy Regulation of Electric Utility Transactions ; Jonathan M. Norling, Shareholder, Lane Powell PC - Developing and Financing Renewable Energy Projects ; and, Robert A. James, Co-Chair, Energy Industry Team, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP - Energy Acquisitions and Joint Ventures .Other chapters included are: Glen R. Thomas, President, GT Power Group - Positioning for Success: A Former Regulator's Approach to Winning before State and Federal Regulators ; Paul E. Horvath, Shareholder, Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen PC - Alternative Energy: Wind Farms ; John Clancy, Shareholder, Environmental, Land Use, and Energy Team, Godfrey & Kahn SC - Practicing at the Widening Intersection of Energyand Environmental Law ; James M. Van Nostrand, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP - Representing the Utility in State Retail Rate Proceedings ; and, Jonathan D. Cahn, Partner, Baker & McKenzie LLP - Adding Value inInternational Energy Transactions .Appendices include: Appendix A - List of Industry Publications; Appendix B - Sample Term Sheet; Appendix C - Sample Transaction Structure Chart; Appendix D - Sample Transaction Checklist; Appendix E - Preliminary Legal Due Diligence Request List; Appendix F - Agenda for Organizational Meeting; Appendix G - Sample FPA 203 Application; Appendix H - Sample FPA 205 (MBR) Application; Appendix I - Asset Purchase Agreement; and, Appendix J - Excerpts from Outline of Legal Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions in the United States (Fifteenth Edition, September 2003). It also includes: Appendix K - Sample Buyer's Due Diligence Checklist; Appendix L - Sample Purchase and Sale Agreement Table of Contents; Appendix M - Joint Venture Agreements: Major Issues and Common Provisions; Appendix N - Iowa Utilities Board Decision Influencing Alternative Energy Projects; Appendix O - Alternate Energy Production Purchase Contract; Appendix P - Wind Park Easement Agreement; and, Appendix Q - Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Memorandum of Understanding.

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