Please join us in congratulating K&L Gates as one of our newest members at the New Jersey Energy Coalition! Below is more information about K&L Gates.

Since the creation of K&L Gates, the dynamic energy industry has evolved in response to the proliferation of new and cheaper technology coupled with regulatory, environmental, economic, political, and social influences. K&L Gates’ energy team leverages experience from many practices to help address these industries’ unique challenges. Lawyers guide clients through strategic decisions, policy and regulatory initiatives, commercial transactions, project financing and development, regulatory compliance, tax matters, credit trading, and litigation. Clients of K&L Gates include investor-owned and publicly owned electric, gas, water, and telecommunications utilities; independent power producers; alternative energy project developers and producers; emerging businesses in the smart energy sector; power marketers; oil and gas producers; natural gas and petroleum product storage and transmission companies; members of the nuclear power industry; industrial and commercial energy customers; municipalities; lenders; developers; and contractors. K&L Gates prides themselves on responsiveness and teamwork, as well as on maintaining a thorough grounding in both the legal and business dimensions of the energy and utilities industries.

The energy team also has experience with all types of renewable energy resources such as solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, wave, tidal, coal gasification, and various green technologies employed in the industry to facilitate the production of clean energy. Lawyers at K&L Gates have also assisted clients with fuel cell, alternative fuels, and other energy-storage technologies, distributed power systems, transmission and distribution system management and efficiency enhancements, and energy management software, sensors, and other systems. They have helped develop, finance, site, permit, and evaluate renewable energy projects for clients around the world. Additionally, the energy team helps emerging energy and technology companies form and organize; secure tax equity investment, grants, venture capital and other sources of financing; establish strategic alliances; engage in mergers and acquisitions transactions; commercialize their products through technology licensing; and protect their intellectual property.

The Newark office serves a variety of Fortune 500 companies locally, nationally, and abroad, but importantly, K&L Gates is entrenched in the New Jersey legal community. Lawyers practice and live in New Jersey. Spanning the full range of the energy, environmental, administrative law and government contracting arena, K&L Gates’ Newark litigation lawyers are experienced in defending clients in civil and administrative enforcement actions, challenging regulatory authority rules and actions, private party and citizen suit litigation, and resulting appellate practice. The Newark lawyers also have experience representing clients before various New Jersey government entities, including but not limited to, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). They regularly work with many energy industry groups and local bar associations, including the NJBPU, the New Jersey Energy Coalition, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey Business and Industries Association, and the Northeast Chapter of the Energy Bar Association. Capabilities of the Newark office include Project Development and Finance, Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations, Transactions and Power Trading, Federal and State Regulation, Policy, and Litigation. 

The energy lawyers at K&L Gates have been consistently recognized by Chambers USA and Legal 500 for many years. The firm itself has also been recognized as National Tier 1 “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News-Best Lawyers for over 10 years. In the last twelve months, K&L Gates has participated in several energy-related events. Most recently, Partner Theodore J. Paradise of K&L Gates moderated the Energy Bar Association’s Northeast Chapter Energizer on April 10, 2024, a hybrid event which featured a panel of speakers from each of the grid operators within the EBA Northeast Chapter region to discuss recently filed interconnection process reforms pursuant to FERC Order No. 2023.

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