Canada
Daniel P E
Fournier
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Daniel Fournier heads the energy structured finance lending
group in the Calgary office of Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. He
is involved in all aspects of public and private debt financing,
both from the lender and borrower perspective. He also regularly
provides advice on structuring and financing joint ventures on
major capital projects in the energy industry. In recent years, he
has provided advice on the structuring and financing of Canada's
offshore East Coast exploration development; the construction and
expansion of leading petrochemical facilities in Alberta as well as
the deregulation of the power industry in
Alberta.
Mungo
Hardwicke-Brown
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Mungo Hardwicke-Brown practises in the Blakes National Corporate
M&A Practice Group and advises on corporate transactions
involving mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, financing and
joint ventures. His practice is focused on the energy sector with
experience in all aspects of the oil and gas and pipeline
industries. Most recently, he has worked on the $2 billion
divestiture of privately held energy assets and the acquisition of
a Canadian Pipeline. He has also completed a number of transactions
in connection with the deregulation of the power industry,
including the acquisition of power generation and transmission
facilities and "Power Purchase Arrangements" established under the
Electric Utilities Act (Alberta).
Craig Spurn
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Craig Spurn practices energy law in the Calgary office and is
head of the firm's Oil and Gas Group. He has had extensive
experience in all aspects of natural resources law including
secondments to two major independent oil companies supervising
property acquisitions and divestitures and providing general legal
support. In addition to handling corporate and property
transactions involving energy assets located throughout Western
Canada, he has provided advice in connection with transactions
involving assets in the US, onshore and offshore eastern Canada and
the far north.
United
States
Adam Wenner
Vinson & Elkins
LLP
Adam's practice focuses on the rapidly changing electric power
industry. He represents electric utilities, public utility holding
companies, regional transmission organizations, independent power
developers, and the other industry participants before the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and state utility commissions. Adam's practice includes
advising clients with respect to the formation of regional
transmission organizations, electric utility restructuring, assets
sales and acquisitions, the development of merchant power projects,
and outsourcing of energy supply arrangements to energy service
companies. In addition, Mr Wenner advises clients on federal and
state legislative matters involving the power industry.
Mr Wenner has practised in the electric power area for nearly 25
years. His experience includes serving as the deputy assistant
general counsel of the FERC, where he was one of the developers of
the FERC's independent power programme.
Stephen Angle
Vinson & Elkins
LLP
Stephen practises with the energy group. His activities focus on
the restructuring of the electric industry, particularly the
establishment of regional transmission organizations, access to the
interconnected electric grid, the role of energy sellers, and the
regulatory review of proposed acquisitions and divestitures. He was
an early adviser to entities creating independent system operators,
has counseled utilities on the organization of independent,
for-profit entities to operate regional transmission, and has
provided policy advice to numerous entities on these and related
issues.
Donna J
Bobbish
Vinson & Elkins
LLP
Donna's practice focuses on US (federal and state) and
international regulation of energy markets; energy transactions;
and energy project development. She represents clients before the
FERC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Energy and
state commissions. With over 20 years of experience in the energy
sector, she understands both government and private sector
perspectives of regulation of energy markets. From 1994 through
1999, Donna served at the DOE, where she advised the Secretary of
Energy and other senior Administration officials on policy and
regulatory issues associated with domestic and international energy
markets. Donna also played a key role in implementing the Clinton
Administration's policy of promoting US trade and investment in
global energy markets. Donna has advised energy companies seeking
to invest in international energy markets and also has advised
numerous governments on natural gas and electricity law, policy and
regulation. For example, through the Gore-Mbeki Binational
Commission's Energy Committee, Donna assisted the government of the
Republic of South Africa in drafting gas policy, regulation and
that country's first downstream "Gas Act". From 1981 through 1987,
Donna served with the Ferc in the Offices of General Counsel,
Administrative Law Judges and Pipeline and Producer Regulation,
where she worked on natural gas, electric and hydroelectric
matters.