Energy

  • February 12, 2025

    Power Generation Co. Going Public Via $770M SPAC Deal

    Energy solutions company e2Companies LLC, led by Haynes Boone, on Wednesday unveiled plans to go public via a merger with Vinson & Elkins LLP-advised special purpose acquisition company Nabors Energy Transition Corp. II in a deal that holds a pro forma enterprise value of $770 million for the combined company.

  • February 12, 2025

    Trump Taps Oil Advocate, Ex Wyo. Official For Interior Posts

    President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, and Brian Nesvik, a former Wyoming Fish and Game head, to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and Fish and Wildlife Service.

  • February 12, 2025

    2nd Lyondell Leak Case Settles A Week Into Trial

    A valve maker and eight workers at a LyondellBasell facility in La Porte, Texas, settled their claims roughly one week into a monthlong trial.

  • February 12, 2025

    Ex-Ill. Speaker Madigan Guilty Of Bribery In Mixed Verdict

    A federal jury on Wednesday partially convicted the man who was once the most powerful politician in Illinois on federal corruption charges, finding former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan guilty of bribery conspiracy and wire fraud but deadlocking on the government's overarching racketeering charge.

  • February 12, 2025

    HMRC Can't Tax Canadian Bank For Oil Loan Payments

    The U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that HM Revenue and Customs cannot tax loan payments made to Royal Bank of Canada connected to oil rights in the North Sea because the underlying agreement did not give an oil company the right to work the oilfield.

  • February 11, 2025

    SoCal Edison Investors Sue Over LA Wildfire Mitigation Claims

    The parent company of Southern California Edison was hit with a putative shareholder class action on Tuesday that alleges the public utility company misled investors about implementing the power company's wildfire-mitigation measures in the lead-up to the Eaton and Hurst fires that devastated an area north of Los Angeles.

  • February 11, 2025

    Kids Can't Save Reworked EPA Climate Suit, Judge Rules

    A California federal judge on Tuesday threw out, for good, children's amended allegations that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's climate policies violate their constitutional rights, ruling that they haven't shown that the alleged harms they've suffered in the midst of climate change can be traced to the policies.

  • February 11, 2025

    Billionaire Ira Rennert Says Justices Must Resolve Peru Fight

    A mining company controlled by billionaire Ira Rennert has repeated its bid for the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve whether the Eighth Circuit mistakenly denied dismissal of claims by more than 1,000 Peruvians over alleged pollution, saying the circuit court's opinion "distorted" international comity.

  • February 11, 2025

    Justices Ponder If Colo. Climate Case Would Open Floodgates

    Colorado justices on Tuesday asked a city and county seeking damages against ExxonMobil and Suncor over the local impacts of climate change why such suits don't amount to an attempt to regulate the oil and gas industry, with one justice saying he has "practical concerns" about more municipalities bringing novel climate tort claims.

  • February 11, 2025

    5th Circ. Affirms Dismissal Of Jones Act Competition Suit

    A Fifth Circuit panel rejected a Houston company's challenge of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection determination regarding the extent to which domestic vessels compliant with the Jones Act must be tapped to haul rock used to protect the foundations of offshore wind facilities.

  • February 11, 2025

    EV Charging Supply Chain In Limbo Amid Funding Freeze

    The Trump administration's suspension of a $5 billion program funding electric vehicle charging stations nationwide infuses uncertainty into the future of the U.S. electric-vehicle supply chain, triggering costly project delays and fresh litigation, experts told Law360.

  • February 11, 2025

    Feds Are Asked How FCPA Halt Affects Cognizant Bribe Case

    A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday told prosecutors to weigh in on how President Donald Trump's executive order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act could impact a case alleging that two former Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. executives authorized a bribe to an Indian official.

  • February 11, 2025

    Feds Must Enforce Law In Dakota Pipeline Row, Court Told

    The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is fighting a bid by the federal government and a slew of Republican-led states to dismiss its lawsuit that seeks to block an energy company from operating the Dakota Access Pipeline, saying there's a mandatory duty to ensure its operations comply with environmental laws.

  • February 11, 2025

    Eaton Fire Victim Wants Sanctions Against SoCal Edison

    A victim of the recent devastating Eaton Fire in Altadena has told a California state judge that Southern California Edison and its attorneys should face sanctions for allegedly concealing efforts to reenergize electrical transmission lines while the blaze was still burning last month.

  • February 11, 2025

    Activist Elliott Targets Phillips 66 Again Over Lack Of Progress

    Activist investor Elliott Investment Management LP on Tuesday sent a letter to the board of directors of energy conglomerate Phillips 66 calling for "urgent changes" to improve operating performance and regain shareholder trust, saying "another year of empty rhetoric and broken promises is unacceptable."

  • February 11, 2025

    ABA, Aid Orgs. Sue White House Over Foreign Funding Freeze

    The American Bar Association and seven international aid organizations sued the Trump administration in D.C. federal court Tuesday over its freeze on foreign assistance funding, arguing the pause flouts "bedrock separation-of-powers principles."

  • February 11, 2025

    Award Enforcement Suit Must Focus On Italy Immunity First

    A D.C. federal judge said Italy has at least a "colorable" sovereign immunity defense to litigation by Dutch, Danish and Luxembourgish firms seeking to enforce $23 million in arbitral awards granted after the country rolled back renewable energy subsidies.

  • February 11, 2025

    Energy Group Of The Year: Norton Rose

    Norton Rose Fulbright has capitalized on momentum in the energy market to help guide multiple first-of-their-kind projects, including what deal participants have called the largest clean energy infrastructure project in U.S. history, earning the firm a spot among the 2024 Law360 Energy Groups of the Year.

  • February 11, 2025

    EU Leaders Poised For 'Proportionate' Response To US Tariffs

    European Union officials criticized President Donald Trump's decision to impose an across-the-board 25% tariff on all imported steel and aluminum, with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday signaling "firm and proportionate countermeasures."

  • February 11, 2025

    Jones Day Gets Amazon Atty For Energy Practice In Houston

    Jones Day has hired an attorney who previously worked as senior corporate counsel at Amazon and as an in-house lawyer for Chevron Phillips Chemical to strengthen its energy practice group.

  • February 11, 2025

    Nelson Mullins Adds Litigation, Biz Pros In Houston

    Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has bolstered its corporate and litigation offerings with new partners in Houston who came aboard from Jackson Walker LLP and Paul Hastings LLP and who bring unique international experience.

  • February 11, 2025

    Republican-Led SEC Pauses Climate Regulation Litigation

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission signaled Tuesday that it may not move forward with a Biden-era regulation requiring public companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, asking the court overseeing litigation against the climate reporting rules not to schedule the case for oral argument.

  • February 10, 2025

    Xcel, Telecom Cos. Say Colo. Fire Plaintiffs Can't Opt Out Of Trial

    Xcel Energy and two telecom companies being sued over the Marshall Fire in Colorado told a state judge that hundreds of plaintiffs pushing to opt out of a common liability trial should not be able to do so, at least until expert reports are shared.

  • February 10, 2025

    Baker Hughes Obtains Toss Of Ex-Worker's 401(k) Fee Suit

    A Texas federal judge tossed an excessive recordkeeping fees suit Monday from a proposed class of Baker Hughes 401(k) plan participants, finding evidence wasn't presented to show that the plan administrator owed a fiduciary duty in regard to so-called float money.

  • February 10, 2025

    Colo. Judge Baffled By Party's Anonymity In Oil Secrets Suit

    A Colorado state judge puzzled over how to handle the fact that a key third party in a trade secrets case brought by Anschutz Exploration Corp. has insisted on not revealing their identity to the court, telling the parties at a hearing Monday she wouldn't close a trial just to get around the "very strange" situation.

Expert Analysis

  • The Post-Macquarie Securities Fraud-By-Omission Landscape

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    While the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 opinion in Macquarie v. Moab distinguished inactionable "pure omissions" from actionable "half-truths," the line between the two concepts in practice is still unclear, presenting challenges for lower courts parsing statements that often fall within the gray area of "misleading by omission," say attorneys at Katten.

  • Trump's Energy Plans: Climate, Data Centers, LNG And More

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    With a host of executive orders addressing climate and emissions policies, expanded energy development, offshore and onshore projects, liquefied natural gas and more, the second Trump administration has already given energy companies much to consider, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • AI Will Soon Transform The E-Discovery Industrial Complex

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    Todd Itami at Covington discusses how generative artificial intelligence will reshape the current e-discovery paradigm, replacing the blunt instrument of data handling with a laser scalpel of fully integrated enterprise solutions — after first making e-discovery processes technically and legally harder.

  • Trump's Energy Plans: Funding, Permits And Nuclear Power

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    In the wake of President Donald Trump's flurry of first-day executive orders focusing on the energy sector, attorneys at Gibson Dunn analyze what this presidency will mean for energy-related grants and loans, changes to permitting processes and developments in nuclear power.

  • When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law

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    In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • FTC Focus: Avoiding 'Gun Jumping' Violations

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    The Federal Trade Commission's recent record $5.6 million "gun jumping" enforcement action against XCL Resources, EP Energy and Verdun Oil sends a clear message about the seriousness of violations of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act's premerger requirements, and highlights compliance tips such as avoiding premature integration of operations, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • The Tides Are Changing For Fair Access Banking Laws

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    The landscape of fair access banking laws, which seek to prevent banks from denying services based on individuals' ideological beliefs, has shifted in the last few years, but a new presidential administration provides renewed momentum for advancing such legislation against the backdrop of state efforts, say attorneys at Latham.

  • Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering

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    Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.

  • A Halftime Analysis Of DOJ's Compensation Pilot Program

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    The U.S. Department of Justice appears to consider the first half of its three-year pilot program on compensation incentives and clawbacks to be proceeding successfully, so companies should expect prosecutors to emphasize the program and other compliance-related considerations early in investigations, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • A Look At Order Ending Federal Contractor Affirmative Action

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    To comply with President Donald Trump's executive order revoking affirmative action requirements in the next 90 days, federal contractors should focus on identification of protected groups, responsibilities of "diversity officer" positions and annual compliance reviews, says Jeremy Burkhart at Holland & Knight.

  • Series

    Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations

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    In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.

  • Gas Contract Fight Holds Lessons On Force Majeure Clauses

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    Ongoing litigation over gas deliveries during Winter Storm Uri underscores the need for precision and foresight when negotiating force majeure clauses in contracts — particularly in the energy sector, where climate-related disruptions and market volatility are inevitable, but often unpredictable, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.

  • Scope And Nature Of Judicial Relief Will Affect Loper's Impact

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    The practical result of post-Loper Bright rulings against regulatory actions will depend on the relief courts grant — and there has been controversy in these types of cases over whether the ruling is applied just to the parties or nationwide, and whether the action can be left in place while it's corrected, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.

  • Series

    Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.

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