Halloran Sage provides a full range of services for clients in energy, telecommunications and other regulated utility industries. Members of our legal team include the former chair of the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control and other former utility regulators. We have extensive experience representing utilities before federal, state and local regulatory agencies. We are also active in legislative affairs and we played a key role in bringing about legislation allowing for deregulation and restructuring of the electric utility industry in Connecticut.
We regularly provide advice and counsel in power generation and transmission projects, energy and telecommunications restructuring and deregulation matters, siting of energy and telecommunications facilities, and related transactional and permitting assignments. Our practice includes representation of clients in traditional utility matters as well as clients involved in emerging, deregulated energy and telecommunications industries. Working in conjunction with other practice groups within the firm, including corporate and government affairs, we assist clients in developing and implementing innovative solutions to the legal issues they face.
Our attorneys handle all aspects of utility regulation in Connecticut. We also assist clients involved in commercial utility transactions, including the purchase, sale, and financing of utility assets, joint ventures and partnership agreements, project development and finance, and structuring and negotiating utility participant transactions. We represent various participants in utility transactions, including utility companies, public authorities and private business enterprises as well lenders and equity participants. Our services also include rate setting, asset disposition, mergers and acquisitions and service territory expansion for utilities and on utility-related matters.
With extensive practices in real estate and construction law, we also assist utility clients in real-estate development projects. Our experience includes representing investors and developers in structuring and documenting project financing for a variety of infrastructure projects, including cogeneration facilities, waste-processing plants and manufacturing facilities.