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Winston & Strawn’s Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) & Energy Regulatory Practice bring decades of experience counseling on transactional, regulatory, investigation, and enforcement and litigation matters.
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Energy Industry Litigation & Investigations
With our reputation as a trial lawyers’ firm serving as our foundation, we advocate for a variety of power producers, oil and gas companies, and oilfield services providers in high-stakes litigation throughout U.S. district and appellate courts. We also handle sensitive investigations, contentious regulatory and enforcement issues, and arbitration. Our bench is stacked with innovative legal and commercial problem solvers, many of whom came to Winston from in-house positions, amplifying their appreciation for C-suite complexities. By combining our knowledge of the energy industry with first-rate trial skills, and the experience our practitioners have gained from learning our clients’ businesses, we are positioned to obtain the best result for our clients efficiently—whether in the courtroom or a negotiated solution.
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Winston offers a full-service energy practice. With four decades of experience handling a broad array of services for participants across the energy industry and in key markets worldwide, our practitioners have developed a deep familiarity and keen sense of the market. Our experience spans electric generation, transmission, distribution, and fuel supply and transportation in the power sector—including conventional and renewable resources—as well as the upstream, midstream, downstream, and oilfield services segments in the oil and gas sector. Additionally, our team is at the forefront of the flourishing market for energy transition, and we bring practical experience, perspective, and innovative thinking to this rapidly expanding segment of energy sector.
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Recognitions
|November 7, 2024
|Less Than 1 Min Read
Winston Merits 98 Tier 1 Rankings in the 2025 Edition of Best Law Firms®
Winston & Strawn received a cumulative 98 Tier 1 practice area rankings in the 2025 edition of Best Law Firms®. 23 Winston practice areas received a National Tier 1 ranking, and 75 received local Metropolitan Tier 1 rankings across the firm’s Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C offices.
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|July 15, 2024
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Environmental Protection Agency Issues New Civil and Criminal Environmental Enforcement Policy
This article was originally published in Pratt’s Energy Law Report. Any opinions in this article are not those of Winston & Strawn or its clients. The opinions in this article are the authors’ opinions only.
Winston’s Environmental Law Update
|June 27, 2024
|3 Min Read
Supreme Court Grants Cert To Assess Limits Of NEPA
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the D.C. Circuit’s interpretation of agency obligations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The June 24, 2024 grant of certiorari in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County marks the Supreme Court’s most significant foray into NEPA since its unanimous 2004 decision in Department of Transportation v. Public Citizen, 541 U.S. 752 (2004). The Supreme Court will consider “[w]hether the National Environmental Policy Act requires an agency to study environmental impacts beyond the proximate effects of the action over which the agency has regulatory authority.” Pet. at i.
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Winston & Strawn’s Washington, D.C. office—the first outside of Chicago—opened its doors in 1970. The office is home to 75+ attorneys, many of whom are nationally recognized and award-winning, with experience navigating clients through regulatory and enforcement issues as well as complicated governmental processes. Located in the center of the nation’s capital, the D.C. office assists clients at the intersection of business, government, and law. We represent 75+ Fortune 500 companies and employ eight attorneys with prior government experience. The office also boasts a nationally ranked eDiscovery group known for providing a full-service practice.
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Opened in 2017, Winston & Strawn’s Dallas office is located in the cultural and economic epicenter of DFW, the fourth largest metropolitan area in the U.S. and the fastest growing over the last year. Our Dallas attorneys litigate both high-stakes civil and criminal matters, including major state and federal trials and appeals nationwide, and represent clients in complex transactional matters. Under the leadership of Bryan L. Goolsby, our office—made up of 85+ attorneys—continues to expand, attracting some of the country’s top legal talent to meet the increased needs of the many technology, investment, and health care companies that are increasingly making Dallas their home.
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Winston & Strawn’s Brussels office further establishes our preeminent EU antitrust/competition practice at the epicenter of European competition law. The office is located on the famous Rue de la Loi or Wetstraat, which connects the Belgium Federal Parliament with the European Commission headquarters—the Berlaymont—and the Justus Lipsius, home to the Council of the European Union.