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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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As core segments of the global economy continue to embrace sustainable and carbon-neutral energy resources as complementary and integral to fossil-based systems of energy production and consumption, we stand ready to guide our clients through the energy transition. Our team is at the forefront of the flourishing energy transition market, and we bring practical experience, perspective, and innovative thinking to the sector. By combining our more than 40 years of experience in renewable and conventional energy with an integrated service approach, we help clients to plan for, invest in, and thrive in today’s shifting environment. Not only does our team include experienced energy and corporate lawyers, but also practitioners with deep experience in tax credits and tax equity, project finance, infrastructure, and power and renewables to serve the varied needs of our client base.
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Winston’s broad-based, fully integrated Energy Practice is among the most experienced in the current market, and we advise enterprises with interests in power generation from both renewable and conventional sources; transmission, including generation interconnection and transmission access; and storage projects on a full panoply of legal and business needs. We have handled power transactions since the infusion of independent power producers (IPPs) into the sector in the 1970s, which helped establish our reputation as one of the leading firms for power sector transactions, including electric generation, transmission, distribution, and fuel supply. We also handle various types of energy-related disputes before federal and state courts, arbitral panels on the domestic and international levels, and before regulatory authorities. Collectively, our lawyers deliver exceptional value due to the team’s depth of experience, the efficiency that comes with such experience, and our institutional knowledge of our clients’ businesses.
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Winston assists Eurazeo in the financing of Vulcain Ingénierie's fourth LBO
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In the Media
|March 25, 2025
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Pete Morgan Discusses Possibilities in C-PACE Financing for Owners with Law360
Winston & Strawn partner Pete Morgan spoke with Law360 to discuss refinancing possibilities for owners in commercial property-assessed clean energy (C-PACE). C-PACE is a financing mechanism that allows building owners to fund clean energy upgrades, energy efficiency improvements and resiliency renovations, recouped via a special assessment on annual property tax bills and then repaid by municipalities to private lenders. Although the financing tool for commercial real estate has been around since 2009, the macroeconomic conditions ushered in by the pandemic have led to a surge of interest in C-PACE.
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|March 24, 2025
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The Private Equity Play in Texas Energy: Who’s Buying and Why?
This article was originally published in Texas Lawyer. Any opinions in this article are not those of Winston & Strawn or its clients. The opinions in this article are the authors’ opinions only.
Recognitions
|March 21, 2025
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Winston Attorneys Featured on the 2025 Lawdragon 100 Lawyers You Need to Know in South America List
20 Winston & Strawn attorneys were named on the inaugural Lawdragon 100 Lawyers You Need to Know in South America list. This directory highlights “South America-based lawyers who lead the office or critical practices for global firms; U.S., UK and other global lawyers whose disputes, infrastructure, finance, transactional or litigation practice is focused in large part in South America; and on those global lawyers who have played leading roles in major international lawsuits and other transactions originating there.”
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What Is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)?
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is the U.S. Government agency that leases offshore areas on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for energy development, including offshore renewable energy such as offshore wind. The organization’s goal is to responsibly manage OCS energy and resources in the interest of energy independence, environmental sustainability, economic development, and national security. BOEM utilizes the expertise of scientists and technical professionals who share information and research that contributes to the bureau’s decision making. The bureau is part of the U.S. Department of Interior. BOEM’s sister agency—the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement or BSEE—enforces offshore safety, environmental and other requirements in tandem with BOEM issued leases and works closely with the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal and state agencies. BOEM has reported that OCS production accounts for approximately 18 percent of the nation’s crude oil supply and 4 percent of the domestic natural gas supply. BOEM is currently engaged in an extensive offshore wind leasing program with a number of leases already existing for wind farms off the U.S. East Coast.
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Offshore wind or OSW is a term that refers to the generation of energy using wind turbines installed over bodies of water. Unlike onshore wind farms, offshore farms typically provide higher energy production because much larger turbines can be installed offshore than on land due to stronger and more consistent winds in marine environments. The energy created by offshore wind power is a renewable energy source and produces no greenhouse gas emissions, so it is considered an important component in the transition to net-zero emissions. Offshore wind projects are regulated at both the state and federal level including environmental regulations, safety standards, and permitting and licensing requirements. The Jones Act, which regulates maritime commerce in the United States, plays a critical role in how offshore wind projects are planned and constructed in U.S. waters.