Hunton & Williams LLP

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Hunton & Williams LLP provides legal services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals, as well as to a broad array of other entities. Since our establishment more than a century ago, Hunton & Williams has grown to nearly 1,000 lawyers serving clients in 100 countries from 18 offices around the world. While our practice has a strong industry focus on energy, financial services and life sciences, the depth and breadth of our experience extends to more than 100 separate practice areas, including bankruptcy and creditors rights, commercial litigation, corporate transactions and securities law, intellectual property, international and government relations, regulatory law, products liability, and privacy and information management.

General Civil Practice. Litigation, Corporation and Banking, Energy and Environmental Law, Public Utilities, Antitrust, Taxation, Municipal Bond, Labor, Biotechnology, Estate Planning, Real Estate Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Asset Securitization, Bankruptcy, Construction and Procurement, Employee Benefits, Franchising, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Land Use and Zoning, Loan Workouts, Mergers and Acquisitions, Patent, Project Finance and Leveraged Leasing, Syndications and Joint Ventures, Telecommunications, Venture Capital, International Arbitration.

FERC Proposes to Reduce Regulatory Requirements for Small Power Production Qualifying Facilities
Laura Ellen Jones, Audrey C. Louison, Linda L. Walsh, November 4, 2009
On October 15, 2009, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") issued a proposed rulemaking that would all but eliminate the regulatory burden for small power production qualifying facilities ("QFs") of 1 MW or less. If approved, FERC's new regulations will, among other...

IRS Issues Revised Guidance for Wind-Energy Partnerships
David S. Lowman, Laura Ellen Jones, Timothy L. Jacobs, September 24, 2009
On September 21, 2009, the Internal Revenue Service (the "Service") issued Announcement 2009-69 (the "Announcement"), revising its prior guidance on wind-energy partnerships, Revenue Procedure 2007-65 (the "Revenue Procedure"). The Revenue Procedure sets forth the...

SEC Proposes Pay-to-Play Rules--Restricts Political Contributions and Prohibits Certain Uses of Placement Agents
James S. Seevers, Cyane B. Crump, September 15, 2009
On August 3, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") proposed for comment new Rule 206(4)-5 (the "Proposed Rule") under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act") relating to "pay-to-play" practices among investment advisers,...

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