Marvin counsels electric utilities, renewable energy companies and manufacturers, interstate and intrastate natural gas and oil pipeline companies, local distribution companies, large end-users, and energy marketers on complex transactions. He has served as regulatory counsel to energy companies on mergers, asset divestitures and acquisitions, as well as the implementation of retail choice programs. Marvin also drafts and negotiates contracts related to the purchase and sale of energy resources and related transmission and storage services.
Marvin advises energy companies in enforcement investigations and the design and implementation of regulatory compliance programs.
Marvin analyzes regulatory risk and provides regulatory advice to investment banks and private equity fund managers on energy transactions.
Marvin was a member of the U.S. government-designated Gore-Chernomyrdin committee comprised of major U.S. energy companies and energy experts advising the Russian oil and gas industry on restructuring and on revising its tariff system.
Marvin is currently Articles Editor for Energy Law Journal.
Awards & Recognitions
· Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel, Outstanding Performance Award
Professional Associations & Memberships
· American Bar Association
· Energy Bar Association
Experience
· Represented Southwestern utility on sale of its California retail electric distribution assets
· Regulatory counsel on $240 million construction and term loan for wind farm under development in Missouri
· Regulatory counsel in FERC rate proceedings to Oklahoma Panhandle electric cooperative
· Regulatory counsel to midstream natural gas company on $260 million, 40 mile, 550,000 Dth/day pipeline expansion project in Marcellus shale producing region
· Represent NYSE-listed Master Limited Partnership on over $800 million in natural gas storage cavern acquisitions
· Regulatory counsel on $2 billion, 1,800 mile, 600,000 barrels/day US-Canada oil pipeline joint venture project involving Alberta oil sand production
· Chief litigation counsel for major oil company in successful multi-million dollar oil pipeline transportation and cost recovery arbitration
News & Publications
News
5.1.09, Husch Blackwell Sanders Represents NV Energy in Agreement to Sell California Electric Assets
Publications
4.23.10, Termination of Mandatory Power Purchase Obligations Under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
2.1.97, What's New About the FERC's New Utility Merger Policy? Public Utilities Fortnightly
1.1.95, Recent Federal Initiatives to Promote the Use of Natural Gas and Unconventional Gas: High Octane Delivery or Just Hot Air? International Unconventional Gas Symposium Proceedings
1.1.86, Take-or-Pay Clauses and New Gas Supply Arrangements in Today's Gas Market, Natural Gas Journal
Events
10.26.11, Load Participation as a Resource in Energy Markets: A Solution to a Utility Problem
Washington, D.C.
Speaking Engagement
2.17.11, Whose Data Is It Anyway? Metering and New Privacy Issues
Webinar
12.1.10, The Law of Demand Response Conference
Washington, D.C.
Speaking Engagement
4.1.03, Public Enterprise Restructuring: Case Studies of the U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Industry, United States government-sponsored delegation from Bangladesh, Nepal and various African countries
Speaking Engagement
3.1.99, Bringing Regulatory Reform to the Oil and Gas Sectors of Central Asian States as a Means of Facilitating Increased Capital Investment, United States Agency for International Development program for officials from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan in Atyrau, Kazakhstan
Speaking Engagement
5.1.97, Restructuring and Convergence: Successful Strategies in the Energy Services Marketplace, Public Utilities Reports, Inc. Conference
Speaking Engagement
3.1.93, Order No. 636 and Other Federal Regulatory Developments Affecting the Natural Gas Industry, Eastern Coalbed Methane Forum Conference
Speaking Engagement