Peter Fozzard, a member of Sutherland's Energy and Environmental Practice Group, focuses his practice on utility finance and project development. Peter's finance experience includes senior, second lien and subordinated commercial financings; project financing; public, pollution control and industrial revenue bond issuances; structured financings of inventories; commercial paper offerings; lines of credit; letter of credit transactions; sale and lease-leasebacks; and government-guaranteed financings. He also has experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting intermediate and long-term purchases and sales of electricity (including tolling, power purchase and load serve arrangements), as well as the construction, operation, maintenance and purchase/sale of generating assets. In addition, Peter serves on Sutherland's Climate Change law team, working with clients to identify and capitalize on opportunities and respond to business challenges impacted by climate change policies and regulations. Representative Experience Peter's extensive representative experience includes: · Serving as counsel to a renewable energy developer (biomass) in project financing. · Serving as project counsel to a generation and transmission cooperative in a combined heat and power plant co-owned with an ethanol plant and in negotiation of wind energy contracts. · Serving as counsel to electric utilities and investment banks in the development of and revisions to mortgage indentures. · Serving as counsel to generation and transmission cooperatives in their finance activities including lines of credit, long-term private and governmental financings, and commercial paper programs. · Serving as counsel to a bank regarding its national telecommunications lending activities. · Serving as counsel to a generation and transmission cooperative in the negotiation of member load serving and transmission contracts. · Serving as counsel to a power marketer in its development of power projects (including development through joint venture). Professional Honors And Awards · Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of energy (2011) · Named to The Best Lawyers in America in the area of project finance law (2007-2012) · Selected for inclusion in Georgia Super Lawyers® in the areas of banking (2007, 2011) and energy and natural resources (2007) Professional And Community Involvement · Member, American Bar Association · Member, Agriculture Law Section, State Bar of Georgia · Member, Atlanta Bar Association · Member, Leadership Georgia · Member, Leadership Atlanta · Co-chair, Board of Directors, Odyssey Inc. Industries Crude Oil and Refined Products Electric Power News Sutherland's New Blog Captures Cutting-Edge Developments in Coop Industry
May 23, 2011 Sutherland Attorneys, Practices Top Chambers USA 2011 Rankings
April 14, 2011 More than 40 Sutherland Attorneys Recognized as 2011 Georgia Super Lawyers
March 24, 2011 Sutherland Represents Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative in Acquisition of Sumpter Plant
April 5, 2010 Legal Alerts Legal Alert: Ninth Circuit Ruling that Rainwater Runoff from Logging Roads Is a Point Source Discharge Requiring NPDES Permitting Is Under Fire: Relief May Be on the Way
January 20, 2012 Legal Alert: Sierra Club Wins Challenge to RUS Approvals of Coop Plant Expansion
April 20, 2011 Legal Alert: Sierra Club Challenges RUS Lien Accommodation Regulation
August 26, 2010 Legal Alert: DOE Creates Financial Institution Partnership Program in Connection with Solicitation for Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Applications
October 12, 2009 Legal Alert: Sierra Club Challenges RUS Coal Plant Approvals
August 10, 2009 Legal Alert: Treasury Issues Guidance for Renewable Energy Grant Program
July 13, 2009 Legal Alert: Effects of the Proposed EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule on Electric Cooperatives
March 25, 2009 Legal Alert: RUS Amends Accounting Requirements; Defers Rulemaking on Accounting for Renewable Energy Credits
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