Peter Rodgers is a member of Sutherland's Energy and Environmental Practice Group and also serves as a member of Sutherland's Executive Committee. He is an adviser to energy industry clients on commodity regulatory issues, commercial matters, compliance issues and transactions. His experience extends to the energy policy matters and the regulatory and trade laws that govern the energy business. Peter represents a broad spectrum of U.S. and international energy companies. In addition to U.S. firms, his clients include significant European and Asian companies trading petroleum, natural gas and electricity. Peter also works with leading nuclear energy companies. He is counsel to several major investment banking companies and a number of power marketers and power project developers. Peter also heads the Sutherland's Energy Compliance Team and works regularly with the firm's energy clients on internal and external investigative matters. He has served as an expert witness on the environmental laws that affect fuel products and frequently speaks on energy policy and environmental topics, including oil spill management. Recent Publications and Speaking Engagements · Author, "Energy and Environmental Trading: Law and Tax Implications" considering the Development of Exchange Traded Derivatives (2008) · Speaker, Sutherland Webinar: "Petroleum Price Gouging and Market Manipulation 101: A Guide to Understanding the Current Regulations, Enforcement and Investigations," (June 16, 2011) · Speaker, "CFTC Position Limits," Argus Oil Market Regulation Summit 2010 (September 1, 2010) · Speaker, Argus Americas Crude Summit (January 26-28, 2010) · Speaker, "Energy and Agriculture: Speculation, Manipulation and Regulation," FIA 31st Annual Law & Compliance Division Workshop (May 13-15, 2009) · Speaker, Energy in the Southeast Conference (June 12-13, 2008) · Speaker, 29th Annual Futures Industry Association (FIA) Law & Compliance Division Workshop (May 9-11, 2007) · Speaker, Energy Bar Association Houston Chapter CFTC Compliance Luncheon (March 14, 2007) · Speaker, on the role of biofuels in the energy markets, Platts Conference (November 14-15, 2005) Industries Crude Oil and Refined Products Electric Power Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) News Sutherland Partnership Makes Leadership Changes
May 9, 2011 Legal Alerts Legal Alert: EPA Issues Notice of Violation of the Renewable Fuel Standard for Generation of 48 Million Fraudulent RINs Worth Approximately $62 Million
February 2, 2012 Legal Alert: ISDA and SIFMA Attack Position Limits in First Challenge to CFTC Rulemaking Under the Dodd-Frank Act
December 7, 2011 Legal Alert: EPA Issues Notices of Violation of the RFS to Twenty-Four Parties
November 7, 2011 Legal Alert: SEC Staff Evaluating the Use of Derivatives by Funds
March 26, 2010 Legal Alert: New ISDA Papers on Collateral Practices
March 18, 2010 Legal Alert: CFTC Proposes Position Limits for Major Energy Commodities
January 14, 2010 Legal Alert: EPA's New Airborne Lead Standard: What Lies Ahead and How Will it Affect Business
October 22, 2008 Legal Alert: House Financial Services Subcommittee Approves the Insurance Information Act of 2008 to Create an Office of Insurance Information
October 10, 2008 Legal Alert: Moving Forward with the Bailout - The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 Becomes Law
October 3, 2008 Legal Alert: Renewable Energy Tax Credit Extensions Enacted
October 3, 2008 Legal Alert: Progress on the "Bailout" Proposal - The Senate Passes an Expanded Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
October 2, 2008 Legal Alert: The Evolving "Bailout" Proposal - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
September 29, 2008 Legal Alert: EPA Issues Advance Notice of Climate Change Rulemaking
July 15, 2008 Legal Alert: Sutherland Forms Regulatory Reform Task Force
June 12, 2008 Legal Alert: CFTC Amends Commission Recordkeeping Rule with Goal of Improving Market Oversight
October 30, 2007 Legal Alert: FERC and CFTC Enforcement Actions on Manipulation in the Natural Gas Markets
August 3, 2007 Platts' Oil blog, The Barrel, publishes Sutherland editorial on price-gouging legislation
July 16, 2007 Legal Alert: Second Circuit Sends MTBE Actions Back to State Court
June 5, 2007 Legal Alert: FERC Stepping Up Enforcement Efforts
June 1, 2007 Legal Alert: FERC Adopts Enforcement Policy Statement and Proposes Anti-Manipulation Rules and Audit Protections
October 25, 2005 Events 2011 Argus U.S. Oil Market Regulation Summit
September 27, 2011 Petroleum Price Gouging and Market Manipulation 101: A Guide to Understanding the Current Regulations, Enforcement and Investigations
June 16, 2011 Argus Oil Market Regulation Summit 2010
September 1, 2010 Argus Americas Crude Summit
January 26-28, 2010 FIA 31st Annual Law & Compliance Division Workshop
May 13-15, 2009 Energy in the Southeast Conference
June 12-13, 2008 29th Annual Futures Industry Association ("FIA") Law & Compliance Division Workshop
May 9-11, 2007 Energy Bar Association Houston Chapter CFTC Compliance Luncheon
March 14, 2007 Platts Conference
November 14-15, 2005 Client Groups Electric Power Producers Energy Trading, Marketing & Financial Companies |