| Biography | Roy P. Lessy, Jr. is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP and a member of the Antitrust Practice and Energy Industry Team. He regularly provides legal counsel and litigates on behalf of regulated and non-regulated industries, including companies in the energy, technology, transportation, health care, and industrial sectors in a wide range of antitrust matters. In the energy field, he assists electric utilities, industrial companies, high-technology firms, and large engineering firms that provide services and products to the nuclear and electric utility industries. Mr. Lessy has been involved as counsel in numerous successful mergers and acquisitions and successful Hart-Scott-Rodino filings. He has successfully defended a number of DOJ civil and criminal investigations as well as FTC investigations. He has had excellent results representing clients at the trial and appellate levels involving Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act; The Clayton Act; The Federal Trade Commission Act; and The Robinson-Patman Act. In the arena of antitrust litigation, Mr. Lessy has been counsel or co-counsel in a number of high-profile antitrust cases, including some of the first cases including the development and application of U.S. v. Otter Tail Power Co., price-fixing cases, and cases involving the extra-territorial effect of the U.S. antitrust laws. In the energy area, Mr. Lessy has advised domestic and international clients on myriad issues, including nuclear energy, electric utilities, antitrust matters, environmental and land use issues, project and infrastructure development, and global security matters. He regularly counsels and litigates on behalf of nuclear licensees and electric utilities, and represents clients before federal entities, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), DOJ, and the FTC, and in federal and state courts. Mr. Lessy also helps clients navigate complex regulatory issues involving nuclear waste and nuclear contamination, and has represented a number of companies before the Department of Energy. Mr. Lessy's tenure as deputy chief hearing counsel and senior antitrust counsel of the NRC, along with his experience in private practice, has him at the forefront of matters involving nearly half of all licensed nuclear reactors in the United States. He has been involved in the purchase and/or sale of a number of nuclear plants, including due diligence reviews, license transfers, and corporate restructuring. He has also served as chief counsel and director of a special interagency task force, which involved four federal government agencies, assembled to examine radioactive waste litigation. Mr. Lessy appears before industry groups and electric utilities on management prudence issues and nuclear regulatory issues. Public policy decision-makers in the executive and legislative branches regularly call on him regarding proposed statutory developments. He has also appeared before state public utility commissions (on behalf of electric and nuclear utilities) regarding the recovery of investment in large-scale generating units and outages at nuclear and fossil-fuel generating plants. Additionally, Mr. Lessy has substantial experience in the oil and gas industry, including the representation of oil and gas exploration companies, both domestically and abroad. Mr. Lessy earned his J.D., with honors, from George Washington University and his B.A., with honors, from Franklin & Marshall College. He has done post J.D. work in antitrust and administrative law at Harvard Law School. Mr. Lessy has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system. He is included in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law, and Who's Who in the World. Mr. Lessy is a member of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association and has been a member of the Nuclear Energy Institute's Lawyers Steering Committee. Mr. Lessy is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. |