Halloran & Sage provides a full range of services for clients in energy, telecommunications and other regulated utility industries. Members of our legal team include the former chair of the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control and other former utility regulators. We have extensive experience representing utilities before federal, state and local regulatory agencies. We are also active in legislative affairs and we played a key role in bringing about legislation allowing for deregulation and restructuring of the electric utility industry in Connecticut.
We regularly provide advice and counsel in power generation and transmission projects, energy and telecommunications restructuring and deregulation matters, siting of energy and telecommunications facilities, and related transactional and permitting assignments. Our practice includes representation of clients in traditional utility matters as well as clients involved in emerging, deregulated energy and telecommunications industries. Working in conjunction with other practice groups within the firm, including corporate and government affairs, we assist clients in developing and implementing innovative solutions to the legal issues they face.
Our attorneys handle all aspects of utility regulation in Connecticut. We also assist clients involved in commercial utility transactions, including the purchase, sale, and financing of utility assets, joint ventures and partnership agreements, project development and finance, and structuring and negotiating utility participant transactions. We represent various participants in utility transactions, including utility companies, public authorities and private business enterprises as well lenders and equity participants. Our services also include rate setting, asset disposition, mergers and acquisitions and service territory expansion for utilities and on utility-related matters.
With extensive practices in real estate and construction law, we also assist utility clients in real-estate development projects. Our experience includes representing investors and developers in structuring and documenting project financing for a variety of infrastructure projects, including cogeneration facilities, waste-processing plants and manufacturing facilities.
Rep Matters
H & S Creates and Documents Complex Contractual Mechanisms for Association of Public Utilities
Halloran & Sage represented an association of public utilities in the preparation of an agreement governing the relationship among the association’s members. The H & S team, consisting of partners Peter Boucher, James Maher and Alan Curto and associate Casey O'Connell, drafted an agreement from scratch that created numerous and complex contractual mechanisms to ensure that the interests of each of the various public utilities were adequately addressed with respect to a wide range of financing and governance issues. Halloran & Sage’s extensive experience in the areas of contract preparation, municipal law, corporate governance, and regulatory matters were all drawn upon to complete the matter within the agreed-upon timeframe and budget.
H & S Obtains Approval for an On-Site Wastewater Treatment System
Represents a world-wide construction and materials conglomerate in multi-state litigation.
CRRA v. Wheelabrator
Represented quasi-governmental agency in an arbitration commenced in the midst of contract renewal negotiations concerning a long term solid waste disposal agreement at a waste to energy plant, to enforce the terms of the original contract's renewal provision.
* Decision by May 2007
H & S Obtains Approval for an On-Site Wastewater Treatment System
Ann Catino recently obtained a favorable ruling from the Department of Environmental Protection ("DEP") for an on-site wastewater treatment system. The decision recommended approval of an application for an engineered sub-surface system with a design capacity of 34,000 gallons per day to support a proposed 102,000 square foot new YMCA facility serving the Towns of Westport and Weston, CT.
A tentative determination regarding the application was originally issued in May, 2006, but upon receipt of a petition,extensive, contested public hearings were held. After considering the testimony and information offered at the hearings and evaluating the merits of the project, the DEP hearing officer concluded that the discharge that would result if the installation were to receive a permit would adequately protect the waters of the state. A complete copy of the ruling can be accessed here.
