Holland & Hart LLP

Electric Generation

As governments and companies strive to meet growing international demand for electricity, integrated and seamless legal support is critical.  The private sector's increased involvement in facilities development and ownership coupled with the public sector's continuing need for those facilities necessitates cost-effective, creative, and timely advice in all phases of electric generation projects.

Our attorneys have represented clients in developing, financing, and licensing gas-fired, coal-fired, waste-to-energy, hydropower and wind power projects.  We can take a client from conception, through feasibility, planning, financing and construction, to licensing, operation, maintenance and transfer of ownership.  Our capabilities also include the expansion of existing facilities and systems, and the due diligence, documentation and negotiation of many aspects of project acquisition and divestiture.

We have represented electric generation developers and projects in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Columbia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Venezuela and throughout the United States.

Electric Transmission

Few projects compare in scope, complexity, and challenge to the construction of a major electric transmission facility.  With millions or even billions of dollars at stake, a transmission project developer cannot afford anything less than first rate legal representation.  Holland & Hart has the experience, depth, and expertise to handle the variety of obstacles that stand between an innovative concept and a successful electric transmission project.

Holland & Hart has been a leader in electric transmission issues for years.  Our lawyers have participated in region-wide transmission initiatives (such as the Rocky Mountain Area Transmission Study (RMATS)) and state and federal regulatory proceedings.  Wyoming Governor Freudenthal recognized our expertise when he appointed a Holland & Hart attorney to serve on the Board of the Wyoming Infrastructure Authority.

Our attorneys can take a client from conception, through feasibility, planning, financing and construction, to licensing, operation, maintenance and transfer of ownership.  We have experience handling the public aspects of a project including government relations and regulatory compliance.  Further, we also have a leading group of public lands and environmental lawyers with particular expertise in siting of linear facilities, environmental compliance, NEPA and related environmental reviews, and endangered species issues.

Holland & Hart's Statement of Commitment to Diversity
We are proud of our tradition of fostering and maintaining a work environment in which the diversity of each individual is valued and celebrated. We believe that the contributions of each individual are essential to our continued growth and to our ultimate goal of providing excellent quality legal services to our clients, with greater creativity and innovation. We are committed to taking full advantage of the rich backgrounds and abilities of our people and to promoting a greater diversity whenever and wherever possible.

Diversity Pledge
Holland & Hart is committed to promoting diversity by:

• Making every possible effort to recruit, hire, retain, and promote diverse persons at all levels of employment.
• Promoting greater sensitivity to the value of racial, ethnic and other forms of diversity, through diversity and sensitivity coaching or training for law firm members.
• Inviting to partnership diverse attorneys who meet the requisite criteria.

Diversity Initiatives
The following are additional examples of our commitment and efforts toward supporting and achieving diversity:

• We make a conscious effort to ensure that women and diverse attorneys are included as voting members of our committees of importance within the firm.
• We work closely with law school deans and placement directors in an effort to identify women and diverse law students who are interested in working at Holland & Hart.
• Holland & Hart offers medical and other benefits to partners of gay and lesbian employees on the same terms as it does to spouses of employees.
• We created an Indian Law Practice Group and actively recruited Native American law students and lateral hires.
• Each year we contribute to such scholarship funds as the Colorado Native American Indian Scholarship Fund, the Sam Cary Scholarship Endowment Fund, the Colorado Asian American Bar Scholarship Fund, the Colorado Hispanic Bar Scholarship Fund, and the Colorado Women's Bar Association Scholarship Fund.
• In partnership with the University of Idaho School of Law, we sponsor a "Law by Day, Jazz by Night" each year for undergraduate minority students who have an interest in law.
• We took a leadership role in organizing and supporting the Colorado Pledge Group's Minority First Year Law Student Summer Clerk Program. Through this program, law firms agreed to add at least one diverse first year law student to their summer clerk program.
• We were involved in the creation of the Cross-Professional Business Networking Group, where diverse attorneys in our community can meet and network with non-attorney professionals of color. We view this as a way to help diverse attorneys increase their business development possibilities.

For more information regarding Holland & Hart's commitment to diversity, please contact Peter Houtsma at (303) 295-8259.