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John is the head of Pierce Atwood’s Energy Group. John enjoys a broad range of substantive experience in energy and utilities law. For many years, he has worked with a variety of clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the U.S. Department of Energy, and state public utility commissions in establishing policies and regulations related to restructuring and competition in the electric utility industry, the IPP industry, transmission access and wheeling, and other proceedings pertaining to the generation, transmission, importation, distribution, and pricing of electricity. John has been involved in all aspects of energy project development, including financing, power contract negotiations, permitting, and licensing activities. He has participated in approximately 100 non-utility power projects and associated power purchase agreements and has acted as an arbitrator in an IPP-utility power purchase agreement dispute. He has served as lead counsel in connection with the restructuring and refinancing of several large independent power projects. John also is actively involved with U.S. utilities in restructuring and with large industrial customers in preparing for a more competitive electric sector. John has substantial international experience acting as a key legal advisor to government ministries, non-governmental institutions, and private companies in many Western, Central and Eastern European and Latin American countries on a broad range of energy sector restructuring, reform and competition, privatization, and restructuring issues. He has represented the World Bank, USAID, the Asian Development Bank, and other clients and host governments in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and the Philippines. | 