Utilities Regulation

Kean Miller represents some of Louisiana’s most prominent industrial companies and independent power producers, water, wastewater, natural gas distribution and transportation utilities, petroleum pipelines and telecommunications companies, and selected public utilities in proceedings before the Louisiana Public Service Commission (“LPSC”), City Council of New Orleans, and other state and federal agencies and courts. We also represent clients at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) and in other state and federal agencies and courts on electric regulatory issues and in regional transmission organization stakeholder processes. Our clients include large industrial users of energy, non-utility power producers, developers and marketers, intrastate and interstate pipelines, local and long-distance telecommunications providers, a municipal utility, a water utility, and a natural gas distribution utility.

Kean Miller provides advice to clients on complex M&A transaction negotiations and associated regulatory approvals, the negotiation of electric service agreements, state and federal regulatory compliance, obtaining of operating certificates, and utility rate proceedings. We also represent the interests of many of the state’s largest refineries and chemical manufacturers in regulatory proceedings before the Louisiana Pilotage Fee Commission (“LPFC”) and related court proceedings.

Kean Miller is recognized for our ability to handle the myriad of issues facing telecommunications providers in Louisiana including certification, tariff filings, reporting and regulatory compliance, informal and formal complaint proceedings, negotiation and arbitration of interconnection agreements, merger approvals, rulemaking and ratemaking proceedings, and class action litigation defense.