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Key considerations in energy take-or-pay contracts

  • King & Spalding LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 2 2013

Perhaps the most common type of off-take contract in a large scale energy project is the take-or-pay contract. A properly constructed take-or-pay

In its denial of a power plant sale, FERC sheds light on the meaning of control and the importance of mitigation

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2013

"The decision marks a rare instance of FERC flatly rejecting a proposed sale of a power plant under Section 203 of the Federal Power Act and provides

Ralls case affirms President’s broad CFIUS authority

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • China, USA
  • -
  • March 14 2013

On February 22, 2013, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed all but one claim in a lawsuit filed by Chinese-owned Ralls

FERC issues unusual tolling order on ITC Holdings Corp.Entergy merger filing

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2013

In an unusual procedural move, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC") today issued an order tolling the time for action on ITC Holdings

Guidelines from two important Delaware M&A cases

  • Reed Smith LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2011

In the past month, the Delaware Court of Chancery issued two decisions providing important guidance on directors' duties in connection with M&A transactions

Representations and warranties in energy transactions

  • King & Spalding LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 1 2011

Representations and warranties are a critical component of any energy asset acquisition and serve to allocate risk between buyer and seller

Man bites dog: Congress lobbies CFIUS on steel development joint venture

  • Sullivan & Worcester LLP
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  • China, USA
  • -
  • August 4 2010

As widely reported, 50 members of the U.S. Congressional Steel Caucus sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Geithner on July 2 asking the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to “thoroughly investigate” a Chinese investment in a Mississippi steel project on grounds that it would permit the Chinese government to exploit the American market through a U.S.-based business and possibly threaten national security

CFIUS shows new aggressiveness in ordering divestiture of wind energy farms

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 9 2012

Recent litigation an extraordinary rarity in practice before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has highlighted a new willingness on the part of the US Government to restrict parties’ activities relating to foreign acquisitions of US companies, through measures that go beyond the standard remedies of barring transactions or ordering divestiture

U.S. government financing supports Indian renewable energy projects

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
  • -
  • India, USA
  • -
  • July 24 2011

The U.S. government’s finance institution, The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), plans to invest $520 million in financing and insuring solar energy projects in India by the end of 2011

Financing renewable energy projects in the US: case studies and opportunities

  • Kaye Scholer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 8 2012

The development and rapid growth of renewable energy projects in the U.S. have been driven largely by government incentives, most of which take the form of a tax credit