Brenda serves as Barclay Damon’s Regulatory Practice Group leader, Regulatory Practice Area co-chair, and co-team leader of the renewable energy and energy markets teams. She began her career in litigation, environmental review and permitting, zoning, land use, and municipal-law matters and now primarily concentrates her practice on energy and infrastructure projects and related energy transactions. Brenda represents a wide array of clients, including renewable-energy developers and investors, electric generators, transmission line and interstate and intrastate-pipeline owners, and regulated utilities.
Brenda represents developers of transmission and generation projects in major siting and regulatory proceedings, including those involving the approval of transfer of assets and ownership interests before public-utility commissions and other administrative agencies, including the NYS Public Service Commission, FERC, DOE, and municipalities. She also represents energy-related clients in regulatory matters involving retail and wholesale-market issues and compliance with safety laws and regulations.
Brenda often counsels energy clients in the preparation and negotiation of transactional documents such as interconnection, power purchase, energy management, fuel supply, and transportation agreements. She also represents clients in all aspects of project development, including site acquisition, right-to-build and environmental issues, preparing and negotiating EPC and construction contract documents, and securing project financing and funding, including real property tax mitigation and development incentives.