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Recorded on: Feb. 12, 2013

AMY TAUB: Thank you. Hello, my name is Amy Taub. And I am a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, FERC-- Policing the Physical Energy Markets. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials for this briefing via the Course Handbook tab in the ...

Recorded on: Oct. 22, 2012

MICHAEL E. MEYER: OK. We're going to start. And it's my pleasure to formally introduce to you Alan Whitson, who is going to talk about green leases. I've always known and admired Alan because he chaired the Model Green Lease Task Force which recently released a Model Green Lease, and I've dealt with him on numerous occasions. I don't think there's anybody who knows more about green leases than Alan. But when you read people's bios, which are all ...

Recorded on: Sep. 19, 2012

MEGAN: Now, it is with great pleasure that I introduce to you the chair of today's program, Patrick J O'Connor, Jr. Pat is a partner with the international law firm of Faegre & Benson LLP. Mr. O'Connor's practice focuses on construction, suretyship and insurance. He also acts as a mediator, arbitrator, and expert witness in construction disputes. Mr. O'Connor is author of Bruner & O'Connor on Construction Law, a seven volume construction ...

Recorded on: Aug. 23, 2012

AMY TAUB: Greetings. My name is Amy Taub and I'm a program attorney with PLI. I would like to welcome you to today's briefing, Contracts for Green Buildings, Solving the Split Incentive Problem and Contracting Well for Green Performance. Before we begin, I have some administrative announcements. This briefing will be one hour in length. Please feel free to send questions at any time during the briefing. Please remember that you have access to materials ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

SPEAKER 1: Well, it's 3 o'clock, so we can start the last segment of our program. I'm very pleased that my law partner, Jim Altman in the New York office of Bryan Cave has agreed to speak to us today. It's a sign of how complex the legal profession is that even lawyers like me need a lawyer, and Jim is my lawyer. And when I run into a sticky situation, which happens, you know, infrequently, meaning once every few years, I go to Jim and he tells me ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: Well, we're up to our next segment of the program which is on environmental disclosure and environmental enforcement. And we have two speakers. The first will be on environmental disclosure that will be Betty Moy Huber. She's with the New York City law firm Davis, Polk & Wardwell. Which is one of the top corporate and capital markets law firms in the city. And Betty is the co-head in the environmental group at Davis Polk. She ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP KARMEL: --water quality, hydrofracking, and vapor intrusion. So it's a bit of a grab bag of different issues. I'm very pleased that we have such a distinguished panel that will be presenting this afternoon. The first presenter will be Kathy Robb. She's a partner in the New York office of Hunton & Williams. Her practice focuses on environmental law, and in particular litigation at the state and federal level pertaining to water, and to ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: The next segment of the program is environmental due diligence and drafting environmental provisions in business and real estate transactions. We have three people who will be speaking. The first is Joyce Schlesinger. Joyce is another member of ENVIRON International. The same top-notch environmental consulting firm that David Thomas was from. And Joyce founded the due diligence practice group at ENVIRON, where she's been a consultant ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP E. KARMEL: If our next panel could come up. The next set of speakers will be discussing practical aspects of managing compliance. So we have the Code of Federal Regulations and the state counterparts fill up multiple bookshelves, and corporations have very complicated operations. So how does this all get done as a practical matter? And that's what this panel is going to be discussing. We have two speakers. And this is going to be done as a ...

Recorded on: Apr. 13, 2012

PHILIP KARMEL: We're now going to stop talking about things in general, and talk about climate change in particular. The topic of my presentation is regulatory developments in the climate change arena. And if you talk about climate change, you have to always have the science introduction. And since most people are familiar with this already, we're going to do this very quickly. We have the sun and the earth. Rays from the sun hit the earth. Much ...

Recorded on: Feb. 25, 2012

WILLIAM TANENBAUM: So we're going to go. So I'm now going to introduce the next panel. And the next panel is focusing on two areas. One is contractual documents and key contract provisions. And the second one is on the emerging antitrust issues. I'd like to introduce the two speakers who will address these issues. First, I'm very pleased to introduce my partner, Madeleine Tan, who will address the contractual documents subject matter. Madeleine ...

Recorded on: Feb. 25, 2012

WILLIAM TANENBAUM: Well, I'm now going to make the introduction for our next panel. The title of the panel is The Financing Landscape: What's New, What's Different, and What's in the Future. And we have two very prominent in excellent speakers for this presentation is my pleasure to introduce them to you. The first is Greg Neichin. He's the executive vice president of the Cleantech Group where he leads the firm's global research and advisory activities. ...

Recorded on: Feb. 25, 2012

WILLIAM A. TANENBAUM: It's my pleasure to introduce one of the two speakers for this panel. The second one is myself. And I'm still Bill Tanenbaum. Let me introduce to you David Pearson. David leads the Cleantech practice at Deloitte as its global leader. Deloitte has more than 1,000 specialized Cleantech practitioners that deliver services to diverse, exciting, and fast-growing clients in the area of sustainability. As the global lead, David is ...

Recorded on: Feb. 25, 2012

SPEAKER: We're now ready to start our next session, which is entitled Tax Issues in Financing Alternative Energy Projects and Mainstream Companies Use of Clean Tech. We have two speakers today, and I'm pleased to introduce them. Let me first introduce David Burton of Akin Gump. David focuses his practice on tax aspects of energy transactions with a particular emphasis on renewable energy sector industries. He has extensive experience structuring ...

Recorded on: Feb. 25, 2012

MICHAEL B. GERRARD: Thank you very much. I appreciate the introduction. I'm primarily going to be talking about the legal drivers behind clean technology. And by clean technology, I'm going to be focusing on renewable energy and energy efficiency, although I'll also talk about some issues with transmission technology and smart grid, advanced coal, and a few others. But before I start with the legal drivers, I want to spend a few minutes on the legal ...