Nuclear Energy
Haynes Boone’s Nuclear Energy Group integrates vast experience across a breadth of legal areas and jurisdictions to provide exceptional counsel at every stage of the modern nuclear project lifecycle. We have decades of experience representing developers, investors and lenders to the entire spectrum of energy technology projects, including natural gas, LNG, wind, solar, geothermal, hydropower, battery energy storage systems (BESS), hydrogen, ammonia, biogas, landfill gas, and nuclear. The challenges facing modern developers, investors, and lenders pursuing advanced nuclear power projects requires a legal team with a proactive, cross-disciplinary and collaborative approach that Haynes Boone provides each of our clients. From engineering, design and development, into permitting, finance, construction and interconnection, through market participation, operation, maintenance, tax credits, and waste management, all the way through decommissioning or license extensions, our role is to anticipate and eliminate obstacles for your project. Attorneys in our Nuclear Energy Group, in both the U.S. and the UK, bring their diverse skills to solve your legal hurdles, allowing you to focus on the technical issues. Our clients benefit from Haynes Boone’s longstanding work relationships with country counsel from more than 50 jurisdictions worldwide, which enables our attorneys to deliver coordinated results and seamless assistance across multiple jurisdictions.
CAPITAL MARKETS AND SECURITIES
The Haynes Boone capital markets and securities lawyers deliver strategic, business-focused legal solutions tailored to the unique needs of clients in the nuclear energy sector. We routinely provide comprehensive advice to clients on a broad spectrum of securities transactions, including initial public offerings, private placements, cross-border financings, registered direct offerings, at-the-market offerings, and more. The team works collaboratively to provide clients guidance through complex corporate governance matters, exchange listings, and regulatory reporting requirements across a variety of industries. For example, Haynes Boone is counsel to some of the world’s largest uranium mining companies, offering sophisticated advice that helps these organizations navigate volatile markets, ensure regulatory compliance, and achieve their long-term growth objectives.
CONSTRUCTION
No matter the project delivery system or contract vehicle, our lawyers have extensive experience reviewing and drafting, negotiating, and supporting the administration of construction contracts and documents of many different types, for owners, contractors, design firms, and equipment providers in both the public and private sectors. Our firm has a comprehensive practice in dispute avoidance and resolution before all forums, with a successful history leveraging alternative dispute resolution. Haynes Boone attorneys have a thorough understanding of the differences between the various contract vehicles and project delivery systems, and how they are used to shift and allocate risk between parties, and provide our clients with informed risk mitigation strategies.
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Our crisis management team has wide-ranging experience representing clients through all stages of crisis—from prevention, planning, and training to rapid response and long-term recovery. Our team provides counsel designed to meet each client’s unique goals and challenges. Because the best crisis is the one that never occurs, and because government agencies often expect robust pre-planning, our attorneys work first to help companies develop policies, procedures, and training aimed at incident prevention. Haynes Boone has experience developing and facilitating the implementation of compliance programs for companies in complex, evolving, and highly regulated industries.
DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Simply put: We know how to resolve disputes. As an industry leader in alternative dispute resolution, the Haynes Boone team view adversary proceedings in court, before ALJs, or in arbitration as just one tool of many to “get to yes.” Our disputes lawyers are experts in advocacy, each with extensive experience resolving cases in their practice areas indicative of their deep subject matter expertise.
ENERGY REGULATORY
We represent a wide variety of clients in the energy industry, from independent power producers and utilities to large end users, electric cooperatives, municipalities, and financial institutions. The Haynes Boone team routinely handles client matters involving numerous regulatory agencies at the federal, state, and local level in the U.S. and abroad and has completed hundreds of filings before such agencies in support of efforts at virtually every aspect of energy regulation including rate making, compliance investigations, electric reliability standards, mergers and acquisitions, regulation of market operations, independent power producers and qualifying facility regulation, tariffs and rate schedules, and related waivers or exemptions. With over three decades of dedicated experience in energy, power, natural resources, and renewables, the Haynes Boone team has a thorough understanding of the regulatory environment – a necessary quality for effectively and efficiently closing deals.
ENVIRONMENTAL
We take a hands-on approach to environmental law, understanding our clients’ business activities as well as the laws that regulate them. The Haynes Boone team skillfully closes deals, negotiates with government regulatory agencies, and litigates disputes regularly— ensuring meaningful outcomes for our clients. The environmental community in general, and regulatory agencies in particular, respect our reputation for high-quality work, our credibility, our professional contributions to the practice of environmental law, and the caliber of the clients we represent.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
Our team represents a diverse clientele, ranging from individuals to the largest government contractors, counseling them in the development of robust compliance policies or litigating disputes before a multitude of venues. Our expertise spans all stages of the project lifecycle. We are well versed in non-traditional contracting vehicles, including Other Transaction awards, and support our clients by identifying and strategically avoiding common pitfalls facing large, complex infrastructure practices. Haynes Boone attorneys have a deep familiarity with the practices and procedures of the Departments of Energy and War, as well as the offices and agencies at all levels of government that engage in the funding and procurement of a full spectrum of projects, allowing us to elevate our practice by incorporating the perspectives of both industry and the government.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Clients rely on us to protect, enforce, defend, and monetize their innovations. Haynes Boone attorneys have filed more than 19,000 patent applications in the U.S. and abroad in the past five years. We manage sophisticated intellectual property portfolios as well as complex and extremely technical patent applications. Our patent lawyers have practical experience working as engineers, programmers, and technical salespeople, many with in-house counsel experience at technology companies or as examiners at the U.S. PTO. Haynes Boone’s IP and trademark practices implement the team’s outstanding technical acumen and a diversity of perspectives to protect our clients’ assets.
PERMITTING AND COMPLIANCE
Haynes Boone attorneys counsel clients in regulatory permitting and compliance obligations, developing cost effective and practical solutions to complex regulatory regimes, based on our extensive experience, thorough knowledge of applicable law, and the policies and practices of regulatory agencies. Our practice is broad, involving all substantive areas of environmental law, including storage and transportation of hazardous materials, site remediation, land use, and leasing, relating to both the construction of new facilities and ongoing operations. The Haynes Boone team supports our clients by monitoring and providing guidance on evolving regulations and pertinent agency rulemaking. We represent clients before regulatory agencies in negotiations or related administrative and judicial litigation, devising innovative methods to identify regulatory risks and mitigation plans, structuring and negotiating transactions such as those for Brownfield properties and related regulatory programs, and support the development and implementation of compliance programs.
PROJECT FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT
From early-stage design, engineering, and development and regulatory permitting analysis through financing, and more, we provide each of our clients with a hand-picked team that has experience across all major disciplines that affect pursuit of a successful project. We prioritize client solutions, delivering a methodological approach across a wide range of project work, including work with government agencies active in grants, loans, and project finance and emerging market investment, plus regulatory representation before federal, state, and local agencies applicable to many different energy technologies. The Haynes Boone team collaborates with our clients to develop creative, solution-oriented approaches, customized to each project’s needs, and provide guidance to anticipate and mitigate future obstacles.
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