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… and Eric Snyder earned individual rankings for their litigation prowess. McCool was ranked in Litigation: Trial Lawyers and Snyder was ranked in Corporate Crimes & Investigations (Latin America - International Counsel).

McGuireWoods — a top law firm in the renewables industry — served as lead counsel to Sol Systems in the $345 million financing of the historic Tilden Solar project, a 182-megawatt solar facility in Randolph County, Illinois. The project will transform a 1,050-acre subsurface mine site into a renewable energy asset that will produce enough clean energy to power approximately 33,800 Illinois homes annually. McGuireWoods lawyers from multiple practices and offices advised Sol …

McGuireWoods advised client Constellation in negotiating a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft to launch the Crane Clean Energy Center, restarting Constellation’s Three Mile Island (TMI) Unit 1 in Pennsylvania to produce carbon-free energy for Microsoft’s data centers. If regulators approve the agreement, the nuclear power facility is expected to be online by 2028. Constellation’s TMI Unit 1 operated at industry-leading levels of safety and reliability before being retired …

… Richmond; Samuel Tarry of Tysons Project financeBrian Kelly of Baltimore; Timothy Callahan of Chicago; Durham McCormick of Houston; D. Brennen Keene and Doug Lamb of Richmond Real estate financeWilliam Seligman and Alice Youngbar of Century City; Dennis Mensi and Craig Harmon of New York Tax: not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations)Gerald V. Thomas II of Atlanta; Jean Gordon Carter of Raleigh; Michele McKinnon and Alec Sauble of Richmond Tax: U.S …

… San FranciscoTransport: rail and road – litigation and regulation Eric Bilik, Christopher Thanner and Sean Walsh of Jacksonville; Bryan Brantley and Natalie Zagari of Pittsburgh; Davis Walsh of RichmondTransport: shipping – litigation and regulation John Padgett and Jeanne Noonan of Norfolk; Bryan Brantley of Pittsburgh

… will be recognized on April 25, 2023, at the BWI Hilton in Linthicum Heights, Maryland.

McGuireWoods earned recognition for its U.S. energy regulatory and transactional work as well as its banking and finance, restructuring, and labor and employment capabilities in Chambers and Partners’ 2023 Global Guide. In addition, nine partners attained individual rankings based on feedback from clients and practitioners. Chambers again ranked McGuireWoods in the Energy: Electricity (Transactional) and Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation) categories, reflecting the depth and breadth of the firm’s experience in both areas. Deputy …

McGuireWoods represented EDF Trading Holdings LLC in the sale of EDF Energy Services (EDFES), a leading supplier of power, natural gas and related services to commercial and industrial customers across the United States, to BP. EDFES is the retail business of EDF Trading North America. Its customers are primarily large corporations and public entities, including retailers, universities, manufacturers and producers, municipalities and power generators. The acquisition expands BP’s capability to deliver energy and additional …

… advises on cross-jurisdictional matters involving other regulatory bodies. One respondent called Symons, “a very good writer with a ton of institutional expertise. He's also a really strong technical FERC practitioner." Symons also was hailed as an “an out-of-the-box thinker who comes up with creative solutions.”In addition, partner Michael Woodard was ranked in the Projects: Power & Renewables: Transactional category. The chair of the firm’s M&A and Energy …

McGuireWoods partners Brian Kelly and Michael Woodard and associate Emilie McNally were interviewed in the May/June issue of Corporate Counsel Business Journal. The team discussed the economic and regulatory climate for renewable energy and how the Texas power grid failure, the pandemic and the Biden administration’s energy priorities affect the outlook. One of the biggest opportunities for renewable energy companies will come from redeveloping former coal-fired power plants. Kelly, leader of McGuireWoods …

… of Chicago North Carolina – Brian Barger and Bruce Steen of Charlotte Virginia – Dana Rust of Richmond Litigation: General Commercial Maryland – Ava Lias-Booker of Baltimore North Carolina – Douglas W. Ey Jr. and Bradley R. Kutrow of Charlotte Virginia – Jonathan Blank of Charlottesville Texas – Ronald Franklin of Houston Litigation: Medical Malpractice Defense North Carolina – Mark Anderson of Raleigh Litigation: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations Illinois – Christina Egan of Chicago Virginia – John Adams and Richard Cullen …

McGuireWoods partner Brian Kelly, head of the firm's energy industry team, was quoted in a March 11, 2021, S&P Global Market Intelligence article titled “Watershed February Freeze Upends Booming ERCOT Wind Hedge Market.”The article examined the upheaval created by hedge contracts, the preferred contract structure in Texas, after a February 2021 freeze in the Electric Reliability Council of Texas Inc. (ERCOT) region caused billions of dollars of losses for power plant owners …

McGuireWoods represented Scottish private equity firm Clyde Blowers Capital (CBC) in an agreement to sell Cone Drive, a Michigan-based industrial gearing manufacturer, to The Timken Company. Terms of the deal were not disclosed and the transaction remains subject to government and regulatory approvals.Baltimore office managing partner and M&A lawyer Cecil Martin III led the McGuireWoods team and McGuireWoods London partner Jeremy Davis handled UK aspects of the deal. Partners Brian Kelly in …

A first-year law student’s recent eight-week internship in both McGuireWoods’ Baltimore office and firm client Exelon Corp.’s in-house legal department was featured in a story published on the front page of the Maryland Daily Record on July 28. Partner Brian Kelly helped organize the internship program, which stemmed from McGuireWoods’ and Exelon’s involvement in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

A feature story about the arrival of partner Brian Kelly to McGuireWoods was published June 18 on Law360.

McGuireWoods LLP announced today that it has expanded its Energy and Environmental Department with the addition of Brian J. Kelly, who will serve as a partner in the firm’s Baltimore office. Kelly’s practice includes global energy and infrastructure development, mergers and acquisitions, and project finance transactions. He has experience in structuring, negotiating and drafting power purchase, tolling and joint development agreements, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, fuel supply and transportation agreements, and related …