Energy and Natural Resources

Energy and natural resources clients face complex challenges involving multiple legal disciplines, from construction and transportation to finance and operations issues. Frost Brown Todd has developed a broad and diversified energy and natural resources practice, providing legal services and strategic resource to the industry throughout the Midwest and Southeast.

We represent independent power companies, investor-owned utilities (both gas and electric), electric cooperatives, coal mining companies and oil and gas producers in a variety of transactional, regulatory and litigation matters, including:

Advising power generation industry clients at every stage of project development--from planning, site acquisition, financing, construction to refinancing and operation
Retained by coal industry and oil and gas producer clients for acquisitions of mining companies and mineral reserves, procurement and financing of equipment, negotiation of fuel supply contracts, and advice on a wide variety of operational and regulatory matters
Representing producers in complex litigation arising in this area including major environmental litigation and litigation involving power purchase and fuel supply agreements

Our lawyers routinely represent clients in a variety of permitting, enforcement and other regulatory proceedings before federal, state and local regulatory agencies, including:

Kentucky Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Indiana Department of Environmental Management
Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation
Local planning and zoning commissions and environmental agencies
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
Mine Safety and Health Administration
Numerous other federal agencies

Our experience in the energy and natural resources area includes the following representative matters:

Approximately $860 million sale of coal company assets
$25 million sale of coal mining assets
$24 million issuance of industrial revenue bonds in coal company financing
Coal lease and supply arrangement involving 55 million tons of coal reserves
$42 million sale and leaseback of coal mining property and processing facilities
$140 million acquisition of coal mining assets
$25 million sale of equity interests of coal mining companies
$11 million coal mining asset purchase and $30 million related financing
$94 million acquisition of coal mining assets

Service Area Contact(s)

Warren J. Hoffmann

859.244.3220