Category: Energy

Renewable Energy Credits: Representations and Warranties Every Buyer Should Ask For

When buying renewable energy credits (RECs), purchasers should make sure to negotiate a short but critical set of REC-focused representations and warranties. These representations and warranties are promises regarding the REC itself or the seller’s ownership of the REC. The purpose of these promises is to set out the parties’ expectations as to the nature...

Recent Bankruptcy Court Decision May Illuminate Whether Electricity Will Be Considered a Good Entitled to Priority Status in Future Cases

I give the experimentalist’s answer to the very fundamental but very familiar query: “What is electricity?” His answer is naïve, but simple and definite.  He admits at once that as to the ultimate nature of electricity he knows nothing. – Robert Millikan, American Nobel Laureate in Physics Courts are sometimes required to ponder difficult...

Outside Counsel Solutions Names Shanah Glick as Head of Its Derivatives and Energy Practice Groups

NEW YORK, September 1, 2010 – Outside Counsel Solutions LLP, a full-service law firm, announced that Shanah Glick has become the head of the Derivatives and Energy practice groups.  She was previously a partner at the New York law firm of Richards, Kibbe & Orbe LLP. Shanah will lead the attorneys in her practice groups in the negotiation of sophisticated...

Outside Counsel Solutions adds Tax Attorney Devorah Pomerantz to its Derivatives, Energy, and Tax Groups

Outside Counsel Solutions, a full-service law practice, announced today that tax attorney Devorah Pomerantz has joined the New York office.  She was previously at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Devorah will be joining OCS’s Derivatives, Energy and Tax practice groups. Devorah has nearly 15 years of tax experience, having previously...