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Operating in a highly regulated, competitive, and transitioning industry, energy companies need someone who understands their business. You can count on our team, which is dedicated to the energy industry, for experienced guidance on business deals and dispute resolution.

UB Greensfelder advises major energy companies in a wide range of matters, including deals, disputes, and day-to-day counsel. Some of the world’s foremost energy companies rely on our energy attorneys’ industry acumen, transactional savvy, and litigation skills for their most crucial business transactions and disputes. We frequently represent oil and gas, renewable energy, convenience retailing, and utility companies.

Who We Are

We are industry-focused transactional and litigation attorneys who focus on representing clients in transitioning energy industries. Our lawyers have worked for decades with oil and gas companies, utilities, landowners, developers, investors, lenders, and other parties with interests in the energy industry.

How We Help

We regularly assist energy clients – including oil and gas, electric, water, solar, wind, and steam generation companies – with a range of matters, including:

  • Evaluating options in the transitioning energy industry and counsel on related legal issues to pre-empt associated litigation risks.
  • Defending complex litigation disputes, evaluating early dispute resolution options, advising on dispute avoidance, and defending class actions.
  • Referencing our regularly updated surveys on the PMPA, antitrust/pricing laws, consumer protection laws, motor fuel pricing, franchise, below cost, gift cards, vaping, emergency power statutes, divorcement states, contract auto-renewal, and others.
  • Counseling clients on issues arising from increased antitrust scrutiny.
  • Addressing supply chain management challenges, force majeure issues, and compliance with declarations of states of emergency.

Why Clients Choose UB Greensfelder

Clients who have worked with us for decades tell us they choose us because of:

  • Our Competence. We understand their business and have deep knowledge of the industry and experience in energy litigation, M&A, commercial advice, and intellectual property protection and enforcement.
  • Our Credentials. We have decades of experience, a national counsel footprint, and industry leadership.
  • Our Cost-Effectiveness. We take a total cost-of-ownership approach and have the know-how to navigate legal hot spots with familiarity, efficiency, and effectiveness.

Energy Industry

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Beth M. Conran
Partner | Group Leader, Financial Services Industry
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Jason P. Conte
Partner | Partner-in-Charge, Cincinnati | Co-Group Leader, Construction
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Thadford A. Felton
Partner | Partner-in-Charge, Chicago
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Lori Pittman Haas
Partner | Group Leader, Real Estate
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Dawn M. Johnson
Partner | Co-Group Leader, Franchise Industry
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Beata Krakus
Partner | Co-Group Leader, Franchise Industry
Portrait of Kevin T. McLaughlin
Kevin T. McLaughlin
Co-Managing Partner
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Abby L. Risner
Partner | Group Leader, Energy Industry
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Jennifer L. Therrien
Partner | Co-Group Leader, Construction
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Julia M. Voss
Director of Litigation Support and eDiscovery
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Robert S. Winner
Partner | Group Leader, Cannabis Industry