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Project Finance - August, 2018

218 articles

• Army Corps Backs DAPL Enviro Review In Row With Tribes
• What Attys Need To Know About FirstNet's Status
• New Pass-Through Deduction Will Pass Over Many Lawyers
• Texas High Court To Hear $27.7M Drilling Contract Dispute
• Trump Taps EPA Region Head To Lead Chemical Safety Office
• 8 Supreme Court Cases Energy Lawyers Should Watch
• How Reckless Judicial Impeachments Threaten Rule Of Law
• DC Circ. Won't Pause $3.5B Mountain Valley Pipeline Work
• Judging A Book: Fogel Reviews 'Good Judgment'
• Taxation With Representation: Sidley, Skadden, Norton
• A New Direction For EPA Enforcement Program
• Westinghouse WARN Plaintiffs Split Over Court Jurisdiction
• Canada Court Nixes Approval Of Trans Mountain Pipeline
• Enbridge $1B Pipeline Row Still Has Legs In Chancery Court
• 5 Key Takeaways From Calif.'s Carbon-Free Power Bill
• Pacific Drilling Financing Provisions Pared As Bonuses OK'd
• Seyfarth Snags P3 Specialist From Troutman Sanders
• Ex-NY Developer Busted After Investors Sue For $17M
• 10 Ways To Prevent E-Discovery Woes
• Alaska Sides With DOI In Enviros' Suit Over Land-Swap Deal
• Industry Backs White House NEPA Review, Enviros Skeptical
• Pa. High Court Denies 2 Sunoco Pipeline Zoning Appeals
• Attys Dodge Construction Co.'s Malpractice Suit In BP MDL
• Canada Court Tosses Exploratory Drilling Challenge
• Cos. Must Prepare For Toughening Russia Sanctions
• 2nd Circ. Restricts The FCPA's Reach
• Calif. Assembly Votes To Use Only Carbon-Free Energy By 2045
• Oakland, SF Seek 9th Circ. Revival Of Climate Change Suits
• Nautilus Solar Energy Acquires Mass., NY Portfolio
• Tribes, Enviros Tell DC Circ. $3.5B Pipeline Pause Warranted
• Pa. Energy Co. To Buy Rex Energy Out Of Ch. 11 For $600M
• Deals Rumor Mill: Yum China, Coronado Coal, Saudi Aramco
• Kaplan Co. Cleared Of Wage Theft On $6M Playground Project
• 4 Key Components To New Firm Partnership Agreements
• 2nd Circ. Rebuke May Change DOJ's FCPA Calculus
• Calif. Law Firm Must Face EB-5 Investors' Visa Handling Suit
• Puerto Rico Board Opposes Construction Wage Increase
• Nigeria Says Engineering Co.'s $9B Award Can't Be Enforced
• High Court Pressed To Undo Groundwater Permitting Ruling
• Maine City's Oil Export Ban Survives Pipeline Co. Challenge
• Navajo, States Fight Contractors' Bid To Nix Oil Spill Claims
• Deals Rumor Mill: Total, Arco, Farallon
• On Harvey Anniversary, Voters OK $2.5B Flood Bond Package
• Norton Rose, Bracewell Guide $1.4B Energy Merger
• Open The Federal Courthouses
• How FERC's July Order Affects Gas Pipelines
• Senate Dems Press Judiciary For Kavanaugh Enviro Docs
• Contractor Can't Dodge Insurer's Claims In Tribal Pipeline Row
• Texas Justices Pass On Unocal Alaska Pipeline Partners' Row
• FERC, Energy Cos. Fight Pipeline Pause Bid At DC Circ.
• FCPA Doesn't Apply To Foreigners Without US Ties: 2nd Circ.
• EPA Asks SC Court To Delay Effect Of Water Rule Decision
• Yetter Coleman Hires Ex-Sidley Austin Partner In Houston
• Unknowns Mute Buzz For NJ's Public-Private Partnership Law
• Fla. Counties Can't Block $1.15B Rail Line, DOT Argues
• Shareholders Can't Bar $6B Vectren, CenterPoint Merger Vote
• States Urge Nationwide Injunction For EPA, Corps Water Rule
• 4th Circ. Won't Halt $5B Pipeline Pending Permit Review
• Greenberg Traurig Nabs Government Contracts Shareholder
• Sabine Wins Toss Of $1.4B LNG Plant Tax Break Claims
• Canada's High Court Nixes Bid To Halt Hot-Button Pipeline
• Pa. Court Won't Broadly Ax Notification Rules For Frackers
• Puerto Rico Creditors Move To Halt Gov't Bank Restructuring
• Deny Enviros Quick Win In Alaska Land Swap Suit: DOI
• TerraForm Global Wants Option To Terminate $57M Settlement
• Level Solar Files Ch. 11 Plan Amid Calls To Convert Case
• Trump Power Plant Plan Leaves 'Loophole,' Enviros Say
• NYC Residents' L Train Shutdown Suit Dropped
• Rosneft Asks For Oversight Of Citgo Sale In $1.2B Award Row
• Deals Rumor Mill: Aramco, VW, Apple
• Wind Co. Claims Treasury Underpaid $4M From Grant Program
• Arkema Case Raises Post-Harvey Stakes For Energy Cos.
• Energy Co. Bolsters Australia Biz With $2.2B Quadrant Buy
• Crowell & Moring Lands Ex-EPA Enviro, Gov't Affairs Pro
• Ariz. Agency Shouldn't Be Forced To Buy Coal Power: Tribe
• Puerto Rico Board Blames Short-Sighted Fixes For Debt Crisis
• Microcap Issuer, 2 Men To Pay SEC $8M Over Offering Fraud
• Abengoa Unit Owes $14.7M Over Wind Farm Project, Suit Says
• 3rd Circ. Says It Can't Hear Del.'s Challenge To EPA Delay
• Exxon Investors' Climate Suit Turns Up The Heat On Oil Cos.
• Harvey Bond Vote Could Send $2.5B To Flood Control Projects
• 'High Availability' — A Key Term In Law Firm IT Strategy
• EPA's Plan To Replace CPP Sets Stage For Court Battle
• Gov't Seeks Toss Of Tribal Groups' Coal Mine Suit
• Contractor Made New Company To Duck Pension, Union Says
• Gov't Lands $5M Judgment In Solar Energy False Claims Suit
• W&T Offshore Raises $361M For Gulf Of Mexico Projects
• Citgo Trying To Delay $1.2B Venezuela Award Row, Miner Says
• Pacific Drilling Says Majority Shareholder OK'd Ch. 11 Plan
• Voluntary Calif. Tax Proposed To Fund Clean Water Projects
• EPA Blasts Navajo, States' Mine-Spill MDL Special Master Pick
• Post-Harvey Coverage Suits Fall, But Causation Rows Linger
• Rising Star: White & Case's Paul Harrison
• The 'Post-Fact' Jury In The 'Fake News' Era
• Section 45Q Tax Credit Increase May Spur Carbon Capture
• The Future Of State-Subsidized Electric Generation Resources
• 1 Year After Harvey Houston Courts Sharing Space, Making Do
• Bowles Rice, Insurer Resolve $41M Fight On Eve Of Trial
• 2nd Circ. Finds No Bias In Erie Project Contractor Termination
• PG&E Fire Liability Has Calif. Considering Ch. 11 Alternative
• UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
• Order Needed Now In Venezuela $1.2B Award Row, Miner Says
• Rising Star: Shearman & Sterling's Lachlan Poustie
• Utah Tribal Leaders Want BLM To Halt Monument Plans
• Enviro Groups Get Quick Win In Clean Water Rule Delay Row
• Insurance Co. Must Cover Contractor In Sports Complex Row
• Taxation With Representation: Akin Gump, Wachtell, Kirkland
• Judging A Book: Lipez Reviews 'Last Great Colonial Lawyer'
• Will Law Schools Start Counting 'Generation ADA'?
• Venture Global LNG Snags $160M For Natural Gas Projects
• 4th Circ. Refuses Request To Halt Atlantic Coast Pipeline
• Finnish Co. Can't Dodge Arbitration Over Engine Failure
• A Chat With Ogletree Knowledge Chief Patrick DiDomenico
• Rising Star: Covington & Burling's Ursula Owczarkowski
• China Takes Broad WTO Swipe At US Clean Energy Rules
• State Dept. Must Do New Study For New Keystone XL Route
• Calif. Court Rejects Enviros' Bid To Close Injection Wells
• US Trustee Backs Ex-CEO's Bid To Convert Level Solar Ch. 11
• Mintz Levin Snags Ex-Jeffer Mangels Enviro Pro In Calif.
• Challenge To Beckham's Miami Stadium Referendum Tossed
• Energy Dept. Promises $9M For Tribal Energy Projects
• NY Tunnel Rehab Contractor Dodges Some Race Bias Claims
• Rusoro Looks To Spark Action On $1.2B Venezuela Award
• Pipeline Operator Seeks Easements For $220M Project
• 8th Circ. Allows ND, Energy Cos. $1.3M In Fees In Minn. Row
• Rising Star: Gibson Dunn's Anita Girdhari
• Exxon Investors' Climate Suit Beats Dismissal Bid
• How One Firm Moved The Needle On Disability Inclusion
• Italian Engineering Co. Must Arbitrate Power Plant Row
• Akin, Wachtell Assist On Diamondback's $9.2B Energen Buy
• NJ Gov. Signs Bill Encouraging Public-Private Partnerships
• Feds Give Green Light For Proposed Alaska Gold Mine
• Miami's Suit Over Marlins Sale Heads Back To State Court
• Trusts' $11.7M Fuel Tax Credit Appeal Burned In DC Circ.
• Kirkland & Ellis Adds Corporate Partner In Houston Office
• Unclear Which Way Wind Blows After Reversal Of Alta Wind
• Sheppard Mullin Nabs Fried Frank Int'l Arbitration Pro In DC
• Interview Essentials For Attorneys On The Move
• David Boies On How Dyslexia Shaped His Practice
• BigLaw's Mental Health Stigma Shows Signs Of Fading
• Energy Cos. Win Nix Of Suit On Okla. Quake Insurance Costs
• Dentons Grows In Latin America With New Chilean Office
• Dominion Seeks OK For Some Atlantic Coast Pipeline Work
• Japanese Utilities Buy Stakes In $2.6B Innogy Wind Farm
• Enviros To Fight FERC's PennEast Pipeline Approval In Court
• Phillips 66 Refinery Hit With $475K Penalty Over Modifications
• Clerking For Ginsburg
• Gaining Access: Disabled Lawyers Share Their Stories
• How The Legal Industry Lets Down Lawyers With Disabilities
• FERC's Independence Under Threat, Ex-Commissioners Say
• UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
• Chinese Wind Energy Co. Can Enforce $70M Arbitration Award
• UAE Firm Targets Armenia Over Nixed Railway, Road Deal
• BIA Wants Out Of Suit Alleging Land Lease Plot
• Power Generators Inflated Energy Costs, Reseller Claims
• Pa. Drilling Law Case Could Set New Enviro Rights Standards
• Clerking For Ginsburg: 3 Surprises
• Crystallex To Get Shares Of Citgo In $1.2B Award Row
• Enviros Point 9th Circ. To Pipeline Ruling In Wind Farm Appeal
• 6th Circ. Tosses $56.5M Pistons Arena Tax Suit
• City Council Backs Rental Car Fee In San Diego-Area Dispute
• Oil & Gas Co. Wins Water Use Fight With Texas Landowner
• Oil & Gas Co. Strikes $3M Deal In Royalty Interest Row
• Thompson & Knight Guides Ajax Resources' $900M Asset Sale
• 1st Circ. Hands Win To Puerto Rico In Bond Lien Dispute
• Orsted Bolsters Wind Farm Biz With $580M Acquisition
• Clerking For Ginsburg: A Superhero Supreme
• Bowles Rice, Title Insurer Set For Trial In $41M Contract Row
• 1st Circ. Opens Path For PREPA Bondholders' Receiver Bid
• BLM Wants Input For Enviro Analysis Of Calif. Fracking
• SoCalGas Reaches $119.5M Deal In Calif. Gas Leak Litigation
• Texas Court Affirms $16M Mexico Power Plant Arbitration Win
• Enviros See Claims Trimmed In Highway Project Challenge
• Clerking For Ginsburg: 4 RBG Lessons On Having It All
• 3 Firms Steer Starwood's $2.6B GE Energy Finance Biz Deal
• Economist Urges DOI To Rethink Climate Cost Of Coal Leases
• Level Solar Grilled By Court Over Ch. 11 Case Progress
• Most Of Obama Oil And Gas Royalty Rule Kept By Wyo. Judge
• DC Circ. Keeps Helmerich Unit Out Of Rig Seizure Suit
• Opportunity Zones Abound But Investors, Tread Carefully
• FERC Says NY Officials Too Late On $455M Pipeline Permit
• Clerking For Ginsburg: How To Play The Long Game
• FERC Halts Construction Of $3.5B Mountain Valley Pipeline
• Red Stone Equity Closes $144M Real Estate Fund
• Rosneft Faces Arbitration From ExxonMobil Over $1.4B Claim
• San Diego Airport Fights Fees In Hertz Suit Against Port
• Ex-Employees' SunEdison Stock-Drop Suit Nixed Again
• Landowner Can't Revive Okla. Drill Permit Suit At 10th Circ.
• Park Service Permit For $5B Pipeline Vacated By 4th Circ.
• Pa. Justices Order Redo In Residential Drilling Challenge
• First Reserve Sells Oil, Gas Co. To Kosmos For $1.2B
• FCC Eyes Later Deadline For Challenging Coverage Maps
• Clerking For Ginsburg: In Pursuit Of Precision
• DHS Hub To Offer Cybersecurity Boost, But Cos. Still Exposed
• DC Circ. Overturns FERC Transmission Cost-Sharing Change
• PE-Backed WhiteWater, NextEra To Develop Whistler Pipeline
• SEC Ends Exxon Climate Probe Without Charges
• Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Baker, Davies, Foley
• Tutor Perini Unit Lands $121M Calif. Water Tunnel Project
• Clerking For Ginsburg: My RBG Guide To Judging
• NJ Township Wins Restoration Of Complex's Age Restrictions
• Auto Emissions Plan Puts Trump, Calif. On Collision Course
• CNA Needn't Defend Atty DQ'd From Deepwater Deal
• Lien Holders May Challenge Land Use Plans, NJ Justices Say
• Covington Snags Ex-Paul Hastings Energy Pro For SF Office
• Del. Court Tosses NextEra's $60M Admin. Claim In EFH Ch. 11
• Ineos Asks DC Circ. To Review FERC's OK Of Tariff Revisions
• Clerking For Ginsburg: 4 Things I Learned
• Trump Admin. Targets Obama Auto Emissions Standards
• Enviro Group Loses Bid To Revive State Pipeline Challenge
• NJ Targets Cos. With Pollution Suits, Some First Since '08
• Senate Grills EPA Chief On Auto Emissions, Renewable Fuels
• Enerpipe Not Liable For Worker's Accident: Texas Court
• EPA Says It Doesn't Plan To Revisit 2015 Ozone Rule
• Apollo Pledges $200M To Help Freestone Buy Water Assets
• DOI, Enviros, Tribe Ask Justices To Pass On Uranium Ban
• 4th Circ. Backs Water Permit For Mountain Valley Pipeline
• Clerking For Ginsburg: The Equality Lessons