Practice Expertise

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy M&A
  • Energy Regulation
  • FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Power and Energy Capital Markets
  • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
  • Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure
  • Sustainability and Corporate Clean Power
  • View More

Profile

Bud’s practice focuses on both regulated and non-regulated entities in the global power markets.

Bud represents energy companies and investment banks in public and private capital markets transactions, which involve both taxable and tax-exempt securities.

Relevant Experience

  • Represented corporate clients in the acquisition and divestiture of energy companies, and energy assets in the US and the UK.
  • Worked with power companies located in the UK and Australia in US capital markets transactions.
  • Represented underwriters and financial advisers in the recapitalization of US utility companies subject to reorganization pursuant to state restructuring legislation.
  • Experienced in structured financings and synthetic leases involving power production facilities and other assets used by power producers.

Bar Admissions

  • New York

Education
BA, University of Oklahoma, 1975

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy M&A
  • Energy Regulation
  • FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Power and Energy Capital Markets
  • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
  • Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure
  • Sustainability and Corporate Clean Power

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Represented corporate clients in the acquisition and divestiture of energy companies, and energy assets in the US and the UK.
  • Worked with power companies located in the UK and Australia in US capital markets transactions.
  • Represented underwriters and financial advisers in the recapitalization of US utility companies subject to reorganization pursuant to state restructuring legislation.
  • Experienced in structured financings and synthetic leases involving power production facilities and other assets used by power producers.


Professional Associations
  • Chairman, Infrastructure Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, American Bar Association

Professional Activities and Experience
  • Ranked in Chambers USA as Leading Individual, Energy: Electricity (Finance), Band 1, 2007-2017
  • Ranked in Chambers Global: USA, Energy: Electricity (Finance), Band 1, 2015


Articles

  • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
  • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, ABA Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law
  • Report of the Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions Committee, Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Law, ABA
  • The Evolving Public Interest – Recent Decisions in Utility Merger Proceedings, Infrastructure
  • Recent Developments in Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries, Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law, ABA
  • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, ABA Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law
  • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
  • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
  • Recent Developments in Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries, Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Law, ABA
  • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
  • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA

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