Practice Expertise

  • Energy
  • Energy and Environmental Litigation
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy Litigation

Areas of Practice

  • Energy
  • Energy and Environmental Litigation
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy Litigation
  • Energy M&A
  • Energy Regulation
  • Energy Sector Security Team
  • FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
  • National Security
  • Natural Gas
  • Oil & Gas Disputes
  • Oil, Gas and LNG
  • Pipeline
  • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
  • Renewable Energy and Clean Power
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Profile

Shemin is the former Managing Partner of the Washington, DC office of Andrews Kurth Kenyon, and she divides her time between the Washington and Houston offices.

She represents major energy companies, including natural gas and oil pipelines, energy marketing and trading companies, and midstream service providers, in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and has represented natural gas pipelines before the federal courts. Shemin has counseled clients in numerous rate, restructuring, tariff, certificate, complaint and enforcement matters in natural gas, oil and electric proceedings before the FERC, other agencies and federal courts. Shemin also works with clients seeking to construct natural gas storage and liquefied natural gas facilities. In addition, she has counseled energy companies on natural gas matters arising from bankruptcy and has experience in the antitrust area. She also has significant experience counseling clients on regulatory considerations in public offerings and M&A transactions.

Representative Experience

  • Underwriters in an NYSE-listed pipeline company’s public offering of $900 million of fixed-rate reset cumulative redeemable perpetual preferred units

  • Initial purchasers counsel in connection with $100 million Rule 144A private placement of senior notes of a limited liability company owned 50% by an affiliate of an NYSE-listed, midstream company and 50% by an affiliate of an NYSE-listed, power company
  • Lead counsel for major interstate natural gas pipeline in litigated complaint, rate, certificate and tariff proceedings before FERC
  • Lead counsel for midstream company regarding sale of jurisdictional pipeline before FERC
  • Lead counsel for midstream company regarding ethane pipeline project
  • Represented interstate natural gas pipeline in enforcement proceedings before FERC
  • Lead counsel for integrated oil and gas company with respect to FERC audit and investigation
  • Counsels corporate clients and underwriters regarding energy regulation

Education
AB, Harvard University - Radcliffe College, 1987

Areas of Practice

  • Energy
  • Energy and Environmental Litigation
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Energy Litigation
  • Energy M&A
  • Energy Regulation
  • Energy Sector Security Team
  • FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
  • National Security
  • Natural Gas
  • Oil & Gas Disputes
  • Oil, Gas and LNG
  • Pipeline
  • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
  • Renewable Energy and Clean Power

Professional Career



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