Energy and Utilities Law

Ice Miller’s Energy and Utilities Law practice provides full-service representation to a broad range of investor-owned and municipal utilities, as well as to “merchant” energy companies and infrastructure developers. Our practice includes representation of such entities before state and federal regulatory authorities such as the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. And, with the experience available through other areas of the firm, we are also able to assist these clients with related services, such as representation with respect to state and federal environmental matters; mergers and acquisitions; financings; land rights and real estate matters; commercial contracts; and legislative affairs.
Ice Miller’s Energy and Utilities lawyers have both legal and strategic business backgrounds, and they focus on providing their clients with both a legal and a strategic business view. Our lawyers possess many years of legal and utility executive experience, and continue to represent utilities and other energy companies in the following types of regulatory matters:

• Rate cases
• Rate adjustment or “tracker” cases
• Performance-based or incentive regulation
• Environmental compliance plan approval cases
• New generating facility approval cases
• Prudence cases
• Financing approval cases
• Utility mergers
• Acquisitions of utility assets
• Due diligence
• Energy efficiency cases
• “Smart grid” cases
• Innovative rate design offerings
• Accounting and depreciation cases
• Retail and wholesale energy supply agreements
• Regional transmission organization (RTO) matters
• Affiliate transactions
• Appeals from regulatory commission decisions
• Drafting / review of proposed legislation
• Regulatory strategy
• Regulatory affairs