Gallagher & Kennedy public utility attorneys represent a number of for-profit and non-profit cooperative electric, gas, water and telecommunications utilities. Our attorneys appear before the Arizona Corporation Commission in rate, rule-making, acquisition, certification and other regulatory hearings as well as trial and appellate courts concerning those matters. In combination with other Gallagher & Kennedy practice groups, we also provide a broad range of services to utilities or to others in relation to utility matters including general litigation, arbitration, tax, environmental, transaction and corporate matters as well as legislative and local lobbying efforts.

Recent matters include:

• Several successful environmental siting matters involving both high-voltage transmission lines and power plants.
  
• The negotiation and execution of Arizona’s first wind purchase power agreement.
  
• A number of complex utility asset transfers and merger and acquisition cases.
  
• Regulatory approval of the restructuring of Arizona’s generation and transmission cooperative.
  
• Successful Superior Court and Court of Appeals challenges to various provisions of the State’s electric competition rules.