Arnie Podgorsky is a commercial, regulatory, and litigation attorney with some 30 years of experience.  Chambers USA-America's Leading Lawyers for Business, notes, "The 'absolutely wonderful' Arnold Podgorsky combines regulatory expertise with corporate/commercial experience and focus on the development of transmission projects.  'A great facilitator who can step into a meeting with 250 people and keep everyone on track.'"

His practice includes:

• representation of WSPP before the FERC and facilitation of membership discussion and determination of issues arising in the bilateral WSPP markets and under the WSPP Agreement, including interface between markets and reliability;
• development and operating agreements for generation and transmission facilities; financing agreements for equipment acquisition; advice and negotiation of FERC-jurisdictional agreements such as capacity exchange and interconnection agreements, representation in incentive transmission rate proceedings, and negotiation and documentation of power purchase agreements and enabling agreements;
• litigation before courts, bankruptcy courts, FERC, and arbitration panels of contract and other disputes, including a $160 million dispute arising out of the Western power crisis;
• markets compliance analysis and advice, including CFTC no-action letters and compliance under CEA and EPAct 2005;
• negotiation and documentation of regional joint operating agreements (PJM/MISO and PJM/MISO/TVA);
• advice regarding credit and collateral issues under the US Bankruptcy Code; and
• representation of Middle East-based manufacturing interests in the United States, including acquisition, due diligence, operations, and customer disputes.