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Total Credits: 5.75 Texas, 5.75 California, 5.75 Pennsylvania
Tags: Current CLE
This online conference, hosted by IEL’s Young Energy Professionals Committee, features sessions on the midstream sector of the industry. The conference is primarily designed for attorneys and professionals in their first ten years of practice but may also be of interest to individuals looking to learn more about the midstream sector.
| Accreditation Status: Approved |
Total Credits: 5.75 |
General Credits: 5.75 |
Ethics Credits: 0.0 |
| Accreditation Status: Participatory Credit |
Total Credits: 5.75 |
General Credits: 5.75 |
Legal Ethics Credits: 0.0 |
Elimination of Bias Credit: 0.0 |
Substance Abuse/Mental Illness Credit: 0.0 |
| Accreditation Status: Approved |
Total Credits: 5.75 |
General Credits: 6.0 |
Ethics Credits: 0.0 |
Ajey Chandra’s expertise combines over 35 years of experience in the
energy industry, including market analysis, project development, litigation
assistance, independent engineering review, strategic planning, mergers
and acquisitions, and operational improvements around the world.
Prior to joining Baker & O’Brien, Ajey held leadership positions in multiple
companies, and included roles in business development, gas and liquids
pipelines, midstream operations, and gas processing plants. Additionally,
Ajey has over 15 years of consulting experience covering a wide variety of
projects worldwide.
Emil Barth's law practice incorporates a broad range of regulatory, infrastructure development, litigation and transactional matters specific to the energy industry. The clients he represents include major electric, natural gas, oil, mining and renewable energy companies. Mr. Barth has represented clients in connection with energy and environmental matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps), U.S. Coast Guard (Coast Guard) and other federal and state regulatory agencies, as well as federal and state courts.
Prior to attending law school, Mr. Barth worked as an assistant in the White House Office of the Chief of Staff and as an associate at a public relations firm.
David Raphael is a partner in the environmental, land and natural resources practice of the firm's Harrisburg office. Prior to joining K&L Gates, David served as Chief Counsel of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) where he provided legal counsel to the Secretary and executive staff of the DEP. In this role, he oversaw a statewide team who represented the department on a variety of environmental compliance, litigation and transactional matters. His experience as an environmental practitioner – both in the public and private sectors – spans more than 25 years.
David represents clients in environmental litigation matters before the Environmental Hearing Board, various state and federal courts, and administrative boards. He also provides environmental counsel on complex transactions and a wide range of environmental compliance issues, including the implementation of environmental compliance and audit policies.
David was selected by Chambers USA (2017-2022) as one of Pennsylvania's leading environmental lawyers.
Sabina has over 15 years of experience in the federal and state regulation of natural gas and liquids pipelines. Sabina advises clients regarding regulatory issues and compliance with FERC regulations, including regulatory requirements for developing natural gas and liquids pipelines; negotiating service agreements on natural gas and liquids pipelines and other midstream facilities, such as gas gathering and processing facilities; obtaining authorizations for constructing new pipeline and storage facilities or abandoning existing facilities; rate regulation of natural gas pipelines and storage companies; tariff filings and general regulatory compliance; and creating regulatory compliance and internal audit programs for regulated pipelines. Sabina also provides advice to clients regarding pipelines subject to the jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Texas and intrastate natural gas pipelines offering Section 311 service. Sabina has represented clients in appellate matters before both the D.C. Circuit and the Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals and is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Suzanne counsels clients with respect to regulated and unregulated midstream assets. Specifically, Suzanne focuses on FERC regulatory requirements and compliance with FERC regulations, including creation of regulatory compliance and internal audit programs, rate regulation of natural gas pipelines and storage companies, and regulatory requirements at FERC for developing liquids and natural gas pipelines. Suzanne also works with clients on the negotiations of midstream agreements, including for service on interstate gas and liquids pipelines, gathering pipelines, processing facilities, storage terminal agreements, and agreements for the purchase and sale of commodities.
Chris is Co-Managing Partner of Quinn Emanuel’s Houston office. Chris is an experienced trial lawyer focused on the key disputes businesses face – from breach of contract and trade secret claims to business torts and antitrust disputes. A natural in the courtroom, Chris brings substantive jury-trial experience and commands the respect of judges and juries alike. His comfort level with going to trial is a formidable competitive advantage for his clients – both in and outside the courtroom.
Chris represents plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts throughout Texas and elsewhere. A key to his approach (and success) is developing a close working relationship with his clients and maintaining an open, ongoing dialogue that ensures the best strategic decisions at every stage of litigation. Whether his clients are looking to obtain a quick settlement, or to see their matter through trial, he is prepared every step of the way.
A distinctly business-oriented trial lawyer, Chris studied Business Administration with a concentration in Finance at The University of Texas at El Paso, where he was also a student government senator, captain of the football team, and a bowl game MVP. His demonstrated work ethic today comes in large part from his early drive to succeed. After working in the insurance industry for two years, Chris graduated with honors from the University of Michigan Law School. He then completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Philip R. Martinez in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas.
In 2022, Chris was ranked by Chambers USA in General Commercial Litigation and most recently has been named Litigator of the Week by The American Lawyer. He has also been repeatedly recognized as a “Texas Rising Star” by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers, and he has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list from 2020-2022. Chris has also been selected to the Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers guide from 2020-2022. Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Houston Parks Board.
David Ammons is a commercial trial lawyer with extensive experience handling high-stakes litigation in state, federal, and bankruptcy courts nationwide. Clients value David’s skill at efficiently and effectively resolving their litigation challenges in a manner that squares with their long-term strategic objectives. David has been recognized in the 2020 Legal 500 U.S. directory (Legalease) for his “responsiveness, client attention and practical application of knowledge.” He was also recognized in Texas Super Lawyers, 2020 and 2021 (Thomson Reuters).
Plaintiffs and defendants seek David’s representation in complex commercial litigation matters, including breach of contract disputes, business torts, fiduciary and financial litigation, and environmental and toxic tort litigation. David has particular experience representing companies, hedge funds, and court-appointed trustees in bankruptcy litigation matters.
Board certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, David represents onshore and offshore oil and gas producers, gas marketing companies, gas pipeline companies, and natural gas liquids processing companies. He has successfully defended major integrated oil and gas companies and large independents in multidistrict and class action cases with multimillions of dollars at stake. He also has handled complex disputes concerning joint operating agreements, purchase and sale agreements, operational issues, and title to oil and gas assets.
Clients appreciate that David’s early-career secondment to the commercial litigation group of a major integrated oil and gas company has made him a more effective advocate and provided him with unique insight into the operational and business concerns of his clients.
David is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Energy Law and Vice Chair of its Litigation and Dispute Practice Committee, among other positions.
Board certified in Oil,
Marcia Greenblatt is an attorney with extensive experience in handling a wide range of energy commodity trading transactions.
Marcia began her career in commodities at Louis Dreyfus Corporation in the mid-1990s. After leaving Louis Dreyfus, she worked for nearly 15 years at Sempra Energy Trading and its successors, where she was the primary attorney responsible for the daily energy commodity transactions, including physical purchases and sales and financial derivatives. In her role at Sempra, she both participated in the drafting of various industry initiatives, including participating on the drafting committees for the NAESB master agreements, and gained expertise on all industry standard master agreements. Since joining Phillips 66 in 2012, Marcia has, among other things, supported the company’s natural gas liquids and refined products trading desks. She also overhauled and drafted the Phillips 66 General Terms and Conditions used for trading of various commodities.
Marcia received her B.A. from Oberlin College and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where she was a member of the Fordham Law Review. Immediately after graduating from Fordham, she worked as an associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan in New York City. She is admitted in the State of New York.
Marcella is an environmental attorney specializing in crisis management, sustainability, and environmental law in the energy and infrastructure sectors. She counsels clients in carbon capture, energy technology, chemicals, conventional oil and gas, hydraulic fracturing, renewables, permitting, citizen suit defense, criminal environmental enforcement, and environmental investigations. She was Deputy General Counsel at the EPA, and Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Natural Resources at the Department of Interior, where she managed the litigation docket and regulatory portfolio of all energy and natural resource permitting and project development on federal lands, including for the federal oil and gas, renewables, and carbon capture programs. She was named by Women We Admire as The Top 50 Women Leaders of Houston 2022, the Petroleum Economist named her a global Top 100 Women of the Energy Transition 2021, she received the National Law Journal Energy/Environmental Law Trailblazer Award 2021, and ranked among the Legal 500 United States top environmental practices 2021. She is on the Executive Committee of the Environment & Natural Resources Division of the State Bar of Texas, the Institute for Energy Law Advisory Counsel, and is the Chair of the Environment & Natural Resources Program Committee of the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law. She graduated from Texas A&M University and the University of Houston Law Center.
Jennifer Sadenwater is Senior Managing Director of ESG Lynk. With nearly 20 years of professional experience, Jennifer has a simplified, yet detailed-oriented approach to sustainability strategy and ESG reporting. She serves clients in a variety of industries including asset management, midstream and upstream oil & gas, transportation & logistics, renewable energy, internet & media services, and electric utilities. Her prior experience with SEC financial reporting contributes to her approach of focusing on sustainability disclosure topics that are financially material and relevant to stakeholders. Jennifer also has extensive experience in developing and conducting training courses and is a subject matter expert contributor for the Fundamentals of Sustainability Accounting (FSA) Exam issued by the IFRS Foundation.
Ben Rajabi counsels a broad array of energy clients in transactional matters
with a particular focus on the midstream sector, including:
● Acquisitions and divestitures of pipelines, gathering systems, storage facilities and related midstream infrastructure facilities for crude oil, natural gas, produced water, and constituent products
● Joint ventures for midstream and downstream energy projects
● Natural gas purchase, sales and marketing agreements and NAESB agreements
● Gathering, processing, treating, supply, storage, and related midstream operational agreements for crude oil, natural gas, and produced water
● Engineering, procurement and construction agreements for midstream and downstream infrastructure projects, including pipelines, gathering systems, LNG, and CNG terminals
● Operation and maintenance agreements for midstream and downstream infrastructure projects
● Acquisitions, divestitures, construction, installation, and operations agreements for renewable energy projects
● Acquisitions and divestitures of portfolios of oil and natural gas purchase, sales and hedging agreements
● Power purchase agreements
● Hedging agreements
David Updegrove serves as Deputy General Counsel of Salt Creek Midstream and has been with Salt Creek Midstream for 18 months. David has over 8 years of legal experience including 6 years in private practice at the law firms of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Baker Botts LLP, where he served as a corporate and financial services associate. His practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions and he represented a variety of industrial, manufacturing, transportation and energy companies. David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business-Economics and History from University of California – Los Angeles and a Juris Doctorate from University of California – Berkeley School of Law.
Jennifer Johnson serves as General Counsel of Salt Creek Midstream. She has over 10 years of legal experience in law firm and in-house settings.
Prior to joining Salt Creek, Ms. Johnson served as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Rosehill Resources, Inc., a publicly traded upstream company with assets in the Permian Basin. She also worked at Noble Energy Inc., where she served as Corporate Finance Counsel for both the upstream and midstream businesses. In addition, Ms. Johnson worked as a corporate and financial services attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and began her private practice career as a corporate associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Immediately after law school, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge David McKeague of the Unites States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Johnson holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from UT Health Science Center – Houston and worked as a Registered Nurse at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center prior to going to law school. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law.
Harry Beaudry joined EPIC Midstream in August 2019 as General Counsel and Secretary and was appointed to the EPIC’s Board of Directors in November 2020. As General Counsel, Mr. Beaudry is responsible for all legal functions of the company, including corporate governance, securities and finance, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, litigation and labor and employment matters.
Mr. Beaudry has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Before joining EPIC, Mr. Beaudry served as General Counsel and Secretary of Noble Midstream Partners LP, a publicly traded master limited partnership providing crude oil, natural gas, and water-related midstream services in Texas and Colorado. He joined Noble Energy in March 2017 as Associate General Counsel and managed legal support and oversight of various functions, including mergers & acquisitions, securities, finance, governance, litigation, regulatory and human resources. Mr. Beaudry began his legal career in October 2000 with Thompson & Knight LLP, advising energy clients in mergers and acquisitions and corporate and securities matters. He then joined the international law firm of Mayer Brown LLP in January 2013 as a partner in the firm’s corporate and securities practice group before joining Noble in 2017.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University and a law degree from the University of Texas.
Shannon has extensive experience counseling natural gas and liquid pipelines on regulatory compliance issues in connection with growth initiatives and day to day operations, with a focus on drafting commercial energy contracts and managing regulatory compliance and regulatory proceedings. Additionally, she has significant utility acquisition experience both in obtaining regulatory approval as well as closing and transition related matters. Recently, she has worked on decarbonization efforts around carbon sequestration, hydrogen and ammonia.
Shannon is an Associate General Counsel and Chief FERC Compliance Officer for Tallgrass. Previously, she worked at Colonial Pipeline Company, an oil products pipeline company, and Liberty Utilities, a Canadian based utility holding company that owns natural gas, electric, water, and wastewater utilities throughout the United States. Shannon began her career in Washington D.C. working briefly at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and then as an associate at Husch Blackwell, LLP.
Nadine is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Third Coast. She joined Third Coast in 2016 after more than five years in house with another company. Nadine has more than 20 years of experience as an energy industry lawyer, starting her career in private practice with firms in New York and Washington, DC. Nadine has a B.A. from New York University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School.
Matthew focuses his practice on cyber security and data privacy for a broad range of industries, with an emphasis on the energy, chemical, and manufacturing sectors. He is well-versed in complex electronic discovery and information governance issues, as well as domestic and international data privacy and information security practices. His diverse experience at the intersection of litigation, technology, and data management enable him to provide clients with comprehensive counsel proactively and in real time. Matthew is certified as an Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM) and a Fellow in Privacy by the International Association of Privacy Professionals.
Christopher Morrow is a Senior Attorney at The Williams Companies, Inc., a United States-based energy company focused on natural gas processing and transportation. In his position at Williams, Christopher provides counsel on cybersecurity- and privacy-related legal and regulatory obligations, leads Williams’ cybersecurity program formalization initiatives, and serves as counsel for Williams’ cybersecurity incident response team. Chris received his J.D. from Oklahoma City University School of Law.
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The Midstream Industry: Looking forward into 2023 (Non-CLE)
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Ajey Chandra
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Navigating Midstream Regulation at the Federal and State Level
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Emil Barth
David Raphael
Sabina Walia
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Total Credits: 1.0 Pennsylvania | On Demand | 60 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Controversies Surrounding Energy Related Infrastructure
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Suzanne Clevenger
Christopher Porter
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Total Credits: 0.75 Pennsylvania | On Demand | 45 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Developments in Key Clauses in Midstream Commodity Contracts
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David Ammons
Marcia Greenblatt
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Total Credits: 0.75 Pennsylvania | On Demand | 45 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ESG for Midstream: Balancing the Risk & Reward
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Marcella Burke
Jennifer Sadenwater
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Total Credits: 0.75 Pennsylvania | On Demand | 45 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Midstream Contracts: Selected Negotiation Issues
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Benjamin Rajabi
David Updegrove
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Total Credits: 0.75 Pennsylvania | On Demand | 45 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In-House Counsel Huddle
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Total Credits: 1.0 Pennsylvania | On Demand | 60 Minutes | More info » | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pipeline Cybersecurity: The Developing Regulatory Landscape
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Matthew Baker
Christopher Morrow
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Total Credits: 0.75 Pennsylvania | On Demand | 45 Minutes | More info » | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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