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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices

Baker Botts L.L.P.
700 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20001-5692
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Michael Yuffee

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+1 202 639 1132 michael.yuffee@bakerbotts.com View profile

Work Department

Global Projects / Energy Regulatory

Position

Partner

Section Chair – Energy Regulatory (Firmwide)

Career

A former attorney-advisor in FERC’s Office of Administrative Law Judges, Michael brings more than 25 years of experience in regulatory, enforcement defense, compliance, and transactional matters relating to the energy and commodities markets. Michael has extensive experience representing clients in energy and commodity-related regulatory proceedings and investigation matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). He regularly represents power producers, energy traders and marketers, commodities traders, financial institutions, wholesale power suppliers, and integrated energy companies with the development of regulatory compliance programs as well as represents clients in both public and non-public investigations and enforcement actions. He is likewise experienced in the regulatory facets of both the physical and financial wholesale power, natural gas, oil, and products markets, including the formation and redesign of wholesale energy markets, transmission and transportation access, capacity market development, interconnection issues, electric transmission, and natural gas pipeline line rate proceedings, and general administrative and civil litigation matters. Michael also advises clients in structured physical and financial energy transactions, project development transactions, and wholesale power and natural gas transactions.

Memberships

District of Columbia Bar

Energy Bar Association

Former Chairman, Electricity Regulation Committee of the Energy Bar Association

Education

J.D., Washington University School of Law 1994
Notes & Comments Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly

B.A., Political Science & History, Boston University 1991
cum laude

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Energy > Energy regulation: electric power

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Michael Yuffee – Baker Botts L.L.P.

Praised for its ‘outstanding legal advocacy‘, Baker Botts L.L.P. sports a multi-faceted practice capable of advising electric power clients on all aspects of regulatory issues and ensuing litigation. In addition to standalone regulatory work for a diverse client base that includes multi-state utilities as well as generation and transmission portfolio companies, the practice also provides regulatory support in the framework of transactions and financings. Washington DC’s Michael Yuffee counts enforcement defense, transactions and regulatory work among his areas of expertise and focuses on matters relating to the wholesale energy markets; he leads the practice jointly with Andrea Stover in Austin, whose work focuses on Texas and includes appearances before agencies such as ERCOT and the Public Utility Commission of Texas. Also in Washington DC, Jay Ryan and Emil Barth field diverse regulatory energy portfolios involving extensive FERC expertise.

United States > Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas

Baker Botts L.L.P.‘s broad energy practice includes representing clients in natural gas proceedings concerning the rates and terms of service for transportation and storage, advising on the permitting of regulated facilities, and negotiating a broad array of commercial agreements. The practice is headed jointly by Washington DC-based Michael Yuffee and Austin’s Andrea Stover; both routinely advise clients on enforcement and compliance matters before FERC and the CFTC. In Houston, Michelle Boudreaux has significant experience representing clients in contested proceedings regarding rates and terms of service, and obtaining regulatory approvals, while Jim Barkley is well-versed in advising on the regulation of common carrier, and utility oil and gas pipelines in Texas. In DC, Emil Barth supports a wide range of litigation and transactional matters, and Ryan Norfolk focuses his practice on work involving wholesale energy markets, including enforcement, compliance, and administrative litigation.

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