Katie Leesman > Ballard Spahr LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Ballard Spahr LLP Offices
1909 K STREET, NW
12th FLOOR
WASHINGTON DC 20006-1157
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Katie Leesman
Work Department
Business and Transactions
Position
Associate
Career
Katie Leesman counsels clients on complex business transactions, with an emphasis on energy project finance, public-private partnership (P3) projects, project development and acquisition, related financings, and associated federal and state energy regulatory matters. Katie is experienced with numerous project technologies, including commercial, utility-scale, residential-scale photovoltaic systems, and community solar projects.
Before entering law school, Katie worked as a legal policy analyst for Dell Inc.’s government affairs group. She served internships with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Office of Administrative Litigation in the summers of 2009 and 2010. In spring 2010, she was a law clerk to the Office of Enforcement and Compliance, National Planning, Measures, and Analysis of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Admissions
District of Columbia
Memberships
Former President and Vice President, Women’s Energy Network
American Bar Association
Energy Bar Association
Women’s Energy Network, 2012-present
Education
American University, Washington College of Law (J.D. 2011, cum laude)
Member, American University International Law Review; Member, Moot Court Honor Society
Mary Washington College (B.A. 2004, cum laude)
Member, Pi Sigma Alpha; Member, Phi Alpha Theta
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Renewable/alternative power
Ballard Spahr LLP‘s PPP projects, energy and project financing practices collaborate on a range of matters in the renewable energy sector, acting for project developers and sponsors, investors, and lenders with interests in the space. Its advice on infrastructure and PPP projects is of particular note, and the team is represented across a number of the firm’s US offices. In Philadelphia, Patrick Gillard is a key figure with a strong utility finance practice and experience negotiating public and private debt financings. He is one of four co-heads of the practice, with Randall Towers and Steve Park alongside in Philadelphia, and John Smolen in Baltimore. Bruce Johnson in Las Vegas is a contact to note for real estate and commercial finance, while Minneapolis-based Raymond Faricy and Katie Leesman in Washington DC are further key figures in the firm’s renewable energy offering.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): municipal
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense