Lisa Cottle > Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP > San Francisco, United States > Lawyer Profile
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Lisa Cottle
Position
Lisa Cottle is a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm’s San Francisco office, and a member of the Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Team.
Lisa’s practice focuses on energy project development and regulatory matters in the electric power industry. She is recognized by Chambers USA, The Legal 500, Lawdragon, and Best Lawyers in America as a leading practitioner in these areas. Testimonials in these publications include: “She is incredibly responsive, a creative thinker, and very persistent in finding and developing the right answer;” and “She has a deep knowledge of how utilities approach negotiations and how to get power purchase agreements approved.”
Lisa has extensive experience with electricity generation, storage and transmission projects, including negotiating power purchase agreements (PPAs) and the full range of project contracts, obtaining key permits and regulatory approvals, and supporting project finance transactions. Her PPA experience includes energy sales and purchases, capacity and resource adequacy agreements, tolling agreements, and storage agreements. She has experience with a broad range of projects, including solar, battery energy storage, geothermal, wind, biomass, and natural gas. She handles wholesale and retail transactions for sellers and buyers.
Lisa also has extensive energy regulatory experience. She represents energy companies and project developers in regulatory proceedings before administrative agencies, particularly the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC). She represents developers of transmission projects in obtaining certificates of public convenience and necessity (CPCNs) and permits to construct (PTCs) from the CPUC and in compliance matters. She has obtained CEC certification for large thermal projects in California. Her permitting experience includes review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).
Education
J.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993
B.A., Colgate University, 1990, cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Energy > Renewable/alternative power
The energy, infrastructure and project finance team at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP continued its growth in 2022, with notable new hires including San Francisco’s expert for power purchase agreements Thomas W. Solomon, regulatory and transactional renewables partner Joseph Karp, real estate lawyers Lisa Cottle in San Francisco and Los Angeles based Christine A. Kolosov, all four joining from Winston & Strawn LLP in April 2022. The team is led jointly by Chicago’s Katherine M. Gillespie and Anthony L. Toranto in Del Mar, who each have extensive experience in the structuring, financing, acquisition, and disposal of renewables projects. The firm advises on projects including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, hydrogen and storage, and is particularly strong on tax equity financing, with Chicago tax partners Amit Kalra and Andrew Ratts both recommended here. With a particular focus on transactions, such as lending, leasing and tax credit, Chicago’s Katarzyna Levecke is also noted.
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Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Tax > International tax
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)