Ms Lauren Bachtel > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
200 PARK AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10166
NEW YORK
United States
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Ms Lauren Bachtel
Work Department
Renewable Energy and Clean Power, Environmental, Natural Resources, Air, Biomass, Hydro, Solar, Water, Wind, Climate Change, Endangered Species Act, Energy and Infrastructure, Energy M&A, Nuclear Energy, Private Equity, International Renewable Energy and Clean Power, Energy, Landfill Gas, Sustainability and Corporate Clean Power, Regulatory, Energy Litigation, Power and Utilities Capital Markets, Project Finance and Development, Mobile Source and Fuels Regulation
Position
Senior Attorney
Career
A former US Department of the Interior and American Wind Energy Association lawyer, Lauren draws on her diverse experience to navigate clients through complex permitting and compliance issues and litigation that arise under a host of federal environmental statutes and regulations. Lauren has extensive experience with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Mineral Leasing Act (MLA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA), Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA), Wilderness Act, and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. She has also assisted clients with navigating the evolving climate and environmental justice laws, policies and procedures.
She has represented individual clients and energy industry coalitions on various regulatory and administrative matters before the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the National Park Service (NPS), the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Lauren has deep experience drafting comments on administrative rulemakings, advising clients on policy and regulatory clarifications, negotiating proposed legislative bills, and with federal permitting and litigation.
Memberships
Admitted to the New York and Washington State Bars
Education
- JD, Pace University, magna cum laude, Editor-in-Chief, Pace Environmental Law Review, 2013
- BA, Smith College, 2009
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings