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Robert Alessi
Work Department
Projects, Energy and Infrastructure; Environment, Health and Safety; Litigation, Arbitration and Investigations; Finance; Real Estate Development and Planning; Real Estate Litigation; Oil and Gas; Commercial Contracts Disputes; Investigations; Corporate; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Appellate Advocacy; Public and Administrative Law; Product Liability, Mass Torts and Product Stewardship; Cross-Border Litigation; Asset Based Lending; Energy and Natural Resources; Financial Services; Media, Sport and Entertainment; Industrials
Position
Partner; Global Vice Chair, Energy Sector
Career
Bob Alessi serves as the Global Vice Chair of DLA Piper’s Energy Sector. He is regularly called upon by domestic and international clients to handle their most significant environmental and energy matters, be they project development, regulatory, major transactions, compliance, defense of government enforcement actions or judicial and administrative trials and appellate litigation.
Drawing on his scientific background, he has been the lead counsel on several matters of national and international significance.
He has led project development, regulatory, transactional and compliance matters for electric generation, transmission and distribution providers, liquefied natural gas facility developers, oil and gas companies (upstream, midstream, and downstream), renewable energy companies, water utilities, pipeline entities, industrial manufacturers, financial institutions, railroads, private equity firms, automobile manufacturers, state and local governmental authorities, mining operators, sports organizations, telecommunication providers, and solid and hazardous waste disposal facilities and transporters. These matters concerned and included the Natural Gas Act, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Superfund, Coastal Zone Management Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, Oil Pollution Act, Endangered Species Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, state and international oil, minerals and gas acts, climate change, natural resource damages, hydraulic fracturing, electromagnetic fields, European Union environmental and energy laws and the attendant land use and public policy components.
Bob represents Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, governmental entities and cultural institutions and often appears on behalf of clients in federal and state trial and appellate courts and in administrative tribunals where he has successfully tried and argued numerous matters. He recently secured victories for major energy companies in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the District of Columbia which were profiled in the American Lawyer Litigation Daily, New York Law Journal and Law 360 and reported in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
His general civil litigation practice encompasses a wide variety of commercial matters in state and federal trial and appellate courts.
Memberships
Board of Directors, The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
Education
J.D., Albany Law School; B.S., Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Tax > International tax
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Government > State attorneys general
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: transactional and regulatory
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Tax > Financial products
- Finance > Fintech
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense