Practice Expertise

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Corporate

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Energy
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Colleges and Universities
  • Energy M&A
  • Energy M&A
  • Energy Regulation
  • FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Power and Energy Capital Markets
  • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
  • Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure
  • Sustainability and Corporate Clean Power
  • View More

Profile

Bud’s practice focuses on both regulated and non-regulated entities in the global power markets. Bud represents universities, energy companies and investment banks in public and private capital markets transactions, which involve both taxable and tax-exempt securities. He also provides advisory services to corporate and higher education entities.

Bar Admissions

    Education
    JD, Yale Law School, 1978

    BA, University of Oklahoma, 1975

    Areas of Practice

    • Capital Markets and Securities
    • Corporate
    • Energy
    • Energy and Infrastructure
    • Colleges and Universities
    • Energy M&A
    • Energy M&A
    • Energy Regulation
    • FERC, NERC and State Energy Regulation
    • Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Power and Energy Capital Markets
    • Power and Utilities Capital Markets
    • Regulated Markets and Energy Infrastructure
    • Sustainability and Corporate Clean Power

    Professional Career

    Significant Accomplishments
    • Represented corporate clients in the acquisition and divestiture of energy companies, and energy assets in the US and the UK.
    • Worked with power companies located in the UK and Australia in US capital markets transactions.
    • Represented underwriters and financial advisers in the recapitalization of US utility companies subject to reorganization pursuant to state restructuring legislation.
    • Experienced in structured financings and synthetic leases involving power production facilities and other assets used by power producers.


    Professional Associations
    • Chairman, Infrastructure Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, American Bar Association

    Professional Activities and Experience
    • Ranked in Chambers USA as Leading Individual, Energy: Electricity (Finance), Band 1, 2007-2017
    • Ranked in Chambers Global: USA, Energy: Electricity (Finance), Band 1, 2015


    Articles

    • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
    • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, ABA Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law
    • Report of the Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions Committee, Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Law, ABA
    • The Evolving Public Interest – Recent Decisions in Utility Merger Proceedings, Infrastructure
    • Recent Developments in Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries, Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law, ABA
    • Financing the Future: Three Innovative Approaches to Infrastructure Finance, Infrastructure
    • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, ABA Section of Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Law
    • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
    • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
    • Recent Developments in Public Utility, Communications and Transportation Industries, Section of Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Law, ABA
    • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA
    • Finance, Mergers, and Acquisitions, in Recent Developments in Infrastructure and Regulated Industries, ABA

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