Representative Experience
Represent large Midwestern utility holding company regarding legal, regulatory and political issues associated with August 14, 2003 eastern interconnection blackout

Counsel to Western electric utility regarding comprehensive audit on standards and codes of conduct initiated by FERC’s Office of Market Oversight and Investigations (“OMOI”)

Regulatory and corporate counsel to Midwestern utility regarding the sale of a corporate subsidiary transmission company to an independent buyer

Litigation counsel to Western utility in FERC proceeding regarding California electricity market “gaming”

Regulatory counsel to several utilities involved in regional transmission organization (“RTO”) and independent system operator development/ negotiations

Day-to-day FERC counsel to traditional utilities regarding Open Access Transmission Tariff administration, application and implementation, and RTO membership and participation

FERC and PUHCA regulatory counsel in connection with a $7.5 billion merger of an electric utility holding company and a domestic independent power producer/ gas marketer

Regulatory and transaction counsel to utilities and independent and affiliated power marketers and developers

Regulatory counsel in connection with the merger of a national energy marketer with a large, multinational, independent generation company

Regulatory counsel in connection with the merger of two independent generation companies

Regulatory and transactional counsel in connection with the corporate unbundling of an electric utility holding company’s fossil-fired generation assets and the creation of an unregulated, wholly-owned, generation-only subsidiary

Privatization counsel to utilities and power producers interested in purchasing and developing infrastructure assets on U.S. military bases

Represent traditional utilities and affiliate and independent power producers regarding regulatory issues associated with mergers and acquisitions and asset purchases under the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, and the Federal Power Act

Counsel to electric utilities regarding regulatory compliance best practices

Publications
Clifford S. Sikora, "Engineering Exotic Blends in Utility Mergers," Mergers & Acquisitions (Sept. 1997).

Donald F. Santa, Jr. & Clifford S. Sikora, "Open Access and Transition Costs: Will the Electric Industry Transition Track the Natural Gas Industry Restructuring?", 15 Energy L.J. No. 2, 273 (1994).

Donald F. Santa, Jr. & Clifford S. Sikora, "New Directions at FERC," in Reinventing Electric Utility Regulation 363 (Public Utility Reports Inc., 1995).

Clifford S. Sikora, "The Changing Electricity Supply Market: New Challenges, Opportunities for Hydro," Hydro-Review, Vol. XV, No. 1 (Feb. 1996).
Clifford S. Sikora, "FERC’s New Approach to Economic Analysis: Putting It In Perspective," Hydro-Review, Vol. XIV, No. 7 (Dec. 1995)