Variant Partners

Practice Leader - Energy Practice

(734) 926-2189

lynda.cooney@vpartners.com

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Effective January of 2018, Lynda has taken over the leadership of the Energy Legal search team. The practice is niched to in-house legal roles with a national scope across seven energy industry sectors. Lynda is personally responsible for all client interface as well as the day to day activity management of the team. She has earned this role by her outstanding performance for the past several years in every progressive position leading to this one. Her MA in History is from Eastern Michigan University. In her spare time she enjoys travelling, cooking, and performing arts, specifically nationally competitive dance instruction for children.

SPECIALTY:

ENERGY

PRACTICE AREA:

In House Legal Search

NATIONAL CLIENT SECTORS

Electric vertical: power generation through high voltage transmission to the distribution utilities. Whether the generation is conventional fossil fuel, nuclear, wind, or solar, lawyers are involved at every step.

Natural Gas vertical: upstream production, gathering and processing , interstate pipelines, and the distribution utility.

• Upstream Exploration & Production
• Oil & Gas Pipelines
• Midstream
• Investor owned utilities
• Transmission Owners
• RTO/ ISO
• Merchant Generators
• Energy Trading and Marketing
• Infrastructure Developers
• Renewable Energy

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Regulatory/Compliance
• FERC / NERC
• State Regulatory
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission
• SEC
• Transactional
• Oil & Gas
• Energy Commodity (wholesale and retail)
• Commercial
• Project Development /Project Finance
• EPC
• Real Estate

Team:

Stephanie Krupp, Senior Strategy Director, Energy Practice LinkedIn

Alicia Coles, Administrative Assistant LinkedIn