Gordon Polozola
USA Guide 2024
Band 2 : Energy & Natural Resources: Utilities
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Practice Areas
Gordon Polozola has over twenty-five years of expertise in electricity, natural gas pipelines and telecommunications, including tariffs and ratemaking, power & commodity sale/purchase agreements, EPC agreements, wholesale energy markets, NERC regulation and compliance audits, asset dispositions, O&M contract negotiations, ad valorem tax disputes and litigation, FERC wholesale transmission and interconnect agreements, and environmental regulations and compliance. He has proven skills in executing strategic business goals among diverse company business units through solutions-oriented approach, while mitigating legal and regulatory risks.
Gordon represents clients in the areas of electric power, energy, telecommunication, water and sewer, pipeline regulation, and trucking/transportation regulations. He represents local, regional, national and global utilities and utility consumers in contract negotiations and regulatory proceedings before the Louisiana Public Service Commission, Florida Public Service Commission, Tennessee Regulatory Authority, Mississippi Public Service Commission, Federal Communications Commission and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
Gordon has also represented local gas distribution companies, water and sewer companies and pipeline companies in rate application cases before the Louisiana Public Service Commission.
He has extensive knowledge of federal regulations and decisions relating to the development and operation of power projects and the obtaining of qualifying facility status and has earned the designation as a Certified Cogeneration Professional and Distributed Generation Certified Professional from the Association of Energy Engineers.
Gordon rejoined the firm in 2020 after serving for several years as vice president and regional general counsel for a major independent power producer in the Southeast, and as executive vice president and general counsel to a private equity infrastructure firm located in Houston, Texas.
Education
Louisiana State University Law Center
J.D.
1995
Louisiana State University
B.S.
1992
Chambers Review
USA
Gordon Polozola is recognized for his broad regulatory practice. He is especially adept at handling regulatory components of generation projects and transactions in the energy sector.
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"Gordon Polozola is always on point. He is very reliable and easy to work with."
"Gordon Polozola is always on point. He is very reliable and easy to work with."