Robert Alessi

Career

Robert Alessi serves as the Global Vice Chair of DLA Piper's Energy Sector. Drawing on his scientific background, he is regularly called upon by Fortune 100 domestic and international clients to handle their most significant energy, environmental and financial services matters — be they project development, regulatory, major transactions, compliance, defense of government criminal and enforcement actions, or judicial and administrative trials and appellate litigation. He also represented the governmental entity charged with planning the rebuilding and revitalization of the World Trade Center and Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11, having been selected to do so as a result of a national competition.

Robert has successfully appeared on behalf of clients before the United States Supreme Court, the New York State Court of Appeals, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for the District of Columbia. Various of these matters were profiled in the American Lawyer Litigation Daily, National Law Journal, New York Law Journal and Law 360 and reported in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.