Dewey & LeBoeuf

Brett A. Snyder

Partner

Brett Snyder represents natural gas companies, liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies, public utilities, generators, and others in the natural gas and power industries before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, and Federal Communications Commission and in federal courts.

He advises clients with respect to new natural gas-pipeline and LNG-terminal projects under the Natural Gas Act, assisting clients through all stages of the certification proceedings before FERC. Recent natural gas projects include:

Southeast Supply Header, LLC, a natural gas pipeline and subsidiary of Spectra Energy that commenced service in September 2008;
Broadwater Energy LLC and Broadwater Pipeline LLC, an LNG terminal and associated natural gas pipeline, a joint venture between TransCanada and Shell;
Calypso U.S. Pipeline LLC, a subsidiary of SUEZ and a natural gas pipeline associated with an offshore LNG terminal project;
Ingleside Energy Center and San Patricio Pipeline, an LNG terminal and associated natural gas pipeline and subsidiaries of Occidental Petroleum Corporation; and
Cameron LNG, LLC/Sempra, an LNG-terminal and associated natural gas pipeline.

He has also advised natural gas pipelines, storage facilities and local distribution companies with respect to standards of conduct, capacity-release issues, regulatory audits, and FERC compliance generally. Mr. Snyder is a co-author and co-editor of The AGA FERC Manual: A Guide for Local Distribution Companies.

Mr. Snyder also represents electric utilities and power marketers before FERC. He has assisted electric utilities and power marketers with market-based rate applications and triennial reports, generation interconnection agreements, tariff amendments, merger applications, quarterly electric-transaction reporting and interlocking directorate issues. Mr. Snyder has represented clients in complex administrative litigation before FERC, including the California and Pacific Northwest refund proceedings surrounding the Western market disorders, as well as in appeals from agency decisions to the United States Courts of Appeals. Mr. Snyder also advises clients on project funding opportunities under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Department of Energy grant and loan guarantee programs.

Mr. Snyder also represents energy and other companies in FCC licensing matters relating to mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, and he has litigated pole-attachment disputes under the Pole Attachment Act.

Selected Activities

Member, Energy Bar Association
Member, Federal Communications Bar Association

Speeches & Programs

Lecturer, FCC Issues for Natural Gas and Electric Utilities, Washington, D.C. (November 2009).
Lecturer, Certificates Under the Natural Gas Act, Washington, D.C. (April 2009).

Publications

Co-author & co-editor, The AGA FERC Manual: A Guide for Local Distribution Companies (2010).
Co-author, "FERC's Focus on Demand Response," Fortnightly's Spark (Nov. 2009).
Co-author, "The Impact of House Climate Legislation on FERC," Law360 (July 2009).
Co-author, "Federal Energy Regulatory Commission," Association of Transportation Law Professionals, Association Highlights (March-April 2009).
Co-author, "U.S. Supreme Court Preserves Mobile-Sierra Doctrine and the Sanctity of Contracts," Association of Transportation Law Professionals, Association Highlights (Sept.-Oct. 2008).
Co-author, "Supreme Court to Review Finality of Contracts," Association of Transportation Law Professionals, Association Highlights (May-June 2008).
Co-author, "DOE Designates National-interest Transmission Corridors," Association of Transportation Law Professionals, Association Highlights (Nov.-Dec. 2007).
Co-author, "FERC Sets New Transparency Rules for Intrastate Natural Gas Pipelines," Association of Transportation Law Professionals, Association Highlights (July-Aug. 2007).
Co-author, "FCC Approvals for Utility Transactions Can Become Unexpected Pitfall," Natural Gas & Electricity Journal (June 2006).
Co-author, "The Customer Is Not Always Right: 8th Circuit Disregards Testimony of Consumers in Hospital Merger Case." Legal Times (August 16, 1999).
Note, "Apportionment of Innocent Spouse Relief." Tax Law (1997).

Education

Georgetown University Law Center, 1998, J.D., Notes & Comments Editor, The Tax Lawyer; John M. Olin Research Fellow in Law & Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992, B.S., University College London