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Peter D. Mostow
Experience:
Peter Mostow is a partner in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where his practice focuses on energy, natural resource, and environmental law.
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He specializes in guiding private and public clients through the federal, state, and local siting and environmental permitting processes for wind, geothermal, solar, ocean, hydroelectric power plants, and biofuel facilities. Peter also has experience with permitting processes related to liquefied natural-gas (LNG) terminals, gas-fired power plants, underground natural-gas storage facilities, and gas pipelines.
In addition, Peter applies his knowledge of energy and infrastructure project development to assist clients with diligence, negotiations, and legal opinions on a variety of transactions including asset and membership interest acquisitions, venture and later-stage investments, project finance, and corporate finance. Prior to joining the firm, Peter was a partner at Stoel Rives, where he chaired the renewable energy practice. Following law school, in 1993-94, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Seattle, Washington. In addition to English, Peter is fluent in German.
EDUCATION:
- J.D., Yale Law School, 1993
Editor, Yale Law Journal; Managing Editor, Yale Journal on Regulation
- J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
Fulbright Scholar, 1989-90
- B.A., Reed College, 1987
Phi Beta Kappa
ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS:
- Vice Chair, American Bar Association Energy Facilities and Siting Committee (1995-present)
- Member, Governor's Carbon Allocation Task Force (Oregon, 1996)
- Member, Legacy Health Systems Institutional Review Board (1997-2004)
- Member, Oregon Genetic Privacy Advisory Committee (1994-97)
- Member, Oregon Health Decisions (1994-2004)
- Volunteer Attorney, Sponsors Organized to Assist Refugees
HONORS:
- Named in the 2007 edition of Best Lawyers in America
- Selected for "Top 40 under 40" award by the Portland Business Journal, 2003
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
- "Oregon and Ocean Renewable Energy," Oregon Insider, 2006
- "An Assessment of Wind Project Siting Regimes," Proceedings of the American Wind Association, June 2002
- Water Supply Easement Protection Workbook, Oregon Water Resources Congress, 1997
- "An Evaluation of State Energy Facility Siting Acts," 3 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Series, 1996
- "Senate Bill 674: Increasing the Flow Rate of Oregon's Water Rights Permitting Process," 32 Willamette Law Review 187, 1996
- "Reassessing the Scope of Federal Biotechnology Regulation," 10 Pace Environmental Law Review 227, 1993
SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS:
- "Regulation of Renewable Energy," LSI Electricity on Natural Gas Regulation Seminar, Washington, D.C., 2006
- "Permitting Ocean Energy Projects," Oregon Science and Technology Partnership, Newport, Oregon, 2006
- "Siting Wind Projects," National Conference of State Legislatures, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2004
ADMISSIONS:
- State Bar of California
- State Bar of Oregon
- State Bar of Washington
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