Porter Wiseman
Counsel Global Regulatory
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
Porter has nearly two decades of experience representing independent power providers, electric utilities, and other energy and utility clients in proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state public utility commissions (PUC), including complaint, merger, rulemaking, and ratemaking proceedings. She has a deep and nuanced understanding of utility regulation issues, particularly those arising under the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 (PUHCA), and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).
Porter has extensive experience with competition issues in the power sector, including the development and operation of the organized electricity markets. Her work includes regulatory support and due diligence for all types of transactions in the energy space, such as the sale of generation facilities—including nuclear and hydropower stations—and the development of merchant transmission. Porter has advised clients in dozens of matters relating to renewables and distributed generation, including onsite generation for industrial and data applications. In addition, Porter has provided regulatory and industry-knowledge support for multiple utility financial restructurings and represented a major oil company in securities class action litigation.
In addition to her work in the energy space, her work on behalf of clients has also included antitrust and telecommunications matters before the courts and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including a major international telecommunications litigation involving allegations of anticompetitive behavior and litigation before the FCC regarding telecommunications mergers.
In addition, Porter has represented clients, pro bono, in the fields of voting rights, immigration, tenants’ rights, international human rights, forced marriage, and lead contamination.
Representative experience
Regularly analyzes novel challenges arising from the confluence of Federal and state regulation with the rapid evolution of energy technology.*
Advises clients regarding competition and energy market structures both inside and outside of the organized electricity markets. *
Provides regulatory and industry expertise relating the utility and energy space in antitrust, litigation, financial restructuring and other legal matters.*
Develops and executes regulatory strategy and engagement in utility bankruptcies and litigation*
Identifies and devises solutions to energy regulatory noncompliance issues*
Routinely advises on complex issues arising under the Federal Power Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005, the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978. *
Provides legal guidance and advice relating to complex issues arising under various state utility and clean energy statutes.*
*Matter handled prior to joining Hogan Lovells.
Credentials
- Juris Doctor, University of Virginia, 2007
- B.A. (with honors), Art Institute of Phoenix, 2002
- B.A. (with honors), University of Virginia, 1998
- Maryland
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Court of Appeals