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Energy and Renewables

Overview

Anderson Kill has extensive experience obtaining promised insurance coverage for the Power-Generation, Petro-Chemical, Manufacturing, and related industries. Our attorneys have been pioneers in insurance recovery for complex technical losses – obtaining precedent-setting rulings on business interruption and property losses.  Our team has represented clients on matters involving disabled machinery, spills and contamination, and related liabilities. We offer practical client-first solutions to matters involving insurance coverage, counter-party risk, and financial litigation involving entities within the energy and renewables sector.

We work exclusively for policyholders, with no ties to insurance companies and no conflict of interest. Anderson Kill is the premier policyholder firm in North America; insurance companies and their counsel know who we are – and we know them.

Our attorneys travel across the country and around the world to handle all types of matters – working together while leveraging creativity with legal and business acumen to deliver cost-effective resolutions to clients’ problems.  Anderson Kill prides itself on attracting and retaining brilliant, personable, and well-rounded attorneys.  Intelligent attorneys with sharp skills, excellent client service, and a track record to prove it: that is the Anderson Kill Difference.

Insurance Recovery

Our team has assisted clients in recovering insurance proceeds through the litigation and arbitration of matters involving natural gas explosions, equipment breakdowns, spills, hurricanes, workplace accidents, mergers and acquisitions, and construction disputes.

Our Chambers-recognized, award-winning attorneys partner with our clients to develop and deploy a path to the outcome that best aligns with our clients’ financial and business objectives.

Whether assisting clients with directors and officers matters, reps and warranties, commercial general liability matters, or property losses involving the sophisticated measurement of business interruption losses – Anderson Kill attorneys focus on effective, client-first solutions in every engagement.

Counter-Party Risk Transfer

Our team evaluates, negotiates, drafts and enforces provisions designed to address and mitigate counter-party risk.  We guide businesses through analyses of indemnity provisions, insurance requirements, and all aspects that contribute to an evaluation of counter-party risk.

Financial Litigation & Complex Disputes

We have decades of experience advising clients in litigation involving complex financial instruments, investment vehicles, funding agreements, commercial contracts, and post-closing rights under M&A agreements. Our team also has extensive experience in complex financial disputes that arise in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings.  For more detail about the capabilities of our financial litigation and complex disputes team, click  .

Complex commercial litigation & Construction litigation

With decades of unparalleled experience, we are trusted advisors for clients navigating the complexities of commercial litigation. Our expertise spans sophisticated commercial and business disputes, including business torts, fraud, breach of contract, corporate and partnership conflicts, and debtor-creditor matters. In addition, we are experts in construction and contract disputes, representing a wide array of clients—owners, general contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, and materialmen—at every stage of business and construction matters. From resolving construction defect litigation and managing liens to negotiating contracts and handling transactional issues, our team delivers innovative solutions tailored to your unique challenges.

 

Experience

Our team has represented energy companies who have experienced breakdown, fatal workplace accidents, natural gas explosions, cyber incidents, and transaction-related disputes involving reps and warranties and directors and officers liability insurance policies.  We are able to simplify the complexities of property loss and sophisticated business interruption loss measurement involving start-ups and established enterprises, to maximize our clients’ recovery of the insurance coverage to which they are entitled.

Publications

SEC’s SolarWinds Litigation Expands Regulatory Cyberrisk Landscape

Risk Management Magazine / November 22, 2023

COVID-19: Insurance Coverage For The Energy And Manufacturing Industries

National Underwriter (NU) Perspective / March 12, 2020

City Enacts Green Zoning Provisions

Real Estate Weekly / May 10, 2012

5th Circuit Punts On Global Warming Case, Prolongs Legal Limbo

Environmental Protection / June 21, 2010

Green-Building And Renewable-Energy Insurance Claims: Where Are We Now?

Environmental Claims Journal / December 22, 2009

INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR POWER INTERRUPTION – IN THE NORTHEAST AND ELSEWHERE

Policyholder Advisor & Alert / September 1, 2003

People

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Samuel M. Braverman

Shareholder , New York, Newark

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Robert D. Chesler

Shareholder , Newark

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Marshall Gilinsky

Shareholder , Boston, New York

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Diana Shafter Gliedman

Shareholder , New York

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Pamela D. Hans

Office Managing Shareholder , Philadelphia

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Robert M. Horkovich

Firm Managing Shareholder , New York

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Jason Kosek

Shareholder , New York

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Keith A. Lazere

Shareholder , New York

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Ethan W. Middlebrooks

Shareholder , New York

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Maya Neski

Attorney , New York

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Jamie O’Neill

Attorney , New York

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William G. Passannante

Shareholder , New York

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Regan E. Samson

Attorney , New York

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Jeremy B. Shockett

Shareholder and General Counsel , New York

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Joshua A. Zelen

Attorney , New York

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Amy Zelen

Attorney , New York

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Key Contact(s)
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Pamela D. Hans
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Jason Kosek
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