Energy and Real Estate Law and AI-Driven Data Centers: Navigating Legal and Regulatory Challenges

Ms. Osmond concentrates her practice in the areas of joint venture and real estate investment, leasing, real estate financing, acquisitions and dispositions, corporate real estate services, the real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions, development and general real estate.

Mr. Fleischman represents clients before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies on matters pertaining to artificial intelligence, national security, space, health, and financial services. For over a decade, policymakers, companies, boards, and investors have relied on him to advance policy prerogatives and ensure government support for critical infrastructure technology. Earlier in his career, Mr. Fleischman was the Deputy Director of Government Affairs for one of the leading advocacy organizations in Washington. In this capacity, he worked to secure over $30 billion in Congressional funding for defense, security assistance, and technologies programs, and he drafted and advanced complex artificial intelligence legislation. Mr. Fleischman also successfully advocated for the establishment at the National Security Council of an international Strategic High-Level Dialogue on Technology, which includes working groups on artificial intelligence, trusted technology ecosystems, health, and climate change. Relatedly, he has worked with the Executive Branch and foreign governments to develop programs furthering regulatory cohesion of rules, standards, and export controls for artificial intelligence.

Mr. da Silva Ashley is a trusted advisor to international and domestic financial institutions, project sponsors and developers, investment funds and multinational corporations, advising on sophisticated and market-leading complex cross-border and domestic project finance and corporate lending transactions throughout North America and Latin America. He has extensive experience in the renewable energy, infrastructure, hospitality and industrial sectors, guiding clients through the financing of utility-scale wind and solar projects, distributed solar generation, conventional power plants, carbon capture and sequestration facilities, midstream assets, onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration and production, chemical plants, and resorts and hotels across the Americas.

Ms. Chambers focuses her practice on energy regulation and project finance. She has 30 years of experience on matters before the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) and has advised on wholesale electric energy markets, natural gas pipelines, and electric. She has represented utilities in restructuring of electricity markets and advised transmission owners regarding all aspects of electric rates and tariffs and assisted renewable generators in matters regarding interconnection with RTO and ISOs in all regions of the country. Ms. Chambers has obtained market-based rate authorization for generation owners and advised renewable generation owners on qualifying facility status and exempt wholesale generation requirements regarding PUHCA. She also has extensive experience counseling clients regarding compliance with FERC compliance and enforcement matters.