Served as energy counsel and commodity swap counsel to the Southeast Energy Authority (SEA), an energy joint action agency based in Alabama, in a transaction that issued $675 million of tax-exempt bonds to purchase a 30-year supply of natural gas to be sold at a substantial discount to market prices to six project participants—Salt River Project (which will use the natural gas to generate electricity for retail customers in Phoenix, Arizona); the City of Tallahassee, Florida (which will use the natural gas to generate electricity for retail customers in the Tallahassee area); The Southeast Alabama Gas District; Huntsville Utilities of the City of Huntsville, Alabama; Decatur Utilities of the City of Decatur, Alabama; and the Municipal Energy Acquisition Corporate, a Tennessee joint action agency, for sale to the City of Lebanon, Tennessee. Salt River Project and the City of Tallahassee have the option to switch their purchases from natural gas to electricity at points in the future.
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