Andrew Spielman

Practice Details

• Languages
  Spanish
  Conversational
  English
  Native
• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Representative Matters: Represented an international IPP in Arizona, California, Colorado
  Washington, DC with successful permitting of more than three gigawatts of wind
  solar generation projects.
  Represented North America's largest IPP in the successful permitting of five BESS facilities with storage capacity of nearly a gigawatt.
  Represented both investor-owned utilities
  merchant transmission developers with federal agency permitting of transmission lines in 12 states, all supporting clean energy generation. These projects included interstate, international
  undersea lines. The federal agencies involved include the Bureau of L
  Management, the U.S. Fish
  Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Department of State
  the National Oceanographic
  Atmospheric Administration.
  Represented a publicly traded IPP in successful l
  owner negotiations with CRITFC during development of a utility-scale solar project in the Southwestern United States.
  Represented a European wind developer with permitting issues involving endangered species compliance.
  Represented an international IPP on federal permitting involving the U.S. Department of the Interior
  Represented a Utah-based IPP in federal public l
  s permitting of pumped-hydro generation.
  Represented a BlackRock Capital portfolio-company on both wind permitting
  related transmission infrastructure along federal right-of-way.
  Represented the interstate TransWest Express wind transmission projecgt with permitting before the U.S. Department of the Interior.
  Successfully obtained, defended a challenge to, federal permitting of renewable energy infrastructure in California before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
  Secured federal, state,
  county l
  use approvals for more than 4 gigawatts of wind
  solar energy,
  battery storage, including defending permit challenges in federal court.
  Counseled public
  private transmission developers in permitting new facilities in 12 states, including offshore
  international transborder projects.
  Represented 35 ski areas nationwide as public l
  s, NEPA, forest service
  l
  use counsel, securing approvals for the nation's newest public ski area
  year-round facilities expansions at resorts nationwide.
  Acted as counsel to an international gold mining company in a history 1.5 million-acre voluntary, l
  scape level conservation agreement with the Department of the Interior, among other stakeholders, to promote the conservation of the sagebrush habitat
  species in exchange for the potential to earn credits to offset the impact of future mining operations in the state of Nevada.
  The above representations were h
  led by Mr. Spielman prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
  Government Experience: Chair, Colorado Energy
  Carbon Management Commission (formally the Colorado Oil
  Gas Conservation Commission), 2011-2017
  Chair, Colorado's Regional Air Quality Commission, 2007-2018
  Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1991-1998
  Presidential Management Fellow, The White House, Office of Management
  Budget, 1990-1991
  In-House Experience: Chief Operating Officer
  General Counsel, Silverton Mountain, Aspen Heli Skiing & Silverton Mountain Guides Alaska, 2019-2020
  Teaching Experience: Industry trainer on 'Emerging Issues in Solar Development'
  'Multi-jurisdictional Permitting of Transmission Projects'
  Director
  Lecturer, The Future of Oil & Gas Initiative, Colorado School of Mines' Payne Institute of Public Policy
  Adjunct Professor of L
  Use in the Outdoor Recreation Industry, University of Denver
  Guest Lecturer on Public L
  s Law, The University of Denver Law School
  Guest Lecturer on National Resource Law, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
  International Trainer, Environmental Risk
  Decision-making, Czech Republic
  Ukraine
  
• Additional Links
  https://www.gtlaw.com/en/professionals/s/spielman-andrew