Amy Koch Joins SAI Global’s Ethics and Legal Content Advisors
Plainsboro, NJ, May 23, 2007 – SAI Global, a leading provider of enterprise-wide compliance and ethics solutions for global companies, today announced that Amy Koch, Chair of the Energy and Natural Resources practice group at Patton Boggs LLP, has joined SAI Global's Ethics and Legal Content Advisors.
In this capacity, Ms. Koch is working with SAI Global to develop the latest courses on Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) standards of conduct. Other advisors in the group of Ethics and Legal Content Advisors include prominent lawyers, ethicists, and industry experts in the fields of business ethics and corporate compliance.
"We are pleased to welcome Amy Koch to our advisory board," said Tom Parry, President of the Americas Compliance Division of SAI Global. "With Amy‘s extensive experience in this area of law, we feel that our FERC courses for electric transmission providers and for natural gas transportation providers will offer valuable guidance to companies in addressing their legal and regulatory responsibilities."
Ms. Koch has advised clients on the effect of Federal and State energy regulation on utility industry transactions, on the development, management and operation of utility assets, and on electricity restructuring matters for nearly 25 years. Since joining Patton Boggs LLP in September 2003, she has advised foreign and domestic investors and lenders on Federal and State energy regulatory and transactional matters involving the successful acquisition, debt restructuring and financing of electric generating assets collectively approaching $6 billion in value. This work has involved the development of ownership structures that allow for the trading of equity interests in electric generating facilities without the prior approval of FERC, preparation of the FERC and State public utility commission applications necessary to close merger and acquisition transactions, and post-closing FERC compliance matters.
As part of her practice, Ms. Koch also represents public utilities on FERC and RTO/ISO compliance matters, on the development of transmission and interconnection facilities, on the negotiation of wholesale and retail power agreements, and on electricity restructuring market design issues. Ms. Koch has also advised foreign governments and foreign electric utilities on privatization and restructuring options for generating plants and on electricity restructuring issues, including the creation of legally enforceable market rules, and the design of electricity regulatory regimes.
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