Greenberg Traurig Orange County Expands Its Office With The Addition
Of Prominent Energy And Project Finance Lawyer Charles E. Schwenck
COSTA MESA, CA -- January 3, 2006 -- Greenberg Traurig, LLP has announced
Charles E. Schwenck, an energy and infrastructure project development, construction
and finance attorney, has joined the firm as a Shareholder in its expanding
Orange County office. Mr. Schwenck is the 29th lawyer to join the Orange
County office of Greenberg Traurig, which opened less than 2 years ago.
He brings to the firm a noted background of over 30 years of experience,
predominantly in the engineering, construction, energy, and infrastructure
industries.
"I was attracted to Greenberg Traurig LLP because of the firm’s unique,
and cooperative culture, and because of the excellence of its attorneys,”
stated Mr. Schwenck. “I have been working with many of the firm’s fine energy
and infrastructure specialists in New York, Washington, D.C., and Texas,
as well as with the firm’s water experts in key markets such as California,
Arizona and Florida, for my water industry clients. I felt like a part of
the Greenberg team even before joining the firm," Schwenck continued.
Prior to joining Greenberg Traurig LLP, Mr. Schwenck was a partner in
the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer LLP, where he worked in the Corporate
and Finance Department. Mr. Schwenck devoted his practice there, and in
previous positions, primarily to the structuring, drafting, and negotiation
of arrangements for the development, construction, financing, fuel and feedstock
supply, product sales, ownership and operation of energy, infrastructure,
energy production facilities, product transportation systems, and other
commercial, industrial and public products, both domestically and internationally.
He has also represented developers of energy projects before federal and
state regulatory authorities and has been active in the representation of
major energy companies involved in mergers and acquisitions.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Schwenck served as Senior Vice President,
General Counsel, and a member of the Board of Directors of LG&E Power Systems.
He also served as General Counsel at Fluor Corporation and as Division Counsel
for one of the Bechtel Group's largest divisions.
Mr. Schwenck’s transactional work has taken him to more than thirty countries
on six continents, with the aggregated constructed value of the projects
for which he has been responsible exceeding $60 billion.
His regulatory and administrative representation in the independent power
and other energy areas has included representation before the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, the Rural Electrification Administration and regulatory
authorities of more than a dozen states.
“Mr. Schwenck is a very well known and respected energy and project finance
lawyer,” noted Gordon Schaller, Managing Shareholder of Greenberg Traurig LLP’s Orange County Office. “We are delighted he has joined our firm, and
we are certain his expertise will prove invaluable to our firm and our clients,”
Schaller continued.
Mr. Schwenck received his Undergraduate Degree at University of California,
Berkeley, as well as, receiving his Juris Doctor with honors from the University
of California, Berkeley’s, Boalt Hall School of Law. Upon graduating, he
went on to receive his admission to California and currently is a member
of the State Bar of California, American Bar Association (Sections on Business,
International, Public Utility Law and the Forum Committee on the Construction
Industry), and the Federal Energy Bar Association.
About Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is an international, full-service law firm with 1,500
attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The
firm is ranked seventh on The American Lawyer's Am Law 100 listing of the
largest law firms in the U.S., based on number of lawyers.
Greenberg Traurig serves clients from offices in: Albany, NY; Amsterdam, The
Netherlands; Atlanta, GA; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Denver,
CO; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Houston, TX; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL;
Morristown, NJ; New York, NY; Orange County, CA; Orlando, FL; Philadelphia, PA;
Phoenix, AZ; Sacramento, CA; Silicon Valley, CA; Tallahassee, FL; Tokyo, Japan;
Tysons Corner, VA; Washington, D.C.; West Palm Beach, FL; Wilmington, DE; and Zurich,
Switzerland. Additionally, the firm has strategic alliances with the following independent
law firms: Olswang, London and Brussels; Studio Santa Maria, Milan and Rome; and
Hayabusa Kokusai Law Offices in Tokyo.
For additional information, please visit the firm's Web site at
www.gtlaw.com.
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