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Anthony W. Buxton


Partner
Practice Focus: Energy Project Development, Complex Commercial Energy Transactions, Consumer Energy Representation
Office: Augusta, ME
Phone:207.623.5300
Fax:207.623.2914
Email:abuxton@preti.com
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Anthony W. Buxton serves as chair of the firm's Energy and Utilities Practice Group. Tony creates solutions to business energy problems, including the challenge of high-energy costs. Prior to joining Preti Flaherty, Tony served as a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army (Armor) and worked for future U.S. Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell. After law school, he co-founded the Energy Law Institute in Concord, New Hampshire, the nation's first renewable energy think tank. The Institute served the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Department of the Navy, the National Conference of State Legislatures and others in developing state and federal policies to encourage renewable energy.Tony then served as law clerk to the Honorable Hugh H. Bownes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston. Tony joined Preti Flaherty after completing his clerkship in 1980.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • Maine State Bar Association
  • American Bar Association

Professional Awards

  • Listed in Woodward/White's The Best Lawyers in America since 1988
  • Co-Author of Federal and State Legal and Institutional Obstacles to the Development of Small Scale Hydroelectric Projects. (US DOE)
  • Civic Involvement

  • Chair, Connect ME, a Maine gubernatorial task force to expand wireless and broadband services in Maine (2006)
  • Director, Democracy Maine
  • Vice-Chair of the Commission on Maine's Future, 1990.
  • Executive Committee, The Maine Legal Needs Study
  • Past Director, Pine Tree Legal Services, Inc.
  • Former Director, Portland Ballet
  • Former Director, Maine Bar Foundation
  • Finance Director, Kerry for President, 2004
  • High School Hockey Coach, 2003
  • Representative Matters

    Structures entities to finance, construct and/or operate energy projects, including hydroelectric, wind, biomass, and solid waste facilities from 400 kilowatts to 200 megawatts in size, as well as transmission, LNG and ethanol projects.
    Advises clients on tax, corporate and other legal implications of  energy project purchase, sale and development and conservation implementation.
    Serves as General Counsel to the Industrial Energy Consumer Group, representing the region's largest consumers of electricity, and the Cut the Cost Coalition, a recently created New England based electricity consumer group.

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    Tony Buxton is Chair of the firm's Energy and Utilities Practice Group.
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