PRACTICE FOCUS
Energy and Telecommunications
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Landry practices with the firm’s Energy and Telecommunications
Practice Group from the Augusta, Maine office. He brings a broad background in
energy and utility law and corporate law to Preti Flaherty. Andrew previously
engaged in private practice in Bangor and prior to that served as General
Counsel to Bangor Hydro-Electric Company for many years.
Andrew has extensive experience representing utility clients on regulatory
issues before administrative and regulatory agencies, such as the Maine Public
Utilities Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). He has
also maintained a practice concentrated in corporate transactions, commercial
finance, securities law and mergers and acquisitions.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
While with Preti Flaherty, Andrew:
- Served as counsel to a Maine utility in connection with a $30 million line
of credit facility to finance a major infrastructure project.
While practicing with a Bangor firm, Andrew:
- Served as U.S. Counsel to a syndicate of international lenders in connection
with $115 million term loan to a leading regional aquaculture enterprise.
- Assisted the developers of a proposed liquefied natural gas receiving
terminal in Washington County, Maine in reorganizing the ownership structure for
the project.
- Served as lead counsel to a Maine bank in connection with the commercial
financing of the restart of a renewable energy generating facility.
- Served as lead counsel to a family owned restaurant and off track betting
licensee in connection with the sale of these businesses to a major national
gaming company for use as a casino site.
- Served as borrower’s counsel to a hotel developer in connection with the $10
million commercial financing of a downtown Portland hotel.
While practicing as General Counsel to Bangor Hydro, Andrew:
- Served as lead counsel to the company in dozens of Maine Public Utilities
Commission matters including proceedings relating to revenue requirements, rate
design, certificates of public convenience and necessity, merger approvals,
asset sale approvals, fuel cost adjustments, marketing programs, purchase power
contract restructurings, rulemakings and many other matters.
- Served as the company’s lead negotiator in Regional Transmission
Organization negotiations and as the company’s alternate representative the
NEPOOL Participants Committee.
- Served as counsel to the company in connection with SEC and NYSE compliance
matters, corporate governance matters, including Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and
numerous financing and transactional matters.
ADMISSIONS
- Maine; U.S. District Court, District of Maine
- Member, Penobscot County Bar Association (VP, 2005; President 2006)
- Member, Maine State Bar Association
Education
J.D., University of Maine, 1987
B.S., Syracuse University, 1983 (Cum Laude)
