Energy Regulatory Partner Damien Lyster Joins Kirkland
Kirkland & Ellis announced today that Damien Lyster has joined the Firm as a corporate partner in the Energy Regulatory Practice Group.
“Damien is an excellent lawyer and brings additional senior-level regulatory experience to Kirkland’s market-leading energy and infrastructure practice,” said Jon A. Ballis, Chairman of Kirkland’s Executive Committee. “We’re very excited to welcome him to the Firm.”
Mr. Lyster represents companies in the energy industry in transactional and regulatory matters. He has advised clients on transactional and state and federal regulatory issues related to investments in and the sale or acquisition of assets and entities in the natural gas, oil and conventional and renewable electric power industries. His transactions have involved the purchase and sale of commodities, such as hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable natural gas, and traditional natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons; power sales and marketing; the transportation and sequestration of carbon dioxide; the production, gathering, transportation, terminaling and storage of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons.
He also counsels pipeline and storage companies and shippers in negotiating commercial agreements and pursuing applicable authorizations from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Texas Railroad Commission, as well as midstream and exploration and production companies in drafting and negotiating gathering, processing and transportation agreements. In addition, he works on matters involving FERC-regulated wholesale power market participants in regulatory and compliance matters.
Mr. Lyster has been recognized by Chambers Global and Chambers USA, in Energy - Oil and Gas in the U.S. Regulatory and Litigation and “Up and Coming” sections. Legal 500 U.S. listed Mr. Lyster in Energy Regulation: Oil and Gas; and Energy Regulation: Electric Power.
He joins Kirkland from Vinson & Elkins, where he was previously a partner, and will work in Kirkland’s Houston office. He earned degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Virginia School of Law.
Kirkland’s Energy Regulatory Practice Group brings decades of collective experience to bear on new and emerging regulatory challenges involving renewables, electric transmission, oil and gas, LNG, distributed resources, energy storage, biofuels, nuclear, hydroelectric power and hydrogen. The practice advises clients on matters involving energy markets, federal and state energy regulatory agencies, legislation, laws, and policies. Kirkland’s energy regulatory clients include public and private companies, investment banks and private equity firms, infrastructure funds, hedge funds, project sponsors, developers and others involved in cutting-edge transactions, positioning the Firm at the forefront of trends throughout the energy industry.
