McAfee & Taft provides comprehensive legal and business consulting services to the midstream energy and transportation industries.
Regulatory and Compliance
- Internal audits
- Compliance training, tracking, and management systems
- Environmental compliance and permitting
- Federal agency audits
- OSHA
- PHMSA
- Other Department of Transportation compliance, including driver qualification, hours of service, hazardous materials, and vehicle classification issues
- Physical and electronic security
- Risk assessment of liabilities and exposures
- SCADA control systems
Emergency Response
- On-site emergency response
- Media relations
- On-site agency inspections
- Response planning
Litigation
- Accidents and incidents
- Commercial litigation
- Defense of False Claims Act/qui tam lawsuits brought by “whistleblowers”
- Environmental
- Responses to agency Notices of Violations
- Responses to agency investigations
Business & Corporate
- Antitrust and trade regulation
- Business financing
- Business and transaction taxation
- Buy/sell facilities and pipelines, including pre-transaction due diligence, risk assessment and evaluation and preparation of contracts, and post-transaction implementation of contractual protections and best operating practices
- Corporate restructuring and workouts
- Creditors’ rights
- Supply, distribution and throughput contracts
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
- Real estate including condemnation proceedings and right-of-way issues
Records Retention
- Communications
- Compliance issues
- e-Discovery
- Policies and procedures
Workplace Issues
- Employee benefits, including health and welfare plans and retirement plans
- Employment law
- Executive and deferred compensation
- Labor issues, including collective bargaining and negotiations
- Union avoidance strategies