Midstream and Transportation

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

• Business immigration and I-9 compliance
• 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
• Workplace safety