Adam Margolin

Energy Counsel

• Representing energy companies in transactional, litigation, regulatory and legislative matters. Clients include investor-owned public utilities, renewables developers, transmission companies, municipal utilities, retail electric and gas suppliers, generation companies, and electric and gas cooperatives.
• Representing energy companies before state public utility commissions in rate cases, merger cases, special investigations, enforcement proceedings, tariff approvals and reconciliations, complaint cases, transmission line siting cases, rulemakings, and license and certificate requests.
• Representing renewables owners and developers in the acquisition and disposition of wind and solar projects.
• Working with public utilities and retail electric and gas suppliers on formal and informal inquiries from regulators, compliance matters and reporting obligations.
• Defending retail electric and gas suppliers in enforcement cases before state public utility commissions in connection with alleged violations of legal and regulatory standards and requirements.

Infrastructure Counsel

• Representing clients in the development, financing, construction, ownership, operation and maintenance of infrastructure projects, including with negotiating various project agreements and securing federal, state and local approvals and permits.
• Drafting and negotiating initial and definitive project agreements for infrastructure and P3 transactions, including memoranda of understanding; revenue sharing arrangements; engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts; design-build contracts; operation and maintenance agreements; ground leases; easements; and tolling agreements.
• Obtaining the necessary federal, state and local approvals and permits for infrastructure projects, including permits from the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, overpass authorizations from the Illinois Commerce Commission, property tax exemption certificates from the Illinois Department of Revenue and county boards of review, roadway jurisdictional transfers from state and local transportation agencies, and county-level tolling permissions.
• Advising clients on federal and state laws that impact infrastructure and P3 deals, including the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Illinois Public-Private Partnerships for Transportation Act, the Illinois Toll Bridge Act and the Illinois Procurement Code.

• Led a multidisciplinary team of Quarles lawyers representing a publicly traded infrastructure company in its acquisition of a district cooling system that serves downtown Chicago.
• Served as lead counsel to a real estate investment trust (REIT) in a public-private partnership (P3) for a transportation-related project in suburban Chicago.