Education
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Syracuse University College of Law, J.D., 2000
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University of South Florida, M.A., Economics, 1997
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Indiana University, B.A., B.G.S., Political Science, 1991
Bar Admissions
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Douglas Everette’s practice focuses primarily on representing traditional public utilities, energy marketers and generators on the energy regulatory aspects of transactions for the financing, development, acquisition and disposition of energy assets.
Mr. Everette is experienced in addressing issues relating to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) implementation of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 2005), competitive wholesale energy markets, public utility holding company and affiliate dealings, market and cost-based rate filings, market power issues and interconnection and wheeling matters. He also actively counsels clients on compliance with the reliability standards of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and on hydroelectric licensing and regulatory matters.
Mr. Everette also has extensive experience in federal and state telecommunications law and policy. He has counseled a diverse mix of telecommunications clients from Fortune 100 wireless carriers to small rural telephone and paging companies, cable television systems, broadband operators, Internet service providers and data calling centers.
Before joining Patton Boggs, Mr. Everette was an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of a major international law firm where he focused on telecommunications transactions and regulation and pole attachment litigation. Before that, he was an attorney in a Washington, DC boutique telecommunications law firm. Mr. Everette also served as a legal intern at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Representative Matters:
Energy
- Represents clients on the FERC regulatory aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring and financing of electric generation and transmission facilities.
- Represents clients on hydroelectric licensing, interconnection, and power sales contracts.
- Conducted due diligence for the acquisition of several hydroelectric generating facilities and subtransmission assets of an investor-owned electric company.
- Represented clients on compliance with reliability standards of the NERC, FERC Standards of Conduct and Code of Conduct for transmission providers.
- Assisted investor-owned utilities with preparation of Open Access Transmission Tariffs (OATT).
- Represented public utility clients on pole attachment disputes and litigation.
- Advised clients on “broadband over power line” (BPL ) systems and applications.
Telecommunications
- Represented a wireless client on transactional matters associated with the development of a national wireless broadband network.
- Represented clients on federal and state regulatory compliance, FCC licensing, and asset transfers for telephone companies, PCS licensees and private radio licensees.
- Represented clients on Junk Fax Act compliance.
- Advised clients on local competition, universal service, BRS/EBS license partitioning, paging, VoIP, Internet law, CALEA and cable programmatic and franchise agreements.
- Drafted interconnection agreements (CMRS and CLEC), Internet Acceptable Use agreements and Section 214 authorizations.
- Assisted microwave radio and PCS clients with FCC construction permits and licensing.
- Represented clients on tower licensing, leasing, citing and property issues, FAA approval and environmental impact assessment. Represented clients on cable/broadcast regulatory compliance including signal leakage, copyright, must-carry, retransmission consent and network duplication.
Antitrust
- Counsels clients on Hart-Scott-Rodino compliance matters.
- Represented clients on Sherman Act and related antitrust litigation matters.
Professional Affiliations:
Energy Bar Association
Federal Communications Bar Association
American Bar Association (Antitrust Law and Business Law Sections)
District of Columbia Bar Association (Computer and Telecommunications Law Section)
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