Lawyers / Professionals

Ms. Webb's practice focuses on the representation of public companies in connection with public and private securities offerings, bank financing and lending activities, corporate governance, Sarbanes-Oxley and other securities regulations. Her responsibilities have included advising public companies on their compliance with federal securities laws, including Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank legislation and related regulations, communicating with and advising senior executives and directors, drafting public disclosure documents, and drafting and negotiating public offering documents.

She has concentrated on the representation of energy holding companies, as well as electric utilities and natural gas companies, and has a deep understanding of utility operations and financing needs and opportunities in the energy industry. From 2005 through 2010, she primarily served as counsel for an investor-owned energy holding company with operations in Texas and New Mexico, and its various operating subsidiaries. In that role, Ms. Webb represented the holding company and operating subsidiaries in a variety of public and private capital markets offerings, financings of bank credit facilities and loan agreements, and merger and acquisition activities. She has also represented various companies in their consideration of opportunities for federal loan guarantees for renewable energy projects.

Ms. Webb also focuses on all corporate governance matters and 1934 Act periodic reporting issues (with a particular interest in climate change disclosure and energy-related accounting issues), Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and national listing exchange compliance. From 1998-2004, she served as designated underwriters' counsel for one of the nation's largest producers and transporters of energy headquartered in Virginia, as well as a large energy-based holding company headquartered in South Carolina. She also recently assisted in representing an association of shareholder-owned electric companies, international affiliates and industry associates worldwide, on matters involving corporate governance and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission.