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EDUCATION College of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law, Williamsburg, Virginia, J.D., 1981 
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, B.A., 1978
ADMITTED Virginia 1981 PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Virginia |
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Mark J. La Fratta
Partner
One James Center
mlafratta@mcguirewoods.com901 East Cary Street Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030 F: 804.698.2096 |
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Mr. La Fratta has a wealth of experience on the "front end" of power generation projects, including power purchaser agreements, tolling agreements, EPC contracts, O&M contracts, equipment purchases and fuel contracts. He has negotiated some 20,000 MWs of power purchase and tolling contracts on behalf of both the power purchasers and developers of such projects.
He has represented developers of projects before utility commissions and in preparing bids, drafting and negotiating power purchase contracts and other project documents, and giving legal opinions for financings, as well as representing lenders to power projects. He has assisted several clients for "inside the fence" power projects for industrial facilities in several states. He has represented participants in projects throughout the United States and in Bulgaria, Kazakhstan and Pakistan.
- Virginia Power, Attorney (In-House), 1981-1990
- Drafting Power Purchase Agreements, Energy and Mineral Law Institute, May 2001
- Drafting Power Purchase Agreements, Eastern Mineral Law Institute, April, 1993
- Proposal Evaluation Methodology for a Fossil Power Plant Life Extension (Co-Author), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1985
- Electric Utility Restructuring, McGraw Hill, June, 1996
- Electric Deregulation, Congress of Industrial Boiler Operators, June, 1996
- Purchasing and Financing Electric Power, Institute For International Education, February, 1996
- Virginia Bar Association
- Virginia State Bar, Section of Administrative Law
- Energy Bar Association
- St. Thomas More Society of Catholic Lawyers