James Chicoski

/My focus

I focus my practice on representing both regulated and unregulated energy clients on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, equity investments, and corporate governance matters.

My practice spans a broad scope of the energy sector, including large-scale renewables, such as utility-scale and distributed solar, onshore and offshore wind, battery storage, and pumped hydro, as well as conventional generation, electric transmission, LNG, and natural gas pipeline infrastructure.

Having spent many years in my clients’ position, I bring a firsthand understanding of how external legal advisors add value to in-house counsel. In working with clients, I take the time to understand their internal sensitivities and priorities, so that my advice is informed by their risk tolerance, budgetary constraints, and the broader business environment in which they operate. This perspective shapes my collaborative, practical, and solutions-oriented approach, ensuring that my advice is closely aligned with, and enables, their business objectives.

In addition to representing clients in the energy sector, I have experience advising clients in corporate and transactional matters across a broad range of both regulated and unregulated industries, including life sciences.

/Looking ahead

Across the energy and infrastructure sector, several converging trends are shaping client priorities for the coming years: tightening grid capacity, rising power demand driven by AI and data center development, continued focus on grid reliability and thermal asset transition, and increasingly complex regulatory and tax structuring for new projects. Clients are operating in a market where access to power, speed of execution, and sophisticated coordination across commercial, regulatory, finance, and tax issues are becoming critical differentiators. This environment is creating significant opportunities for developers, investors, utilities, and large energy users, while also requiring practical, business-minded legal advice that understands, encompasses, and ultimately enables projects’ approval, construction, financing, and operation.