Bill Moore

Professional Background

Experience

• Advises clients on a wide range of legal issues while facilitating the achievement of their business objectives
• Represents clients and directs strategy in complex and high-profile regulatory and legislative matters
• Assists energy clients in business transactions and day-to-day operations
• Possesses over two decades of experience in, and extensive knowledge of, Texas’s electricity industry
• Leads, as outside counsel, investigations into complex corporate activities
• Presents to and serves as counsel to sophisticated corporate boards
• Provides sound and timely legislative drafting, analysis, and lobbying in Texas Legislature and Congress
• Recognizes and manages external perception concerns and relationships for regulated businesses in the electric and oil and gas industries
• Coordinates and ensures timely and effective regulatory policy development and advocacy
• Provides thorough diligence regarding regulatory aspects of M&A transactions
• Provides quick, creative legislative drafting for various businesses 
• Served as General Counsel of largest power generation company and largest retail electric provider in Texas
• Has represented companies including financial investors, large Texas power generation and retailing companies, a large power generation cooperative, a large out-of-state power generation company, and a large midstream oil and gas company
• Serves as primary legislative counsel and has testified multiple times before Texas Legislature for a major Texas electric industry participant, resulting in successful bill passage by the Legislature or other successful results
• Leads intensive investigations into complex corporate activities
• Provides seasoned and detailed regulatory compliance advice
• Successfully contested the legal basis for, and ultimately settled favorably, the largest wholesale market regulatory enforcement action in Texas Public Utility Commission history
• Led the legal component of a large corporation’s regulatory/legislative team that ultimately obtained Texas legislative satisfaction with the largest private equity transaction in history
• As General Counsel, created, staffed and oversaw the compliance organization for a major Texas electric energy market participant
• Led efforts to successfully defend, against appeals in state and federal courts, environmental permits for three new large coal-fired power generation units

Awards and Recognition

• Ranked: Chambers USA, Energy: State Regulatory & Litigation (Electricity) - Texas, 2019 - present

Admitted to Practice

• Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas

Education

• University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas
  - J.D., 1995
  - Order of the Coif
  - The Review of Litigation, Chief Articles Editor
• Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
  - B.S., Civil Engineering, 1987

Publications & Presentations

• Discussion of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, Gulf Coast Power Association, Houston, Texas, September 2011
• Some Tips for Legislative Practice, State Bar of Texas Advanced Administrative Law Course, Austin, Texas, September 2010
• The Elusive Pursuit of New Federal Energy Legislation, State Bar of Texas Public Utility Law Section Annual Meeting and Seminar, Austin, Texas, August 2004
• "Analysis of a Federal Policy Objective: The Absence of State Regulatory Authority Over Privatized Military Base Utility Systems,” 3 Texas Tech Journal of Texas Administrative Law, v. 81 , 2002

Professional & Community Activities

• State Bar of Texas
  - Administrative & Public Law Section
  - Public Utility Law Section
• Austin Bar Association
  - Administrative Law Section
  - Environmental Law Section
• American Bar Association
  - Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice Section
  - Environment, Energy, & Resources Section
  - Infrastructure & Regulated Industries Section
• A&M PAC
  - Board of Directors, 2019-present
• Texas A&M 12th Man Foundation
  - Board of Trustees, 2012–2015
  - Chair, Legal Committee, 2012–2014
  - Member, Legal Committee, 2011–2019
• Helping Hand Home for Children, Community Advisory Board, 2016–present
• Volunteer and Fundraiser
  - Capital Area Food Bank
  - Boy Scouts
  - North Texas Food Bank
  - United Way of Metropolitan Dallas
  - Multiple Sclerosis Society
  - Texas A&M 12th Man Foundation
  - Local Churches