Greg Klatt's legal experience includes a wide range of regulatory and transactional work, as well as complex litigation.  For over a decade, Mr. Klatt has specialized in representing energy and telecom market participants, including producers, marketers, service providers and large customers, in state and federal regulatory proceedings.  He also counsels businesses and financial institutions about statutory and regulatory requirements that may impact their energy and telecom business ventures. 

Prior to his association with Douglass & Liddell, Mr. Klatt was a member of the Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Group of White & Case LLP.  Mr. Klatt began practicing law as an associate with Jones Day.  He has also clerked for a boutique firm in San Francisco that specializes in representing Chinese and Asian-American companies and individuals.

Prior to entering the legal profession, Mr. Klatt served with the United State's quasi-official diplomatic mission in Taiwan.  He speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese and has a wide range of professional and personal ties with China and Taiwan.  In learning to bridge the cultural divides between East and West, Mr. Klatt has developed a unique set of skills that he employs in furtherance of our clients' legal and business objectives.

Mr. Klatt received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley.  He graduated with honors from the University of San Francisco and is a member of the Alphas Sigma Nu honor society.  He also studied Chinese at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China.

Selected Achievements:

• Lead counsel for association of non-utility electric service providers (ESPs) in regulatory proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) implementing California’s Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) programs.

• Assist several ESPs with the preparation and submission of regulatory compliance reports for RPS and Resource Adequacy programs to CPUC staff, and responses to CEC staff data requests for the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report.

• Lead counsel for California’s largest provider of non-emergency community information and referral services in proceeding before the CPUC resulting in approval of the first application for authorization to use the 211 abbreviated dialing code.

• Lead counsel for global managed services company in proceeding before the CPUC resulting in approval of agreement to provide information technology services to national telecommunications company’s local directory services subsidiaries.

• Negotiated settlement resulting in end-use customer's relinquishment of claims to 90% of disputed utility generation billing credits to ESP.

• Lead counsel for ESP trade association and coalition of large end-use customers in electric utility rate cases before the CPUC.

• Lead counsel for major interstate pipeline in gas utility rate cases before the CPUC.