EXPERT WITNESS - ARBITRATION - LITIGATION SUPPORT - REGULATORY POLICY SUPPORT

Oil - Gas - Power

ESAI's team of professionals deliver a wide range of experience in the oil, gas, and power industries. ESAI is globally recognized for expertise in all areas of market analysis and global energy trade. This expertise extends from US domestic physical energy markets to global futures and derivatives markets. ESAI is a licensed Commodity Trade Advisor with the National Association of Security Dealers (NASD).

ESAI has significant experience in presenting testimony to government bodies and regulatory agencies and is often called upon to advise government energy agencies on matters pertaining to strategic policy decisions. ESAI has recently represented a large utility in providing expert testimony to a state regulatory commission.

Numerous clients and law firms have called upon ESAI's expertise in market pricing and trade dynamics to provide objective judgments and professional highly analytical assessments on issues including:

• Contract pricing disputes
• Affiliate transfer pricing issues
• Direct consequential damages
• Economic analysis
• Use of petroleum index pricing for non-petroleum energy pricing
• Appropriate levels of speculative trading by regulated entities
• Standards of conduct of Risk Management Advisors
• Compliance by marketers with obligations to raw material producers
• Assessment of damages/liabilities of complex derivatives trades
• Regulatory pricing and market structure
• Market power

ESAI's team combines their thorough knowledge of markets with a rigid attention to detail in developing opinions or testimony to support a client's case. ESAI has achieved a high level of success as a result of its well grounded approach to complex issues.

Read Ed Krapels paper for the Oil & Gas law conference titled The Past, Present and Future of Energy Trading

For more information on ESAI's Arbitration, Litigation, and Regulatory Support Services, contact Thomas Sutro at 781.245.2036 or tsutro@esai.com.