Overview Choate maintains a highly active practice representing underwriters in financing transactions within the utility industry. We combine our deep focus on finance with decades of experience structuring transactions and counseling issuers and underwriters on finance, 34 Act compliance and taxation matters to advise issuers and underwriters on public, private, and tax-exempt financing transactions for investor-owned, municipal-owned, and member-owned electric, gas and water utilities. Our clients include some of the nation’s largest banks and lenders in transactions involving a Fortune 500 utility company and 35 of its subsidiaries on the East Coast, as well as one of the Northwest’s largest utility providers and over 25 of its subsidiaries.