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Moss & Barnett is pleased to announce that attorney Pat Zomer and the firm have been ranked in the 2025 edition of Chambers USA (released on June 5, 2025) in its Energy & Natural Resources practice area for Minnesota. Pat earned a “Band 1” designation – the publication’s highest ranking – and Moss & Barnett earned a “Band 2” designation.

Pat represents public utilities and other clients before multiple state regulatory agencies. In his work with Moss & Barnett’s energy and public utilities team, he helps clients achieve positive outcomes on a variety of financial and regulatory issues. He is also a member of Moss & Barnett’s financial transactions team, assisting banking clients with all aspects of commercial lending transactions.

About Moss & Barnett's Energy and Public Utilities Practice Area

Moss & Barnett provides regulatory advocacy and transactional services to investor-owned and cooperative electric and other utility clients across the country.

Regulatory Advocacy: We regularly advise and represent investor-owned and cooperative utility service providers in regulatory proceedings before local, state, and federal regulatory bodies, including contested case matters, written presentations, and in-person advocacy. Moss & Barnett assists its utility and cooperative clients with rate cases, other rate proceedings (such as riders), service disputes, PURPA cases, transaction approvals, facilities cases, and resource planning. We work with senior management as well as internal and outside experts to achieve strategic objectives.

Transactional Services: We regularly provide transactional services, representing buyers, sellers, borrowers, and lenders in transactions involving regulated utility services. Our representation extends to commercial contracting, project financing and mergers, acquisitions, sales, and joint ventures.

About Chambers USA

Chambers USA is a guide produced by the U.K.-based legal publisher, Chambers and Partners. It identifies the best lawyers and law firms in the U.S. in a variety of practice areas. Chambers bases its evaluations on formal submissions completed by law firms, as well as feedback from clients and other law firms. Law firms and individual lawyers are ranked in bands from 1 (highest) to 6 (lowest). Chambers rankings are the definitive mark of excellence across the legal industry. A ranking from Chambers shows that an individual attorney and a firm has stood out in the most rigorous, independent, and in-depth research process of any legal directory on the market and has emerged as one of the best in their field.

The Chambers Energy & Natural Resources practice area covers the corporate, commercial, and regulatory issues arising from the energy sector. This includes the regulatory components of M&A and other transactional work, as well as pure regulatory work related to the application for licenses and compliance. Contentious matters are also considered here, including enforcement actions, government investigations, and rate disputes.