Patrick Kealy

Patrick Kealy is one of the leaders of Mintz Levin’s Energy and Clean Technology Practice Group. In addition to assisting the firm’s energy and clean tech venture practice clients on corporate matters, Patrick counsels firm clients on the development and operation of energy projects, including matters related to project development and finance, state and federal regulations, sales and marketing and emerging energy markets.

Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Patrick was senior counsel at Calpine Corporation, an independent power producer and energy trading company. Patrick supported Calpine’s eastern energy market activities on legal matters related to operations, asset optimization, marketing and sales, business and project development, power plant and gas asset divestitures, litigation and regulatory issues.

Prior to Calpine, Patrick was an attorney in the energy practice of Dickstein Shapiro, LLP, a major Washington, DC law firm, where he focused his practice on representing utilities, IPPs, marketers, and trade groups on matters regarding market design, interconnection and transmission issues, electric utility restructuring and RTOs in federal court, FERC and state commission proceedings. Transactional experience included asset purchases and sales, interconnection agreements, power purchase agreements, Market Based Rate applications and Exempt Wholesale Generator petitions.

Immediately following law school, Patrick was a law clerk for Administrative Law Judges Edward M. Silverstein and Jacob Leventhal at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Patrick is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from American University and his J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University.