Scott Deatherage, Attorney & Advisor
Scott brings his innovative approach to environmental, energy, and blockchain matters for companies, investment funds, and startups. He has extensive experience in environmental and energy matters and represents clients in business law such as negotiating contracts, forming corporations, and the purchase and sale of companies and assets.
Scott is based in Dallas and works on matters and for clients in the Texas area as well as the greater United States, and other parts of the world. Want to dig deeper into Scott’s extensive experience and his work in environmental, energy, and blockchain? Read more on the blog here.
Best Lawyers in America, Environmental
What We Do
Since the founding of the firm S Deatherage Law’s in 2016, Scott has brought his innovative approach as an environmental attorney to the intersection of environmental, energy, and business law matters. He has advised business entities for decades and negotiated numerous contracts involving purchases and sales of businesses and assets, leases, independent contractors, engineering, consulting, construction and environmental and energy matters.
Scott is based in Dallas and works on matters and for clients in the Texas area as well as the greater United States.. If you would like more information on Scott’s extensive experience and his work in environmental, energy, and business law, click here? Read more on the blog here.
Environment
Scott Deatherage is one of Texas’ leading environmental and energy lawyers with over 35 years of experience in achieving successful outcomes for his clients. Peers, colleagues, and clients have repeatedly selected Scott for various honors including D Magazine’s “Best Environmental Attorney in Dallas”, SuperLawyers, and Best Lawyers.
Scott represents clients in environmental matters such as air emissions permits, wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, groundwater contamination, and restoration and reuse of contaminated properties. He is a leading attorney in the climate change and carbon trading space.
Energy
Scott represents renewable, natural gas, and distributed energy project developers, energy storage project developers, landowners, and private equity companies on a wide range of regulatory and transactional issues. He has assisted in negotiating ground leases, power purchase agreements, EPC agreements, interconnection agreements, as well as property tax exemptions and abatements. Scott also has represented lenders in relation to the financing of renewable energy projects. His legal practice extends to energy matters involving wind, solar, anaerobic digestion, biomass, waste-to-energy, and natural gas projects.
Business Law: Contracts, Company Formations, General Counsel
Scott has worked with a number of clients in business law. He has assisted clients in setting up limited liability companies, drafting LLC operating agreement, and negotiating LLC membership interest purchase agreements or MIPAs.
In the areas of advice and negotiation of contracts, Scott has advised clients and negotiated on their behalf a number of commercial contracts as listed below.
Contract Drafting and Negotiation
Scott has reviewed, negotiated, and developed agreements in the following construction areas:
- commercial construction contracts, including AIA form contracts,
- engineering, procurement, and construction agreements,
- consulting and engineering agreements,
- architect contracts,
- master services agreements,
- vendor agreements, and
- procurement agreements.
He has drafted and negotiated numerous other types of agreements.
- leases for renewable energy projects, including solar leases (utility scale and distributed),
- power purchase agreements (utility scale and distributed),
- energy storage agreements,
- energy efficiency agreements,
- offtake agreements,
- non-disclosure and non-circumvention agreements,
- independent contractor agreements,
- limited liability company operating agreements,
- membership interest purchase agreements,
- shareholder agreements,
- advisory board agreements,
- referral agreements,
- software agreements,
- marketing and distribution agreements,
- memoranda of understanding and letters of intent,
- non-compete agreements,
- purchase and sale agreements,
- escrow agreements,
- LED lighting agreements,
- environmental remediation agreements, and
- access agreements.
Carbon Trading Law and Practice
In Carbon Trading Law and Practice, author Scott D. Deatherage provides practitioners with a comprehensive practical guide to the US and international practice of carbon emissions trading. The book includes a comprehensive examination of state, federal, and international climate change and greenhouse gas laws and regulations, emissions trading, international and EU law, other reduction programs, carbon credit projects and financing, climate change disclosure, and the US regulatory regime for greenhouse gas regulation and emissions trading.