Joseph Karp
Partner
Winston & Strawn, LLP

Joseph Karp is a partner in the firm's energy group who focuses his practice on regulatory, transactional, and project development matters.

Mr. Karp has dealt with natural gas and electric issues in the United States and internationally. His experience in these areas includes representing end users in retail gas and electricity transactions and representing electricity generators in connection with electricity sales, fuel supply, interconnection, transmission, and other areas. Mr. Karp also has represented clients in numerous electricity generation asset sale and project finance transactions, representing buyers, sellers, developers, and lenders. In the renewable energy area, Mr. Karp has represented developers and power purchasers in matters involving wind, solar, biomass, landfill gas, geothermal, and other technologies.

Mr. Karp regularly represents the California Wind Energy Association and the California Cogeneration Council in regulatory proceedings before the California Public Utilities Commission, involving natural gas unbundling, electric industry restructuring, and renewable portfolio standard issues. He also representsinvestor-owned water utilities before the California Public Utilities Commission.

Mr. Karp was included in the 2004 and 2005 editions of Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers, the 2004 and 2005 editions of Northern California Super Lawyers, and the 2005, 2006, and 2007 editions of The Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Karp is a member of the American Bar Association's Energy and Natural Resource Section.

Mr. Karp received a B.A. in Law and Society from State University of New York at Binghamton, where he received the Foundation Award for Academic Excellence and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, in 1986. He received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1989.