Thirty-year projects.
Thirty-minute firm selection.
Energy and utility companies manage high-value, long-duration legal matters — regulatory proceedings, project finance, environmental litigation, and the legal complexity of the energy transition. When a single infrastructure project can generate tens of millions in legal fees, outside counsel governance can't be an afterthought. Leading energy companies use PERSUIT to bring competitive discipline to every outside counsel engagement. Because when regulatory exposure spans decades and environmental liability doesn't have a statute of limitations, you need a system — not a spreadsheet.
Three pressures
every energy GC
is managing at once.
These aren't generic legal department problems. They're specific to energy — shaped by regulatory transformation, environmental liability exposure, and the capital intensity of infrastructure projects that generate legal costs measured in decades, not quarters.
PERSUIT was built for exactly this environment. Not adapted from a general procurement tool. Built for the complexity, duration, and regulatory depth of legal work in the energy sector.
Energy transition & regulatory overhaul
Decarbonization mandates, renewable energy regulations, grid modernization requirements, carbon pricing mechanisms. The energy transition is reshaping the regulatory landscape faster than most legal teams can staff for. Managing the outside counsel needed to navigate this transition requires a system that scales with regulatory change.
Environmental litigation & ESG obligations
Climate litigation, environmental remediation, Superfund exposure, ESG disclosure requirements, shareholder activism. Energy companies face environmental legal exposure that spans decades and jurisdictions. When a single remediation matter can cost hundreds of millions, outside counsel cost governance isn't optional — it's fiduciary.
Infrastructure & project finance complexity
LNG terminals, offshore wind farms, pipeline expansions, grid interconnections — major infrastructure projects generate legal fees measured in tens of millions per project. Without structured competitive sourcing and billing governance, project legal costs become a line item nobody can explain to the Board.
Counsel management
built for projects
that span decades.
Most energy legal functions manage outside counsel across regulatory proceedings, project development, environmental disputes, and ongoing operational compliance. Far fewer have a system that connects counsel selection to cost management across all of them.
PERSUIT turns your outside counsel relationships into a managed, competitive process — with structured responses for every engagement, documented selection criteria, and real-time spend visibility across your entire legal portfolio.
Structure regulatory proceedings counsel
Rate cases, permitting disputes, FERC/NERC compliance, state PUC proceedings — regulatory work in energy is high-volume and jurisdiction-specific. PERSUIT enables structured competitive selection by regulatory body, matter type, and jurisdiction to ensure the right firm is selected for the right reason.
Manage project development legal costs
Infrastructure projects generate legal spend across development, permitting, financing, and construction phases. PERSUIT provides cost visibility and billing governance across the full project lifecycle — so legal spend is managed as rigorously as the engineering budget.
Coordinate environmental dispute counsel
Environmental litigation, remediation proceedings, and Superfund matters require coordinated counsel management across jurisdictions and decades. PERSUIT provides portfolio-wide cost visibility, firm performance tracking, and billing rule enforcement across your entire environmental portfolio.
Track every engagement decision
Every firm selection — who was invited, who responded, why the winning firm was chosen — is documented in PERSUIT. The audit trail exists because it's built into the workflow, giving your Board and regulators the governance data they expect.
ESG compliance.
For the energy teams
navigating the transition.
Climate litigation, ESG disclosure requirements, CSRD compliance, and shareholder activism are creating a new category of legal spend for energy companies. Managing outside counsel for climate-related matters — from disclosure advisory to litigation defense — requires the same structured approach you apply to any other high-stakes legal work.
PERSUIT enables energy legal teams to competitively source ESG and climate litigation counsel, manage environmental compliance engagements, and maintain full audit trails on every engagement — with the enterprise security documentation your procurement and compliance teams require.
Access the Trust Center →The matter types that shape your spend.
Outside counsel spend in energy is dominated by a small number of high-value, long-duration matter categories. Here's how PERSUIT changes the economics of each one.
Regulatory Proceedings
Rate cases, permitting disputes, FERC compliance, state regulatory proceedings, and energy market rules. Regulatory work in energy is perpetual and jurisdiction-specific. PERSUIT structures the competitive process so counsel is selected on regulatory expertise and value, not just geographic proximity.
Environmental Litigation
Superfund proceedings, remediation disputes, climate litigation, and environmental enforcement actions. These matters run for decades and generate significant legal spend. PERSUIT provides portfolio-wide cost visibility and firm performance tracking across your entire environmental docket.
Project Finance
LNG terminals, offshore wind, solar development, grid modernization — project finance legal work involves complex multi-party transactions. PERSUIT's structured responses ensure scope and fees are agreed upfront, with billing rules that enforce what was negotiated through project completion.
Energy Transactions
Asset acquisitions, divestitures, JV formations, and energy trading disputes. PERSUIT's competitive process surfaces market rates for your specific transaction type, with fee governance that keeps high-value deal costs under control from letter of intent through closing.
Security that passes
your review,
not just ours.
Energy and utility companies run rigorous third-party vendor assessments — driven by critical infrastructure protection requirements, NERC CIP compliance, and the sensitivity of regulatory and project data. PERSUIT has passed the security reviews of major energy companies. Here's what their teams found.
Information Security Management
Certified against the current version of the international ISMS standard. Independently audited. Not self-assessed.
Audited Controls
SOC 1 Type 2 attested. SOC 2 report available under NDA via the PERSUIT Trust Center — alongside pentest report, network diagram, and data flow documentation.
Cloud Security
Cloud Security Alliance STAR certified. Hosted on Google Cloud. SecurityScorecard: A. UpGuard: 865/950. Third-party scores, independently assigned.
SSO & Role-Based Permissions
SSO support. Role-based access controls. Full audit logging on every platform action. Your matter data is strictly isolated — no cross-customer data access, ever.
BC/DR & Data Governance
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery policy in place with tested contingency planning. Encryption policy, acceptable use policy, and full data chain of custody documentation available.
See what energy legal teams are achieving.
We'll show you what a PERSUIT demo looks like for an energy legal function — regulatory proceedings, environmental litigation, project finance, and what the CFO conversation looks like when you have the data.