Ivan Gold

Ivan Gold is Senior Counsel in the firm's Portland office.  His legal and business careers have focused on transactions involving electricity, natural gas and regulated industries.  As a practicing lawyer, he has been a state and federal regulator, and has represented: investor-owned public utilities on operations, rates, mergers and acquisitions; large industrial customers of public utilities; providers of bulk power to electric and gas utilities; independent power producers; and real estate developers.  During his business career, he has held senior management positions with developers of: large-scale wind farms, small-scale hydro-electric projects; and natural gas and biomass-fired generation projects in the United States and Latin America.  He has advised lenders on large independent power projects and international developers on infrastructure projects.

Ivan is a frequent speaker and writer on climate change, renewable energy projects, and federal, state and international regulation of greenhouse gases.  In 1975-76 he was Deputy Public Utility Commissioner of the State of Oregon.  In 1977-78, during  airline deregulation, he was Acting Enforcement Director at the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board.

Professional Recognition

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America

Professional Leadership

• ABA Subcommittee on International Energy and Resource Transactions, Program Co-Chair, 2008
• ABA Subcommittee on Cleantech Climate Change and Communications, 2010 - 2011

Community Involvement

• White Bird Dance Company, Director
• Cedar Sinai Park (Retirement Center), Trustee
• Whitman College Parents Emeriti Fund, Chair
• Ronald McDonald House, San Francisco, Founder and Chairman Emeritus
• Sinai Family Home Service, Board Member
• Oregon-Israel Business Association, Director

Related Employment

• Cogeneration Services, Inc., Developer of renewable energy projects in the U.S. and South America, President, 1979-2004
• Ater, Wynne, Hewitt, Dodson & Skerrit, Partner, 1987-1991
• Puget Columbia Industrial Pipeline, Executive Director of gas pipeline project for industrial customers, 1987-1988
• Hydropool, Inc., Developer of small scale hydro projects, President, 1983-1986
• Windfarms, Ltd., First large U.S. wind energy developer, General Counsel, 1980-1982
• Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler, Partner, 1978-1980
• Civil Aeronautics Board, Acting Director of Enforcement, 1977 - 1978
• Deputy Public Utility Commissioner Oregon, 1975-1976

Clerkships

• Hon. Gus J. Solomon, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, 1971 - 1972