The U.S. law firm Stoel Rives LLP is pleased to announce that Andrew Moratzka has joined the firm as a partner in the Energy group. Moratzka will work from the firm’s Minneapolis office.
Moratzka focuses his practice on energy and utility regulation. His clients include iron mines, paper companies, refineries, steel manufacturers and other large industrial customers of utilities. Moratzka regularly appears before state and federal regulatory bodies on a variety of issues, including major gas and electric rate cases, renewable energy credits, MISO proceedings, utility resource planning, utility contract negotiations, and various related legislative initiatives. He was previously a partner at Mackall, Crounse & Moore, PLC, where he also represented clients in numerous bankruptcy litigation cases.
“I’m very pleased to welcome Drew to our growing office,” said Minneapolis office managing partner Kevin Johnson. “Drawing on the resources of our nationally rated energy lawyers, and supported by our national cast of business litigators, Drew will complement our already strong energy and litigation resources here in the Midwest.”
Moratzka received his J.D. from the Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College, where he served as Editor-in-Chief for the Lewis & Clark Law Review (fka Journal of Small and Emerging Business Law). He also received a B.A. in mathematics and economics from St. Olaf College. Moratzka is admitted to practice in Minnesota.
