Attorney at K&L Gates LLP
Mr. Holtzman’s practice is focused on environmental law, constitutional law, appellate litigation, gaming law, and commercial litigation. He represents energy industry clients in agency enforcement activities, allegations of water and surface contamination, property rights disputes, deed and contract interpretation issues, challenges to permits, and freedom of information laws. Mr. Holtzman advises energy industry clients on Pennsylvania and federal regulatory compliance issues, including stream crossing, spill remediation, waste processing, stormwater discharge, mechanical integrity, sensitive species, permitting, and reporting issues.

Associate at K&L Gates LLP
Mr. Macfarlan is an associate in the firm’s environment, land and natural resources practice group. He counsels energy, industrial, utility and commercial sector clients on compliance with federal, state and local environmental and land use laws. He works with regulatory regimes governing wastewater and stormwater discharges, wetland and stream protection, air emissions, solid and hazardous waste management, water withdrawals, chemical and toxic substance controls, release reporting and response, and preservation of endangered species, cultural resources and historic properties.

Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PCMr. Povilaitis focuses his practice on administrative law matters with special emphasis on energy, communications, water/wastewater and transportation public utility law. His practice ranges from proactive counseling to litigation before administrative agencies, and appellate matters before state and federal courts. With nearly 20 years of service for the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PaPUC), Mr. Povilaitis has significant regulatory experience in electricity, natural gas, water, transportation and communications law. After joining the Commission in 1978, he served as assistant counsel, federal division deputy chief counsel and first deputy chief counsel before assuming the position of chief counsel in 1989. Mr. Povilaitis served as the Commission’s counsel in the litigation that established the Pike County Doctrine. Since 1990, Mr. Povilaitis has been a course planner and speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Institutes’s biannual Public Utility Law Conference and more recently he has served as a course planner for the biannual PaPUC Bench Bar Conference.

Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PCMr. Seltzer focuses his practice on domestic and international electric and gas matters with a concentration on transactions and litigation/appellate matters before various state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He has actively represented public utilities and other stakeholders before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission for 38 years, particularly in the areas of electricity, gas, water and transportation. His current emphasis is on obtaining the state regulatory approvals for the merger or acquisition of gas and electric utilities, and addressing the real estate, regulatory and financing phases of renewable energy project development. He is co-chair of the firm’s Power Generation, Renewable & Utility Practice Group.

Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PCMr. Wein’s environmental practice has focused on assisting clients in a wide variety environmental areas, including important water quality, waste management, brownfields, energy and air quality matters at both the state and federal levels. He has handled major environmental litigation in Federal Court, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania’s Environmental Hearing Board. Mr. Wein’s litigation work for clients in the oil, gas, energy and natural resources industries has included cases under the Federal Clean Water Act, Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, the Pennsylvania Non Coal and Coal Surface Mining Acts, the Solid Waste Management Act, the Federal Resource Conservation & Recovery Act, the Oil & Gas Act and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (the “Superfund Law”). Throughout his career, Mr. Wein has resolved matters with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) as well as state agencies in New York, Ohio, West Virginia and Delaware.

Mr. Wendaur serves as counsel in the Offit Kurman Attorneys at Law’s Business Law and Transactions practice group. Mr. Wendaur maintains a broad corporate and transactional practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, corporate governance, venture capital transactions, and corporate restructurings. He also represents clients in commercial real estate and energy matters, including transactions, financing, land use, and zoning issues. Mr. Wendaur represents clients of all sizes, including individuals, closely held companies, investor groups, publicly traded companies, and government entities. He regularly provides strategic business counseling to these clients to help them achieve their goals and business objectives. Prior to joining Offit Kurman, Mr. Wendaur owned and operated a small law firm representing small businesses, startups, real estate developers, and government entities in transactional and litigation matters. He also worked at a regional Philadelphia-based law firm servicing a wide range of domestic and international companies. Mr. Wendaur obtained his J.D. degree from Widener School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Allegheny College.