Stoel Rives announced that Jennifer Spaletta has joined the firm as an environment, land and natural resources partner in Sacramento. Spaletta is a water, real estate and business law attorney and litigator. She has served as lead trial counsel in bench and jury trials throughout California and in the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. Spaletta has spent the last decade as principal of Spaletta Law PC, and prior to that was a partner at Herum\Crabtree\Suntag, an agriculture law-focused boutique in Stockton.

Sidley Austin announced that Andrea Lucan has joined the Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s energy, transportation, and infrastructure group. She joins Sidley from Allen & Overy, where she was the office managing partner in Los Angeles. Lucan advises clients in project development and financing, mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financing, equipment purchase and sale agreements, and power purchase agreements. Her practice focuses on companies engaged in the development, construction, and operation of solar power, wind power, energy storage and alternative energy projects.