William D. Steinmeier, Professional Corporation (PC), is a law and consulting firm based in Jefferson City, Missouri, although its practice extends both nationally and internationally. The firm was founded in January 1992 by Bill Steinmeier, former Chairman of the Missouri Public Service Commission and a past president of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC).

William D. Steinmeier, P.C., focuses on utility regulatory and competitive issues. The firm’s practice includes legal representation before the Missouri Public Service Commission; consulting concerning regulatory issues in Missouri and other states; expert testimony before state regulatory commissions, state legislatures, federal courts and the Congress; and lobbying Congress and state legislatures. Mr. Steinmeier also provides arbitration and mediation services.

In Missouri, the firm represents competitive telecommunications providers, other investor-owned utilities, industrial and commercial customers, gas marketers and governmental entities in matters before the Missouri Public Service Commission concerning telecommunications, natural gas, electricity and water services. That representation includes certification and merger and acquisition authority, advising on utility regulatory policy, and providing ongoing review of regulatory decisions and policy and procedural issues for clients. Telecommunications clients include numerous competitive local exchange and long-distance carriers. The firm also represents municipal and county governments, industrial customers seeking new utility service, commercial customers, natural gas marketers and pipelines. In addition, the firm offers analysis of the regulatory climate and regulatory practices and precedents to firms considering merger or acquisition opportunities.

William D. Steinmeier, P.C. has been involved in the competitive telecommunications industry since the earliest days of competition. In 1986, Mr. Steinmeier was appointed by Governor John Ashcroft to serve as Chairman of the Governor's Task Force on Telecommunications Reform, which crafted HB 360 (enacted in 1997) establishing the legal framework for competition in telecommunications in Missouri. Since local exchange competition was opened in 1996 by the federal Telecommunications Act, the firm has represented scores of competitive local exchange and long distance carriers before the Missouri PSC in individual and generic proceedings. WDSPC has represented competitive companies in matters involving certification, mergers and acquisitions, tariffs, interconnection agreements, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Eligible Telecommunications Carrier (ETC) designations, complaints against or by other telecommunications companies, and numerous generic dockets and investigations.

The consulting services of the firm include research and writing for specific clients on specialized subjects. For example, Bill Steinmeier performed a study, in conjunction with Professor George Gross of the University of Illinois, of the electric system reliability (generation, transmission and distribution) of a major, Midwest electric utility as part of the settlement of a complaint by a state Attorney General. The firm has also performed customized evaluations of the Missouri regulatory environment, and the regulatory environment in other Midwest states, for clients who were evaluating possible merger offers or other business possibilities involving regulated utilities.

The international work of the firm includes development of regulatory strategies for a major electric utility in Spain; serving on the faculty of seminars on electric industry restructuring and privatization in Vienna, Austria and Ghana, West Africa; and consulting with the Ministries of Energy on electric industry privatization in the Republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the former Soviet Union.

William D. Steinmeier, P.C. is able to network with independent economists, accountants, engineers, public affairs firms and other experts to offer a wide variety of services. In that regard, Bill is a member of the National Team for Governmental & Regulatory Strategies of Salmon Ventures Ltd.

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