About Us
Welcome to Kolobara Law Firm, LLC,
During my in-house career, I occasionally needed to engage outside assistance, usually during an extremely busy period. However, I often
had to spend a considerable time explaining the operational or financial characteristics of the underlying transactions before I could get the assistance I needed. Unfortunately, the reality is that one cannot be expected to be familiar with the complexity of the trade floor if he or she does not have an extensive hands-on experience that only in-house experience provides.
I founded Kolobara Law Firm to offer the assistance, I believe, trading professionals need in order to meet their business challenges and goals while, at the same time, minimizing their legal and financial exposure. We are prepared to offer helping hand to traders, middle office professionals, contract and compliance professionals, as well as senior managements and governing bodies of any market participants involved in trading or hedging activities.
Kolobara Law Firm is a resource for a variety of market participants including utilities, public and municipal electric load serving entities, merchant generators, pipelines, natural gas and liquids producers and processors, futures brokers, hedge funds, investment banks, commodity trading advisors, investment funds, clearing brokers, and commodities and derivatives trading exchanges. Additionally, we are here to assist law firms, auditors, and consultants involved in commodities and derivatives activities.
Commodities and derivatives trading is a dynamic and continuously evolving activity. Often, market participants are faced with making a complex decision in very significant time constraints. Kolobara Law Firm provides real-time legal and compliance advice in order to allow market participants to concentrate on the execution of the underlying business strategies without having to risk costly delays associated with legal or compliance risks. As a virtual law firm, we have the flexibility to attend to our clients’ needs regardless of location. Also, a low overhead allows us to offer very competitive rates.
Founder | Managing Attorney
Miki Kolobara is the Managing Attorney at Kolobara Law Firm, LLC. Miki practices in commodities and derivatives trading law with particular emphasis on energy trading, energy risk management, and energy trading compliance. Prior to founding Kolobara Law Firm, Miki spent 15 years working for several large energy companies where he assisted in creating and implementing trading policies and procedures, drafting standard trading and credit documentation, and training front and middle office personnel about legal and compliance aspects of energy trading. He has negotiated hundreds of master agreements and documentation for physical and financial transactions, as well as structured transactions for natural gas, electricity, coal, crude oil, and emissions allowances.
Miki serves on the Futures and Derivatives Law Committee of the American Bar Association, as well as the North American Energy Standards Board’s contracting committee where he participated in drafting the NAESB standard master agreement for natural gas trading. Additionally, Miki is active in the International Energy Credit Associations’ Contracts and Legal committee and its Dodd-Frank Act working group. As a member of the WSPP contracting committee, Miki participated in drafting of the WSPP standard master agreement for electricity trading. Miki is a frequent speaker on topics related to energy trading, hedging, risk management, and compliance.
Miki received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Nebraska Law College in 1996 and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 1992. Miki was admitted to practice in Arizona in 2004 and in Nebraska in 2016.
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