Charles Sieving JD

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Mr. Charles Sieving serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal, Environmental, and Federal Regulatory Affairs Officer, and General Counsel at NextEra Energy. He is the head of the corporate legal department, with responsibility for the legal affairs of the company. Mr. Sieving also oversees the company's environmental services, corporate secretary, and corporate compliance groups; he also had responsibility for FPL FiberNet, the company's fiber-optic services provider, from August 2015 until its sale in early 2017. Mr. Sieving has served as executive vice president & general counsel since he joined NextEra Energy in December 2008. Mr. Sieving also is the general counsel of NextEra Energy Partners, LP, he has served in this role since the partnership's formation in 2014 and formerly served as a board member of the general partner of NextEra Energy Partners from May 2014 to August 2017. Previously, Mr. Sieving served as executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary of one of the largest publicly held competitive telecommunications companies at the time, where he had responsibility for legal, regulatory, and legislative affairs. Before that, he was a partner in the Corporate, Securities and Finance Practice Group of Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P. in Washington, D.C., where his practice focused on the representation of public companies in securities and business combination transactions, on corporate governance, and on securities law and stock exchange compliance matters. Mr. Sieving was a frequent contributor to that firm's publication on SEC and stock exchange developments. Mr. Sieving received his Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was Publications Editor of the Cincinnati Law Review, and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Denison University.