Christine V. Bator
Of Counsel
Biography
Christine V. Bator is Of Counsel to Pearlman and Miranda. Her practice focuses on Corporate and Regulated Entities including energy, water, health and other critical infrastructure industries.
Ms. Bator has legal expertise in public-private partnerships, corporate, regulatory, administrative law, arbitrations and financial transactions and acquisitions. She has served as outside general counsel and special counsel to numerous entities. Ms. Bator has served as a rule 1:40 mediator and an arbitrator for the American Health Lawyers Association. She was appointed Chair of the District VII Fee Arbitration Committee by the New Jersey Supreme Court for two 4-year terms.
Ms. Bator specializes in public utility regulation (including water, telecommunications, energy and one of the nation’s largest alternative energy programs), transportation and health care. Ms. Bator served in the administration of five New Jersey Governors as a Commissioner of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, New Jersey Highway Authority, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and in-house counsel to the Commissioner of Health.
As a Commissioner of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Ms. Bator was responsible for regulating the Energy industry in New Jersey. She was a member of the National Association of Regulatory Commissioners Gas and Critical Infrastructure Committees, as well as a member of the advisory committee of the Gas Technology Institute, a non-profit organization that developed new technology for the natural gas industry.
In her role as a Commissioner of the $2 billion New Jersey Highway Authority, which owned and operated the Garden State Parkway, Ms. Bator chaired the audit and finance committees, created the authority’s first audit committee charter, worked to accomplish the Authority’s merger with the New Jersey Turnpike Authority and the privatization of the Garden State Arts Center.
At the New Jersey Department of Health, Ms. Bator served as the Director of the Office of Legal Affairs and oversaw the regulatory and administrative process for the agency.
Ms. Bator has written and lectured extensively on corporate governance, health care, energy, environmental and business and regulatory issues. As an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers Law School, she teaches a high-level seminar and writing intensive course on Energy Law, focusing on current legal and regulatory developments and critical legal research.
As a past President of Executive Women of New Jersey, Ms. Bator created its first program dedicated to increasing the number of women on corporate boards. Ms. Bator was also on the board of the New Jersey Women’s Political Caucus and task force chair for the National Women’s Political Caucus. She was elected to two terms as a NJ Republican State Committeewoman.
BAR ADMISSIONS
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Education
BA Economics Seton Hall University (Economics Award for highest honors)
JD from Seton Hall Law School
LLM in Corporate Law from New York University Law School
Professional Memberships
New Jersey Bar Association
Energy Bar Association
American Health Lawyers
National Association of Regulatory Commissioners Emeritus
BOARD EXPERIENCE
Commissioner, NJ Board of Public Utilities
Member, National Association of Regulatory Commissioners, Member, Gas and Critical Infrastructure Committees.
Advisory Committee Member, Gas Technology Institute
Commissioner, New Jersey Highway Authority
One of seven commissioners who managed the 2-billion-dollar Garden State Parkway Elected Secretary in 1995. Chair Operations and Finance Committees; Member, Audit and Personnel Committees.
Director, Garden State Arts Center Foundation
Committeewoman, NJ Republican State Committee
Member, Vue Sarasota Bay Finance and Contracts Committee
Trustee, New Jersey Women Lawyers Association Co-Chair Public Policy Committee
Chair, Supreme Court District VII Fee Arbitration Panel
Member, Executive Women of New Jersey Salute to the Policymakers Committee
Member, Seton Hall University Advisory Committee
Director, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education
New Jersey Bar Association
1996-2001 Trustee
1996-1999 Member, Finance Committee
2001- 2006 Member and Vice Chair, Professional Responsibility Committee
1998-2002 Member, AdHoc Committee on Business Courts
1994-1995 Chair, Banking Law Section
1985-Present Member, Corporate and Business Law and Public Utility Law Sections
Trustee, Mercer County Bar Foundation; 2004 Chair, Kids Instructed in Tolerance Comm.
Member, NJ Supreme Court Committee Image Processing – Attorney Trust Accounts
Director, New Jersey Lawyer-; Member Special Audit and Publisher Search Committee
President, 1991-1994; Trustee, 1994-1995, 1998-2004, Executive Women of New Jersey
Member, Department of Banking Transition Team and Energy Transition team
Examples of Speeches Presenting Papers
NJCU School of Business “Waterfront Development in the 21st Century”.
Moderator New Jersey Women Lawyers “Meet the Party Leaders Program”
Mercer Bar Association “Land Use Issues and Regulatory Issues Associated with Energy Law”
Moderator, Princeton Junction Town Hall Meeting regarding 45-acre solar power plant
Moderator, Rutgers Law School “Drill Baby Drill,” panel included Shell Oil CEO, lawyers and engineers
New Jersey Technology Council “What’s Next in Federal Energy Policy. A discussion about the American Power Act.”
Rutgers Law School “New Jersey’s Commitment to Renewable Energy: The Law and Policy of Promoting Clean Energy.”
NARUC meeting “LNG Siting and State’s Rights under the Coastal Zone Management Act”
Platts Northeast Power Markets Forum, Washington DC
National Association of Regulatory Commissioners Winter Meeting “Mergers and Acquisitions”
Electricity Utility Consultants, Inc. (EUCI) “Public Participation in Transmission Siting,” San Diego, Ca
Women in Power Forum “Transmission Siting”
Clean Energy Leadership Conference “Clean Energy Strategies to Reduce your Carbon Footprint”
National Association of Regulatory Commissioners Meeting “Futures Derivatives, Regulation and Markets”
National Association of Regulatory Commissioners Meeting “ The Energy Funds Market: A Useful Tool in an Uncertain Energy Price Environment”
National Association of Regulatory Commissioners “Energy Compliance Function,” Program Organizer
Mid-Atlantic Utility Commissioners Dialogue with the Investment Community, NYC
Clean Energy Leadership Conference Moderator “Investment Tax Credits”
Prudential Business Ethics Centr, NJ Corporate Counsel Asso. et al. Panelists with Alfred C. Koeppe, President PSEG; Hon. Christopher Christie, US Attorney for NJ. "Combating Corporate Fraud in America"
NJ Corporate Counsel Assoc. “Corporate Boardroom: Risks & Rewards”
NJ League of Community and Savings Banks, Director and Officer Conference-Director Liability Panel
ICLE Business Law Symposium "Director Selection, Fiduciary Duty and Liability"
Health and Hospital Law Section Panelist "Conversion, Access to Capital and Bankruptcy Issues for Distressed Healthcare Entities
Health and Hospital Law Section moderator “Sales of Charitable Assets"
American Health Lawyers Association “Liability Issues in Managed Care”