Scott Le Bouef is a member of the Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP's Commodities and Derivatives Group. Mr. Le Bouef represents clients in a wide variety of commodities and derivatives transactions, with a focus on energy commodities. He advises investment banks, brokers, energy and commodity trading houses, hedge funds, producers, suppliers and end-users on a wide range of commodities and derivatives transactions and related regulatory matters. He has extensive experience with the structuring and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, intermediation arrangements, physically and financially-settled hedge transactions, energy management agreements, tolling agreements, supply and off-take-agreements, transportation agreements and storage agreements whether such agreements are entered into on a stand-alone basis or in the context of project acquisitions or project development. Mr. Le Bouef's experience also includes structuring and negotiating industry standard master agreements including the ISDA, EEI and NAESB.In addition to transactional matters, Mr. Le Bouef also counsels clients with respect to the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act and related regulations on their commodities and trading businesses, including the application of the end-user exception to clearing, the analysis of swap dealing activities and the negotiation of cleared derivative execution agreements and the ISDA Dodd-Frank Protocols.