Former U.S. Department of Interior Senior Executive Vincent DeVito Joins Eckert Seamans’ Washington, D.C. Office
January 6, 2025
National law firm Eckert Seamans welcomes Vincent DeVito as Special Counsel in the firm’s Energy, Utilities & Telecom practice group. DeVito joins the firm’s Washington, D.C. office having previously served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at a private energy company and Counselor to the Secretary for Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior.
“We are pleased to have Vincent bring his experience in the energy and transactional sectors to Eckert Seamans,” said Dan Clearfield, Co-Chair of the firm’s Energy, Utilities & Telecom practice group. “Vincent’s extensive knowledge of national energy policy and regulatory affairs will be a welcomed asset to many of our clients across the country, as well as the talented attorneys we have in the practice group across the firm.”
DeVito has worked with utilities, corporations, investors, and entrepreneurs in the energy, power generation, and technology sectors in the United States and abroad. He is adroit at managing legal affairs and being a key transactional and commercial negotiator for domestic and international clients. As Counselor to the Secretary for Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Interior from 2017-18, DeVito served in a first-of-its-kind appointment where he directed policy and coordinated the management and operation of the Department of Interior’s vast energy portfolio, which includes oil, gas, coal, hydroelectric, wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. In this capacity, he worked directly with the Executive Office of the President and all energy and environment related federal agencies on behalf of the Secretary, as well as with Congress, industry stakeholders, investors, developers, non-governmental, organizations, and state government officials.
DeVito also previously served in senior management roles at the U.S. Department of Energy and within state energy regulatory offices, as well as a Partner and Of Counsel at Boston and New York-based law firms. He currently serves as a member of corporate boards and will maintain those strategic positions while at Eckert Seamans.
Drew Derco, Member-In-Charge of the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, commented: “Vincent is a trusted advisor on complex corporate and regulatory matters and he is an important addition to our growing Washington, D.C. office.”
Lawyers in Eckert Seamans’ Energy, Utilities & Telecom practice counsel the various segments of the energy and natural resources industries on local, state, federal, and international regulatory matters, as well as commercial and transactional, antitrust, intellectual property, labor and employment, environmental and complex litigation matters.