EXHIBIT
1-B
Charles
N. Atkins
Mr. Atkins has more than 30
years of experience in capital markets investment banking, law and government.
During his 22 years at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Atkins focused on corporate
structured finance and recapitalizations in the power utility sector and other
sectors for corporate and financial sponsor clients. At Morgan Stanley, Mr.
Atkins was the industry’s leading utility securitization banker, advising and
structuring 19 transactions totaling more than $14 billion for companies including
American Electric Power Co., Constellation Energy Group, Inc. and its
subsidiary Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), Energy Future Holdings, Entergy
Corporation, FirstEnergy Corporation, PG&E Corporation and PPL Corporation.
In connection with his utility banking
assignments, Mr. Atkins has testified extensively as an expert witness before
utility regulatory commissions on multiple occasions in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Maryland, Texas and West Virginia. Mr. Atkins led the corporate reorganization
of Constellation Energy in connection with the $4.5 billion nuclear joint
venture with Electricite de France SA, uplifting BGE’s debt ratings, removing
BGE’s debt from Constellation’s credit ratios and facilitating regulatory
approval of the joint venture. A similar corporate reorganization transaction
led by Mr. Atkins for PPL was awarded “North American Securitization Deal of
the Year” by International Financing Review. Four other transactions structured
by Mr. Atkins received similar “Deal of the Year” awards. Mr. Atkins has also been
awarded 3 U.S. patents for innovative financing structures he developed. Prior
to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Atkins was a structured finance banker for governmental
and government-sponsored entities, at Lehman Brothers Inc. and E.F. Hutton Inc.
The legal and governmental experience of Mr. Atkins includes practicing
corporate law at the Washington, D.C. office of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and
Feld, serving as Associate Assistant to the President in the Carter
Administration and Legislative Counsel to United States Senator David L. Boren
(D-OK). Mr. Atkins served on the
Presidential Transition Committee for the first Clinton Administration, and
also was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Advisory Committee of
the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
Mr. Atkins earned a Juris
Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard
University (Honors Program, Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa). Mr. Atkins is
a member of the District of Columbia Bar.
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