Ben Busboom is a forward-thinking corporate and transactional attorney who serves as the chair of Womble Bond Dickinson’s renewable energy group. With a focus on the energy transition, Ben supports companies and investors navigating complex energy, natural resource, supply chain, and environmental matters. His extensive experience within project permitting, real property, engineering/construction, material supply, and offtake business sectors underscores his deep understanding of the interconnectedness of the ever-evolving energy industry.
Ben's practice is centered on structuring and negotiating transactions across a spectrum of innovative and traditional energy matters, including:
• Renewable energy projects
• Battery energy storage systems (BESS)
• District energy solutions and microgrids
• Behind-the-meter solutions and projects
• Critical mineral and raw material offtake and processing
• Supply chain management
• Oil and gas operations
• Mining ventures
• Nuclear energy initiatives
• Data center development
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture, transport, sequestration, and tax incentives
• Biofuels, focusing on ethanol and renewable natural gas
• Environmental diligence and ownership/development of contaminated or environmentally sensitive areas and/or projects
Drawing on more than 15 years of experience in the environmental, engineering, and energy industries, Ben also provides strategic counsel on general operational, regulatory, and developmental matters, including environmental diligence, risk mitigation, permitting, compliance, and resolving administrative disputes or enforcement actions.
Representative Experience
Any result the lawyer or law firm may have achieved on behalf of clients in other matters does not necessarily indicate similar results can be obtained for other clients.
- Advised the energy and electrification arm of a major automotive manufacturer on a multi-year framework agreement and related project arrangements with leading North American power developers for the deployment of up to 20 GWh of utility-scale battery storage across the United States, leading accelerated, multi-party negotiations and structuring scalable procurement, delivery, pricing, and performance frameworks to support long-term portfolio growth, strategic partnerships, and grid-scale energy infrastructure investment.
- Advised a major automotive manufacturer on international and domestic transactions relating to the acquisition of lithium and other battery metals.
- Advised an international gold company on operational matters, including the acquisition of a gold mine in Nevada.
- Formed a renewable natural gas startup company and advised the client on proposed joint ventures, financing, investment opportunities, and general corporate matters.
- Advised international and domestic clients on the formation of ventures relating to the purchase and sale of power and physical infrastructure necessary for cryptocurrency mining projects.
- Acted as primary counsel for a Blackrock-backed developer of carbon capture and sequestration joint ventures with a focus on corporate, real estate, environmental, and tax aspects of the projects.
- Advised a Midwestern independent energy company on the construction and operation of solar facilities in areas with active oil, gas, and mineral development.
- Performed environmental, regulatory, and land use diligence for renewable energy and wireless telecommunications projects nationwide.
- Formed and advised companies designed to consolidate agricultural assets and negotiated related service and management contracts.
- Negotiated agreements, permits, penalties, and settlements with federal and state administrative agencies.
- Advised clients on environmental liability and structuring acquisitions, divestitures, purchases, and sales of environmentally sensitive assets/interests.
- Served as primary contact counsel for a national land management client managing over 140,000 properties nationwide (agricultural, land use, and mineral matters).
Honors & Awards
- Selected to Great Plains Super Lawyers: Rising Stars, 2018-2021
- Recognized by Omaha Magazine as a “Top Lawyer in Omaha,” 2021
- Selected to Kansas & Missouri Super Lawyers: Rising Stars, 2017
Professional & Civic Engagement
- Foundation for Natural Resource and Energy Law, Trustees Council, Representative for the Nebraska State Bar Association, 2024-2025
- Nebraska State Bar Association, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section; Former Secretary/Treasurer (2018) and Chair (2019)
Thought Leadership
Publications
- Benjamin Busboom, “Expanding the US Transmission Grid: Permitting, Siting, and Land Rights Challenges,” Womble Bond Dickinson, Feb. 19, 2026.
- Benjamin Busboom, Belton T. Zeigler & Trevor Tomlinson, “Powering Progress: Navigating the Intricacies of On-Site Nuclear Generation,” Womble Bond Dickinson, Feb. 13, 2025.
- Benjamin Busboom, Noah Zedek & Francisco Balduzzi, “Basics of an Offtake Agreement: Exploring Basic Terms and Underlying Consideration of a Typical Offtake Agreement,” 71 Natural Resources & Energy Law Institute 20-1 (2025).
- Program Co-Chair, The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law Special Institute on behind-the-meter power supply solutions, addressing legal, regulatory, project development, and market issues arising from behind-the-meter energy projects, data center power demand, battery storage, on-site generation, and related infrastructure
