Ms. Kuwaye specializes in environmental and natural resource law, land use, real estate development, telecommunications law, public utilities, and administrative law. Her practice includes environmental litigation and regulatory compliance with federal and state laws and regulations. In the public utilities area, Ms. Kuwaye has extensive experience in the regulatory aspects of merger, acquisition and restructuring transactions in both the electric and telecommunications industries. In this regard, she has advised participants in a number of utility mergers. Ms. Kuwaye recently represented a $16 billion dollar renewable energy company in one of Hawaii's largest energy dockets before the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission. She has also has worked on principal market rate authority and transmission cases at the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission which have resulted in the establishment of new policies.