Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental

Bruce Grabow is a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm's Washington, D.C. office.

Bruce represents independent power developers and owners and merchant generators, electric power marketers, merchant electric transmission companies, electric utility companies, investment and private equity funds and wholesale and retail customers in regulatory compliance and transactional matters pertaining to the electric energy industry. His practice focuses on matters regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) pursuant to the Federal Power Act (FPA), Energy Policy Act of 2005, including the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 (PUHCA) and Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).

Bruce advises clients on:

Generation interconnection throughout the Nation Reactive power compensation Regional transmission organization (RTO)/independent system operator (ISO) market tariff rules and policy Mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations Market-based and cost-based power sales Transmission infrastructure development Transmission rate recovery Negotiation of interconnection, transmission, operation and maintenance agreements Exempt wholesale generator and qualifying facility status Rulemaking proceedings Affiliate transactions Securities issuances Standards of conduct compliance