Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Reena is Counsel with an energy law practice focusing on electricity markets, regulation and compliance. Her practice includes acting for commercial and industrial loads, utilities, generators, transmitters, distributors, demand response aggregators, retailers and gas marketers. She provides strategic regulatory advice and direction to shareholders, acquirers, investors and developers of a variety of power assets including energy storage, gas, hydrogen, wind, solar, biomass and nuclear.

Reena is also a litigator. When clients require legal representation before energy tribunals, she works diligently to achieve the best outcome. She has appeared before the Ontario Energy Board, the Alberta Utilities Commission, the Canada Energy Regulator and all levels of courts in Ontario. Reena also regularly represents market participants in electricity market rule and tariff compliance investigations and reliability standards audits.

Ontario, 2005

Reena was formerly a lawyer with Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), including roles in Regulatory Affairs, Market Assessment and Compliance, and Senior Advisor to the CEO.

Reena has appeared before various provincial tribunals, including energy regulatory tribunals in Ontario and Alberta, and all levels of court in Ontario.

Reena serves as a roster adjudicator for the Electrical Safety Authority, the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and the electricity transmission dispute resolution panel established under Annex 309 of the Canadian Free Trade Agreement.

Reena is a Legal Committee Advisory Member for Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE), a former Steering Committee Member of Women in Energy Canada (WIECAN), and a member of the Electricity Subcommittee of the Energy Bar Association.

Reena co-teaches The Law and Economics of Electricity Markets at Osgoode Hall Law School.