Christopher R Jones

Chris is the managing partner of the Washington, D.C. office and leads the firm’s 20+ member federal energy practice. Chris represents clients in the energy industry before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and federal courts.

Chris has a wide-ranging energy practice. He represents electric utilities, holding companies, investors, and other market participants on matters relating to federal regulation of the nation’s electricity system. Chris has particular experience in energy market design, competition-related issues related to mergers and acquisitions, and FERC’s market-based rate program. In addition, Chris works on transmission-related issues such as transmission rate cases, reactive power compensation, generator interconnections, affiliate transactions, OATT compliance and Standards of Conduct, as well as FERC compliance and audit defense matters.

Chris also has considerable appellate experience, which includes successfully having briefed and argued consequential energy law cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and elsewhere.