Gregory Lawrence

Practice Areas

Energy & Natural Resources

Litigation

Corporate

White Collar Defense & Special Investigations

Banking & Financial Services

Federal Regulatory & Administrative Law

Energy Litigation

Energy Transactions

Renewable Energy

Energy Project Finance & Development

Electric Power & Utility Regulation

Career

Gregory K. Lawrence focuses his practice on the electricity and natural gas industries. He is experienced appearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and multiple state utility commissions regarding regulatory proceedings, compliance and enforcement, capacity and energy market structure, transactions and negotiations, asset transfers, and governmental affairs. Greg’s clients include funds and financial institutions, marketers, traders, renewable and other project developers, energy storage and demand response assets, municipal and investor-owned utilities, and large energy consumers.

Recognized as a leading energy and electricity lawyer by Chambers USA, Greg is a frequent speaker at energy industry conferences and a contributor to a wide range of publications, including The Electricity Journal, Electric Light & Power, Energy Risk, Bloomberg Law Reports, Project Finance International, Corporate Counsel, Windpower Engineering, and EnergyLaw 360. He also authored a quarterly column in Electric Energy T&D Magazine and "Rationalizing Supply with Demand: Electricity Demand Response in U.S. Wholesale Electricity Markets," a book chapter in U.S. Law and Taxation.

In addition, Greg has taught energy seminars at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School, Cornell Law School, and Syracuse University. Greg has presented at The Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Electricity Policy Group, regarding electricity market structure as well as manipulation legal issues.

Concentrations:

Energy regulation

Energy litigation

Energy and commodities

Renewables

Swap regulation

White collar defense and investigations

Global energy and infrastructure

Professional Memberships

-Member, Energy Bar Association; Member, Membership Committee, 2016-2019; Board Member, Foundation of the Energy Law Journal, 2017-2019; Chair, Electricity Committee, 2016; Vice-chair, Electricity Committee, 2015.

-Judge, MassChallenge Boston 2016 Start-up Accelerator Program

Publications

Listed, Chambers Global, Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation), 2022

Listed, Chambers USA, 2012-2022

Personal

J.D., New England School of Law, 1991

B.A., Trinity College, 1988