Jenna McGrath

Practice Areas

Jenna McGrath is Of Counsel in the Corporate practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Ms. McGrath is an experienced energy regulatory, litigation, and transactional attorney who assists clients in complex and technical energy industry matters, including cost-of-service ratemaking, RTO/ISO market rules, generator interconnection, transmission development and competitive transmission processes, incentive rates, cybersecurity, NERC compliance, and energy market behavior investigations. Ms. McGrath regularly handles deal and financing diligence for utilities, developers, large industrial energy users (e.g., data centers and mining operations), investors, lenders, and private equity. Her representations include extensive work with generation and transmission (G&T) and distribution electric cooperatives; including RTO integration, PURPA implementation, and contested proceedings before FERC and state public utility Commissions.

Ms. McGrath is experienced in emerging issues and non-traditional business models including electric storage, transmission-only electric utilities (transcos), fuel cells, microgrids, and distributed energy resources.

Personal

Ms. McGrath received her J.D. in 2014 from the Boston University School of Law, where she was the president of the Energy and Environmental Law Society and a participant in BU's Asylum and Human Rights clinic. She received her B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida.