Jenna McGrath

Jenna McGrath is a partner in the Washington, DC office of Milbank LLP and a member of the firm’s Global Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group.

Ms. McGrath focuses her practice on both transactional and litigation work in the energy regulatory space. She advises developers, lenders, private equity, utilities and large industrial electricity customers (e.g., data centers and mining operations) on laws and regulations governing development of electric generation and transmission projects, and revenues for wholesale and retail electricity and transmission services. She regularly appears before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state public utility commissions and courts in matters concerning regulatory compliance, project development and ratemaking, generator interconnection, RTO/ISO market rules and energy market behavior investigations. Her prior representations include extensive work with transmission and generation project developers, electric cooperative utilities and private equity investments in the domestic energy space. Ms. McGrath is experienced in emerging technologies and non-traditional business models, including merchant transmission, distributed generation and demand response aggregation, microgrids, all scales of electric storage and fuel cells.

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.