Overview

Kevin’s practice focuses on regulatory and market design matters for electric sector clients. Kevin’s practice focuses on the electric sector, with an emphasis on competitive wholesale markets. Kevin has served as counsel to independent system operators (ISOs) and regional transmission organizations (RTOs), electric utilities, independent power producers, project developers, energy service companies (ESCOs), and government entities on the design and operation of wholesale electricity markets, the development of energy infrastructure, and related commercial relationships and transactions.

Experience

  • Regularly advises on the design and operation of wholesale markets for energy, installed capacity, ancillary services, and transmission services, including various regulatory, market design, finance, and corporate and stakeholder governance matters.

  • Represents ISOs and RTOs in federal and state regulatory proceedings, including matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and other federal and state agencies.

  • Represents ISOs and RTOs in various federal and state litigation, arbitration, and mediation proceedings involving the administration of market rules, calculation of market rates, disputed financial settlements, market power monitoring and mitigation, and generation siting.

  • Advises clients on matters related to physical and cyber security, including preparedness and risk management, SAFETY Act protection, regulatory compliance, incident response, and stakeholder relations.

  • Advises clients in connection with various audits and investigations by FERC, NERC, and other entities.

  • Represented the entity responsible for administering the network used by North American operators of the bulk electric system to exchange critical operating reliability data.

  • Advises on a wide range of ISO and RTO transmission system planning and interconnection matters.

  • Advises on the development and administration of ISO and RTO counterparty credit risk management policies and practices.

  • Advised clients regarding FERC-CFTC jurisdictional issues arising in connection with the Dodd-Frank Act.

  • Advised an ISO on a large smart grid development project, including transaction structure, contractual issues, regulatory implications, and implementation considerations to enable public-private, multi-party investment in new smart grid technologies.

  • Advised an ISO on a series of proposed, multi-party transmission system upgrade and expansion projects.

Accolades

Honors & Recognitions

  • Recommended for Energy Regulation: Electric Power, Legal 500 United States, 2019-2024

Affiliations

Professional

  • Member, The Federalist Society, Administrative Law & Regulation; International & National Security Law
  • Member, Energy Bar Association
  • Vice Chair, Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section and Chair, Infrastructure Security Committee, American Bar Association
  • Member, New York State Bar Association
  • Member, Virginia State Bar, Administrative Law Section, Business Law Section, International Practice Section

Insights

Events & Speaking Engagements

  • June 8, 2023
    Event
    Moderator
    Cybersecurity Challenges for Critical Infrastructure, Administrative Law Section of the Virginia State Bar, Hunton Andrews Kurth CLE Event
  • December 9, 2021
    Event
    Speaker
    Practical Tips for Navigating Offshore Wind Development, Hunton Andrews Kurth Webinar
  • April 7, 2021
    Event
    Speaker
    Physical and Cyber Security Threats to Communications, Energy and Utilities Infrastructure: 2021 Update for Legal Advisors, American Bar Association
  • June 29, 2020
    Event
  • June 9, 2020
    Event
    Moderator & Speaker
    Here Today But Not Gone Tomorrow – Medical and Legal Considerations to Get Back to Work During the Ongoing Pandemic, Energy Bar Association
  • April 9, 2020
    Event
    Speaker
    Pandemic Response – Covid-19 for Utilities Webinar, EUCI
  • April 7, 2020
    Event
  • October 28, 2019
    Event
  • October 25, 2019
    Event
  • March 30, 2019
    Event
    Speaker
    Infrastructure Security – Spring Update, ABA Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, 2019 Spring Council Meeting
  • March 26, 2019
    Event
    Speaker
    Cybersecurity Best Practices – Preparation and Incident Response, Energy Bar Association 2019 Southern Chapter Spring Conference
  • February 21, 2019
    Event
    Speaker
    Cybersecurity in the Energy Sector – An Overview of Threats and Legal Developments, Connected Plant Conference
  • November 14, 2018
    Event
  • October 12, 2018
    Event
    Speaker
    Infrastructure Security – Fall Update, ABA Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, 2018 Fall Council Meeting
  • October 8, 2018
    Event
    Speaker
    Managing Cyber Risk from a Legal Perspective, APPA Legal & Regulatory Conference
  • May 17-18, 2018
    Event
    Moderator
    In Search of Grid Resilience: What Does It Mean and How Is It Priced?, 36th Annual National Regulatory Conference
  • February 9, 2018
    Event
    Speaker
    Cyber Attack! What To Do Next, Tennessee Valley Public Power Association, 2018 Legal Conference
  • October 13, 2017
    Event
    Speaker
    Infrastructure Security – Fall Update, ABA Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, 2017 Fall Council Meeting
  • October 9, 2017
    Event
    Panelist
    Cyber Security Preparedness and Supply Chain Risk Management in the Electric Sector, APPA Legal & Regulatory Conference
  • January 19, 2017
    Event
  • January 12, 2017
    Event
    Moderator
    Cybersecurity in Regulated Industries, ABA Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, CLE Webinar
  • October 21, 2016
    Event
    Panelist
    Cybersecurity in Regulated Industries: Risk Management, Incident Response, and Regulatory Developments, ABA Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, 2016 Fall Council Meeting
  • May 20, 2016
    Event
    Panelist
    Reforming the Energy Vision – the Distributed System Operator and the New York REV Initiative, Thirty Fourth National Regulatory Conference
  • March 17, 2016
    Event
    Panelist
    Webinar - Energy Sector Security: Legislative & Regulatory Update
  • December 8, 2015
    Event
    Panelist
    Strategies to Thwart Insider Threats, Charlottesville Business Innovation Council

Blog Posts

News

Education

JD, University of Tennessee College of Law, magna cum laude, 1999

MA, Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy, Patterson School, University of Kentucky, 1997

BA, University of Tennessee, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1995

Admissions

New York

Virginia

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