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Bruce Grabow

Work Department
Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental
Position
Bruce Grabow is a partner in the Real Estate, Energy, Land Use & Environmental Practice Group in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Bruce represents independent power developers and owners and merchant generators, electric power marketers, merchant electric transmission companies, electric utility companies, investment and private equity funds and wholesale and retail customers in regulatory compliance and transactional matters pertaining to the electric energy industry. His practice focuses on matters regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) pursuant to the Federal Power Act (FPA), Energy Policy Act of 2005, including the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005 (PUHCA) and Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA).
Bruce advises clients on:
- Generation interconnection throughout the Nation
- Reactive power compensation
- Regional transmission organization (RTO)/independent system operator (ISO) market tariff rules and policy
- Mergers, acquisitions and corporate reorganizations
- Market-based and cost-based power sales
- Transmission infrastructure development
- Transmission rate recovery
- Negotiation of interconnection, transmission, operation and maintenance agreements
- Exempt wholesale generator and qualifying facility status
- Rulemaking proceedings
- Affiliate transactions
- Securities issuances
- Standards of conduct compliance
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Land use/zoning
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP‘s real estate, energy, land use, & environmental team helps developers, investors, and owners cross California’s regulatory waters and develop projects in sectors as diverse as energy, hospitality, and healthcare. The department is led by San Francisco’s Keith Garner, who assists clients with a scope of issues from land use planning and entitlement to associated litigation; and San Diego’s Michael Leake, who fields a broad real estate practice representing commercial and industrial owners and tenants. In New York, Jodi Stein and Eva Schneider advise developers on obtaining discretionary land use approvals as well as compliance throughout the project lifecycle. San Francisco’s Jennifer Renk advises her clients on the environmental hurdles implicit in the Californian development process; San Diego’s Jeffrey Forrest litigates similar issues. Lorie Soares Lazarus and Peter David Ballance joined the practice in late 2023 while Jennifer Brough, Douglas Yeager, Bruce Grabow, and Jeffrey Smith joined in 2024.
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Firm Rankings
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Health insurers
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Real estate finance