Dan Frank provides strategic advice and hands-on guidance to electric industry clients in complex regulatory and compliance matters and energy transactions.
He guides electric industry clients in compliance and regulatory matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and other governmental agencies. He also advises clients on cybersecurity and data protection matters. His clients include electric cooperatives and other electric utilities, transmission companies, energy trading companies, generators, and end users.
Before FERC, Dan regularly counsels clients on market access requirements, filing and reporting obligations, transmission regulatory matters, and transaction approvals.
In NERC compliance matters, Dan helps clients respond to audits, prepares delegation agreements, and advises on compliance with NERC’s cybersecurity (critical infrastructure protection) and other reliability standards.
He counsels transmission owners and other market participants on transmission access, pricing, and cost allocation issues. Dan drafts and negotiates power sales, interconnection and transmission service agreements, and he advises clients in disputes over power transactions and transmission matters. He also assists clients in preparing for and responding to data breaches and other cyber incidents.
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- Advising a developer of direct current interconnection and associated electric facilities, which will allow for an asynchronous interconnection between the electric grid in southern Arizona and the electric grid in the northwest region of Mexico.
- Advising a developer of approximate 370-mile multi-state electric transmission merchant project.
- Advised a multinational energy transportation company in a cross-border deal in connection with its divestment of a large transmission line in the West through the sale of Canadian and US entities owning relevant portions of the transmission line.
- Served as underwriters' counsel to Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the offering and issuance of more than $113 million in bonds (Seminole Electric Cooperative Inc. Project).
- Advised Innergex Renewable Energy Inc. on all US legal aspects of its acquisition of Alterra Power Corp., a Canadian renewable energy company with assets in Canada, the US, Iceland, Chile and Italy.
- EBA Primer Series – An Introduction to the Federal Regulation of the Natural Gas Industry, November 28-29, 2018
- Webcast: Cybersecurity considerations for electric cooperatives, September 25, 2018
- An Electric Cooperative Bar Association (ECBA) Webcast: An Intro to GDPR — How the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation may impact electric cooperatives, presented by Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP, June 13, 2018
- EBA Primer Series – Electric Industry Technology for Lawyers, February 15-16, 2018
- EBA Primer Series – Electric Reliability, January 19-20, 2018
- Managing a Cyber Attack: An Interactive Simulation, October 16, 2014
- Natural Gas Transactions, October 9, 2012, 2012 Webinar Series: Electric Cooperative Issues
- NRECA G&T Legal Seminar, November 11-12, 2004
- Recognized by Chambers USA: Guide to Leading Business Lawyers in the area of electricity regulation and litigation (2011-2025)
- Recognized as "Lawyer of the Year" by The Best Lawyers in America in the area of energy regulatory law (2025)
- Recognized by The Legal 500 United States in the areas of energy: regulatory (2015-2016); energy regulatory: conventional power (2017, 2019-2022) and energy regulatory: electric power (2023-2025)
- Named to Best Lawyers in the area of energy law (2025-2026) and energy regulatory law (2025-2026)
- Recognized by Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers in the area of electricity regulation and litigation (2015-2026)
- Named to the inaugural Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Energy Lawyers (2023)
- Energy Bar Association, Board of Directors (2012-2015), Assistant Treasurer (2022-2024), Energy Law Academy Coordinator (2015-2023)
- Member, Electricity and Reliability Committees / Councils, Energy Bar Association
- Member, Electricity Committee, Infrastructure and Regulated Industries Section, American Bar Association
- Charter Member, Electric Cooperative Bar Association
- Secretary (2011-2023), Trustee (1995–2011), The Churchill Fund
- Member, The Federalist Society
- Scoutmaster, Boy Scout Troop 2535 (2018-2023)
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
Honorable Danny J. Boggs, U.S. Court of Appeals - Sixth Circuit.
- J.D., University of Chicago Law School,
Senior Comment Editor, The University of Chicago Legal Forum, Senior Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy
- B.A., magna cum laude, University of Washington,
Phi Beta Kappa