The Energy Regulation and Markets Review - Stikeman Elliott

About the Authors
and 2007. She has also been recognised in the area of climate change by Best Lawyers
International: Australia 2010 and 2011.
A member of the Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association and the
Resources, Environment and Energy Law Committee of the Australian Law Council,
Ms Gilligan regularly presents conference papers and lectures on legal issues in energy
and climate change.
Brad Grant
Stikeman Elliott LLP
Brad Grant is a partner in Stikeman Elliott’s commercial energy group in Calgary, whose
practice focuses on commercial arrangements, primarily in the petroleum and natural gas
and power sectors. Mr Grant’s clients include petroleum and natural gas producers and
midstream companies, energy trading companies, power generation and transmission
companies, chemical companies and infrastructure companies. He is also actively
involved in the firm’s emissions trading and climate change group.
Mr Grant advises clients on matters including private share and asset purchases and
sales, joint venture arrangements, supply contracts, service contracts, operating contracts,
transportation and storage contracts, trading contracts, engineering, procurement and
construction contracts and numerous other transactional matters. A significant portion
of his practice involves advising on derivatives and derivative-related matters. He is listed
and recognised by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011 as a leading practitioner
in the area of derivatives. Mr Grant is a member of the Law Society of Alberta and the
Calgary and Canadian Bar Associations. He is also vice chair for Inn from the Cold in
Calgary.
Guenther Grassl
Schoenherr Attorneys at Law
Guenther Grassl is an associate in Schoenherr’s regulatory practice group. Prior to that he
worked for serveral years for the Austrian Chamber of Commerce as a policy adviser in
the field of environment and energy politics. During that period he was actively involved
in the further development of the environmental law of Austria and the European
Union. He also participated in several stakeholder forums for WKO. In his professional
work he puts a special focus on the legal provisions regarding the licensing of industrial
installations. Dr Grassl holds a master and a doctor of laws degree from the University of
Vienna (Dr iur 2011, Mag iur 2003). He wrote his dissertation on the implementation
of the ‘non-deterioration-clause’ in clean air and clean water provisions of the European
Union in Austrian law.
Shamilah Grimwood
White & Case LLP (South Africa)
Shamilah Grimwood is a partner at White & Case and a member of the firm’s energy,
infrastructure and project finance group and is a member of both the South African
and New York bar associations. She is recognised as a leading lawyer in the areas of
project and infrastructure finance in the power sector and public private partnerships.
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