Michael A. Gruin

Michael is Chair of Stevens & Lee’s Energy and Utilities Practice Group.

Michael provides strategic counsel to companies across multiple industries on their market entry, regulatory compliance, growth and expansion. His clients include electricity and natural gas suppliers, renewable energy developers, national and regional telecommunications providers, electric distribution companies, water and wastewater companies and large utility consumers. He advises on a wide range of legal and utility regulatory matters, including licensing, mergers and acquisitions, financing transactions, right-of-way access issues, distribution grid interconnections, wholesale supply agreements, sales and marketing compliance, customer privacy issues, advanced metering infrastructure, consumer complaints, transfers of control and public utility commission rulemakings and investigations.

Michael is also an experienced administrative litigator who represents clients in complex regulatory proceedings before various state public utility commissions. He has extensive experience in representing companies before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and has also assisted clients in matters before the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities, Maryland Public Service Commission, Delaware Public Service Commission, Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Illinois Commerce Commission and Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

Affiliations

• Dauphin County Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Institute for Professionals in Taxation
• Federal Communications Bar Association

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law, J.D.
• The Pennsylvania State University, B.S., with high distinction

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey

Court Admissions

• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit