Thomas Gross
Partner

Thomas Gross is an attorney in Washington, DC, with over 30 years of experience focused on complex transactions and regulations, both domestic and international with an emphasis on energy projects. His transactional background includes project-financing deals in the $250 million to $500 million range and work with financial institutions to obtain loan approvals and ratings from S&P and other institutions.

He served as an attorney and Deputy Assistant General Counsel at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Department of Energy supervising up to 40 attorneys on a number of politically and legally sensitive energy matters. He helped formulate and draft cutting edge energy rules and regulations that reshaped the electric and natural gas industry as it exists today, allowing flexibility in supply sources and transmission for large end users such as data centers.

He has extensive international experience working with foreign governments on legal and regulatory reform designed to promote investment capital, including analyzing and drafting new energy laws for countries such as Indonesia, Bulgaria, and the Dominican Republic. He also has significant experience with blockchain and cryptocurrencies, including review of ICO and STO documentation and regulatory approvals.

Thomas was trained as a physicist and holds a graduate MS from Stanford University, where he worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, Livermore Labs, Los Alamos Labs, and in Silicon Valley in quantum physics. That scientific background informs his approach to technically sophisticated and highly regulated matters.

His work has included serving as General Counsel for an international company and advising on corporate governance, distributed ledger security, FCPA issues, intellectual property rights related to blockchain, licensing, contracts, securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions.