Eric Gunning
Eric Gunning
Denver
Colorado (CO)
Business/Corporate
Utilities
Mergers & Acquisitions
Profile
Eric Gunning is an associate in the firm’s smart grid and corporate and transaction practices. His smart grid practice focuses on providing policy and strategy advice related to the deployment of smart grid technologies including federal and state regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property and interoperability standards issues.
His experience includes representing both public and private energy, communications and technologies companies in structuring and negotiating sourcing and procurement transactions; joint product development relationships; and complex intellectual property licensing and other strategic alliance arrangements.
Selected To
Colorado Rising Stars 2012
Colorado Rising Stars 2011
Colorado Rising Stars 2010
About Eric Gunning
Admitted: 2005, Colorado
Professional Webpage: www.wbklaw.com/Our_team/Eric_Gunning
Honors and Awards:
- A member of the Order of the Coif, University School of Law , Order of the Coif, University of Colorado School of Law, 2005
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member, Advisory Board, Silicon Flatirons Telecommunications Program and Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, University of Colorado School of Law.
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Last year witnessed “the smart grid” going from an arcane concept about updating the electric distribution system to a full-fledged public policy priority. The Obama Administration views the deployment of smart grid technologies as a linchpin to achieving its new energy economy objectives. These goals include: lowering energy costs for consumers, achieving energy independence, promoting clean and green technologies, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To that end, Congress allocated approximately $4 billion in stimulus grants and loans to smart grid deployments and tasked the National Institute for Standards and Technology (“NIST”) to develop smart grid interoperability standards..., The Opportunity and Peril of Smart Grid, Engage - The Journal of the Federalist Society's Practice Groups, Smart Grid, 2010
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- Law Clerk to former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell, focusing on wireless communications regulation and policy.
Educational Background:
- Order of the Coif
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