GRACE DICKSON GERBAS focuses her practice on energy-related matters, counseling energy industry clients on regulatory and transactional issues. She has significant experience negotiating and structuring agreements for long-term natural gas, solar, and wind offtake arrangements; renewable energy credit (REC) purchases; and revenue structures for projects across major U.S. power markets. Grace also regularly advises on and negotiates power purchase arrangements in connection with data centers, addressing the unique reliability and risk considerations critical to data center operations.
Grace works with clients on complex trading, hedging, and collateral arrangements involving electricity, environmental attributes, carbon credits, natural gas, and other commodities. In addition, she provides guidance on critical project contracts, including energy management and operations and maintenance agreements. She further advises utilities, developers, and financial institutions on acquisitions and compliance, and has represented electric utilities before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and state public utility commissions. By integrating regulatory insight with deal execution, she helps clients anticipate risks, align with evolving policy, and achieve their business objectives efficiently.
Grace earned her J.D. from Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where she was the editor in chief of the SMU Science and Technology Law Review. Prior to attending law school, she was a field representative for the Office of U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (ND). After graduation, Grace served as a term law clerk for Magistrate Judge Charles S. Miller, Jr. for the U.S. District of North Dakota. Prior to joining Sidley, she was an energy associate at another international law firm.