Grabel, Meghan H.
Meghan heads the firm’s Energy, Water, and Utility Law practice and is a renowned industry leader in the electric, renewable energy, natural gas, water, telecommunications, and other innovative technologies sectors. Her clients value the unique blend of her legal acumen with the substantive utility business knowledge that she developed serving for years as both Associate General Counsel of Regulatory and then as head of the revenue requirement and rate design departments for Arizona’s largest investor-owned electric utility.
Meghan plays an influential part in the southwest energy and water scene and has been recognized as an industry leader by both her peers and professional organizations. She has been personally featured in Attorney at Law Magazine and was named among the “Most Influential Women” by AZ Business Magazine in 2021. In 2022 she was named Energy Law Lawyer of the Year in Phoenix by Best Lawyers®.
At Osborn Maledon, Meghan represents energy, water, and wastewater companies in their transactional and regulatory matters, including expansion of service areas, rate cases, financing applications, negotiation of various extension and service agreements, plant and service territories acquisitions and divestitures, renewable energy and transmission projects (including approvals and development), and appeals from adverse administrative and public utility commission decisions. She represents telecommunications and technology clients, including cable and telecommunication providers, in contract negotiations and legislative activities with state and local governments. She has also represented large industrial and commercial users of electric services in commercial proceedings and negotiations.
Meghan regularly represents parties in power plant and line siting proceedings, as well as policy dockets and rulemakings at the Arizona Corporation Commission. She also has represents entities in condemnation matters, and several clients depend on Meghan as outside general counsel. In this regard, she provides legal and strategic advice on a range of corporate issues.
As an involved member of the Arizona community, Meghan has a long history of engaging in various organizations and foundations, including performing and singing in many community theater productions and benefit concerts, in addition to her position on several boards and executive committees. She also teaches a course on Utility Law and Regulation at her alma mater, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where she was first in her class, graduating summa cum laude and Order of the Coif.
Before entering private practice, Meghan was a judicial clerk for Judge Barry Silverman on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and for Justice Andrew Hurwitz of the Arizona Supreme Court.
