Daniel Canavan Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Executive with proven ability to lead, drive change and deliver results through collaborative leadership style focused on building relationships.
• Lead state regulatory organization for Avangrid’s Connecticut and Massachusetts based utilities, including The United Illuminating Company, Connecticut Natural Gas Corporation, The Southern Connecticut Gas Company, and.
• Lead organization comprised of a team of regulatory professionals, responsible for the development and implementation of a variety of regulatory strategies, including ratemaking, revenue requirements, rate design.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including direct and ongoing interaction with community, municipal and legislative leaders.
• Coordinate with C-Level teams across matrix-based enterprise organization to ensure alignment of strategic initiatives and programs.
• Responsible for all aspects of the business unit from performance, staffing, hiring decisions, compensation, training, quality management, budgeting, and forecasting.

Greater New York City Area

Senior Counsel to Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE:AGR), a diversified energy and utility company with more than $30 billion in assets and operations in 25 states. Provide counsel across a broad spectrum of issues, including the development of regulatory policy, internal and governmental investigations, commercial transactions, corporate governance, litigation.

Greater New York City Area

• Served as lead counsel and corporate secretary for the corporate parent of Connecticut and Massachusetts based electric and gas utility companies, serving approximately 750,000 customers.
• Trusted advisor to CEO and executive office level suite officers, which are highly-sophisticated users of legal services.
• Lead role formulating regulatory strategy on a variety of renewable energy related issues, including the development of non-wires alternative programs such as energy storage, distributed generation facilities, advanced.
• Lead counsel in the negotiation of significant purchase power agreements (PPAs), interconnection agreements, including zero emission facilities such as offshore wind, nuclear generation, and solar combined with energy.
• Lead counsel in the development of renewable energy credit (REC) and shared clean energy programs, cybersecurity critical infrastructure reporting, and risk and litigation management protocols.
• Managed legal resources (mix of internal and outside counsel, paralegals and staff) to ensure that the legal needs of the organization are met with high-quality legal services within budgetary guidelines.

Berlin, Connecticut

Provided legal counsel to Eversource Energy (formerly Northeast Utilities) (NYSE:ES) and its family of subsidiaries, serving more than 3.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Berlin, Connecticut

Provided legal counsel to Northeast Utilities Service Company and its family of subsidiaries

Hartford, Connecticut

Experienced all aspects of litigation including trial, jury selection, settlement negotiations, arbitrations, mediations, depositions, expert witnesses, pretrial conferences, motion practice, oral argument, and discovery

Hartford, Connecticut

Jd, Law, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Quinnipiac Law Review Association, Phi Delta Phi, Mock Trial Society, State of Connecticut Legal Internship.

Law

Studied Irish legal history, constitutional law and the interaction of law, Irish society, and the European Union.

Bs, Accounting

Activities and Societies: Varsity Lacrosse, NCAA Division III, ECSU Varsity Athlete Scholastic Honor Award, Omicron Delta Kappa.