Thomas P. Gadsden is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Energy Practice. Mr. Gadsden's work focuses on public utility regulation, administrative law, and energy litigation. For more than 30 years, Mr. Gadsden has represented electric, natural gas, water, wastewater, and steam heat clients in a wide variety of regulatory, litigation, and transactional matters before federal and state commissions and courts. In that capacity, he has participated in more than 70 rate cases and has been at the forefront of the restructuring of the electric and natural gas utility industries, advising clients on the legal, financial, and policy issues arising from the transition to competitive energy markets. In addition, Mr. Gadsden has served as regulatory counsel on several of the largest energy and water company mergers and acquisitions in recent years.

Mr. Gadsden is a past chair of the American Bar Association's Section on Public Utility, Communications, and Transportation Law and of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Public Utility Law Section. In addition, he has spoken at meetings of the Atomic Industrial Forum, the Institute for International Research, the Southeast Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, the National Association of Regulatory Attorneys, the National Association of Water Companies, and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1991 as one of the country's leading energy attorneys.

Mr. Gadsden is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.