Heather Arbogast

Heather Arbogast is a partner in the Baltimore office of McGuireWoods LLP, a leading international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers in 21 offices worldwide. She serves as a strategic corporate advisor to utilities, energy companies, developers, power purchasers, sponsors, investors and other clients on a broad range of transactions and regulatory issues in the power, retail energy, solar, wind and battery storage sectors of the energy industry.

Heather has significant experience advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and structured commodity transactions and in structuring and negotiating project development and offtake agreements, including power purchase agreements, engineering, procurement and construction contracts, fuel supply and transportation agreements, and related project development documentation. Her regulatory compliance experience includes overseeing retail energy compliance on a statewide basis for a Fortune 500 energy utility, and regularly assisting one of the top four retail energy providers in the U.S. with compliance-related matters.

Following law school, Heather was a judicial clerk for the Honorable Kathryn Grill Graeff of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. While earning her law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law, she was the editor-in-chief of the University of Baltimore Law Review, member of the National Moot Court team, chair of the Moot Court Board, and received the law faculty graduation award. She has been recognized by Chambers USA for her Corporate/M&A work in Maryland since 2018.