Eric J. Krathwohl

Eric J. Krathwohl, a managing director and member/shareholder of the firm, concentrates on energy, telecommunications and regulatory matters, including corporate and finance work for energy, telecommunications and cable companies and electric, gas and water utility companies. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Connecticut and has a law degree from Cornell Law School and is a member of the academic honorary societies, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi. For over twenty-five years, Mr. Krathwohl has had an active practice before the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities and Department of Telecommunications and Cable and many other regulatory commissions, having represented energy and telecommunications companies in scores of adjudicatory and rulemaking proceedings. Also, his practice has included representation of clients in numerous commercial transactions. He has been active in matters relating to restructuring of the electric, gas and telecommunications industries, increasing competition in those industries, and unbundling the service offerings of public service corporations. Mr. Krathwohl has represented clients in several matters before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and has been a speaking panelist with top industry and government officials at conferences on electric restructuring and increasing competition in the utility industry and telecommunications matters. Mr. Krathwohl also has considerable experience in a variety of corporate and contractual matters in the telecommunications and energy fields. He served as the Chairman of the Boston Bar Association Energy and Telecommunications Law Committee from 1995 to 1998 and is a member of several other energy and bar associations. Mr.Krathwohl is a member of the Executive Committee of the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (“NECA”) and formerly served as co-chair of NECA’s Renewable Energy and Distributed Generation Committee. He is also a member of the Steering Committee of the MIT Enterprise Forum Energy Special Interest Group and its annual Clean Energy Business Plan Competition. Mr. Krathwohl co-authored the portion of an administrative law treatise dealing with public utility regulation and authored articles concerning energy matters in energy trade journals and other published compilations.


From 2005-2008, Eric J. Krathwohl has been named one of the elite lawyers in Massachusetts by Super Lawyers, a joint publication of Boston Magazine and Law & Politics. His peers in Boston and throughout Massachusetts individually chose Mr. Krathwohl as an outstanding attorney.