Drew represents public utilities with respect to all manner of legislative and regulatory issues, including administrative litigation, regulation compliance and governmental affairs before the Georgia General Assembly. He also advises public utilities on a wide range of federal and state regulatory issues, including administrative actions, regulatory and statutory compliance, supply-side recourse construction monitoring, privacy, open records law requests, and customer service issues. Drew has more than 20 years of experience representing utilities in various matters, including resource planning; rate design; cost-of-service issues in rate cases; supply-side resource certification; electric vehicle charging service deployment; and demand-side management program design, implementation and certification.

Drew has extensive experience in government ethics compliance and election law, providing guidance to companies, trade associations and political action committees (PACs) on federal and state laws relating to lobbyist registration and reporting, gifts for public officials, and political campaign contributions and expenditures. He also assists clients in the formation and administration of corporate-sponsored and independent PACs on the federal, state and local levels. Drew has particular experience counseling public utilities, corporations and U.S. subsidiaries of international companies on the specific federal and state laws and rules that apply to those entities.

Adept at navigating public policy issues, Drew has represented clients before the Georgia Public Service Commission and has successfully lobbied to amend state statutes that affect them. Beyond Georgia, Drew has counseled electric utilities concerning regulatory issues in Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Drew also has significant experience in connection with state regulatory treatment of wholesale sales, the Georgia Open Records Act, the Georgia Administrative Procedure Act, trade secret filings and the Georgia deregulated natural gas market.

• Drafted and successfully lobbied for enactment or amendment of Georgia statutes affecting utility regulation, integrated resource planning, environmental protection, transportation, state revenue code, banking, insurance, employment and appropriations.
• Served as counsel to Georgia Power Co. in its 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2019, and 2022 retail rate proceedings before the Georgia Public Service Commission, focusing on decommissioning, depreciation, rate design, environmental cost recovery, utility mergers, electric vehicle charging service deployment, and cost-of-service issues.
• Served as counsel to Georgia Power Co. with respect to its 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025 integrated resource plans.
• Represented Georgia Power Co. in its certification and amended certificates of its residential and commercial demand-side resource programs in 2017, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022, and 2025.
• Counseled Georgia Power Co. in its certification of McDonough units 3, 4 and 5; Mitchell unit 2 biomass conversion; and Plant Vogtle nuclear generating units 3 and 4.
• Represented electric utilities in rulemakings at the Georgia Public Service Commission.
• Advised Georgia Power in its merger with Savannah Electric and Power Co.
• Served as counsel to Southern Co. before several state regulatory commissions in its merger with AGL Resources.
• Counseled numerous electric utilities regarding regulatory compliance and marketing practices.
• Provided guidance with respect to the development of requests for proposals (RFPs) for long-term power purchases, evaluation of bids and negotiation of power purchase agreements.
• Advised Georgia Power Co. and Savannah Electric and Power Co. in their acquisition of McIntosh units 10 and 11 from Southern Power Co.
• Advised Georgia Power in the creation of its Green Power Program and Simple Solar Program and in the procurement of green energy resources.
• Counseled Georgia Power Co. in the creation of the independent evaluator system for evaluating RFP bids, mandated and created by the Georgia Public Service Commission.
• Advised Georgia Power Co. with respect to several customer service matters, including privacy issues, Fair Credit Reporting Act issues, disconnections and user fee issues.
• Helped prepare witnesses to testify in several actions before the Georgia Public Service Commission.
• Counseled electric utilities concerning military privatization issues.

• On the Rise, Top Lawyers in Georgia Under Age 40, Fulton County Daily Report (2015)
• Best Lawyers in America®: “Lawyer of the Year” in Energy Regulatory Law (2023)
• Best Lawyers in America®: Energy Law (2024-2026), Energy Regulatory Law (2016-2026)