Sally Barrett-Williams

Partner

London
Business Phone: +44.0.20.7038.6664
Business Fax: +44.0.20.7038.6651

sbarrettwilliams@troutmansanders.com

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Sally has worked in the energy sector and in regulation, in the UK and overseas, since 1990 and has held senior posts both in industry and with sector regulators. Her work has included privatisation and liberalisation, market design and restructuring, as well as issues relating to government and regulatory bodies and anti-trust matters.

Publications 
"An Uncertain Future for Renewables" October 2007
"Regulating the European Energy Market" September 2007
"Selling Out" August 2007
"The End of Competition" July 2007
"Through a Glass Darkly" June 2007
"Meters Matter" May 2007
"Who Wasted E.ON’s Money?" April 2007
"Raising Carbon Prices"; March 2007
"France V The Commission" February 2007
"The Competition Investigations" January 2007
"Getting Tough With Allocations" December 2006
"Trade Secrets" November 2006
"The Shape Of The Future" October 2006
"The New Infrastructure Authority" September 2006
"It Matters How Much It Costs" August 2006
"A Pig in a Poke" May 2006
“Do They Mean What They Say” April 2006
“The Energy Roadmap” March 2006
“The Common Market in Energy” February 2006
“The Energy Agency” January 2006
“More Power to the Commission?” December 2005
“Commission Report on the EU Energy Market” November 2005
“Crisis? What Crisis?” October 2005
“Climate Change” August 2005
“Better Regulation?” May 2005
“Phase II EU ETS” April 2005
“Competition Investigation” March 2005
“Regulation with a Light Touch?” November 2004
“The Risk of Rushed Reform” October 2004
“The Pricing Review” September 2004
“Changing the Scope of the RO” August 2004
“A Regulatory Hammer” July 2004
“Rushed Regulatory Policy” June 2004
“Energy Bill Update” May 2004
“Kyoto Made Easy” April 2004
“Energy Bill News” March 2004
“Power Delivers EU Emissions Targets” February 2004
“The Energy Bill: Rights of Appeal” January 2004
“The Renewables Obligation Watershed” December 2003
ediotr CMS Electricity Market Update Annual Volume 2003
“NGC’s New GTMA” summer 2003
“The Regulation of Electricity Trades” January 2002
editor CMS Energy Market Update 2001-2003
editor CMSElectricity Market Update 2001-2004
editor Troutman Sanders Energy Market Update

Sally Barrett-Williams is the chairman of the Energy & Utility Forum, an industry policy body aimed at senior executives and sits on the editorial board of UK Powerfocus, to which she also contributes a monthly column.

Presentations and Speaking Engagements
"The Future of Energy Policy in Europe," Emart Conference, Berlin, October 2006

"What Energy Policy?" UK Powerfocus, London, April 2006

Work Experience
Troutman Sanders LLP, 2005-present
Principal, Castaldi Mourre Sprague, 2001-2005
Board member: Chief Legal Adviser and Director of Legal Services, The Rail Regulator, 2000-2001
Assistant Director, Legal Services, The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets, 1999-2000
Legal Manager of Turkey, China, and Head of UK Commercial (Legal), National Power PLC, 1990-1999
Senior Assistant, Simmons & Simmons, 1987-1990
Administrative Law Bar, 1985-1987 

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Education

  • King’s College, 1999
    London, postgraduate diploma EC Competition Law
  • Inns of Court School of Law, 1985
    Barrister at Law
  • University of Westminster, 1984
    Dip. Law
  • Wolfson College, 1979
    Oxford, D.Phil
  • King’s College, 1976
    Cambridge, research
  • University College London, B.A., 1974
    (Hons)


Court Admissions

  • 1985 Called to the Bar by Inner Temple
  • Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales


Memberships

  • The Bar of England & Wales
  • Inner Temple
  • International Bar Association
  • Law Society Energy Lawyers’ Group