Tory Lauterbach Bio

Victoria “Tory” Lauterbach is a partner in Gibson Dunn’s Washington, D.C. office. She has extensive experience providing regulatory and transactional advice to energy companies, large energy users, and their investors. She represents renewable and traditional energy companies, including investor-owned utilities, independent transmission companies, independent power producers, energy investors, natural gas companies, and pipeline shippers in a variety of regulatory, transactional, and litigation matters. She also advises data center developers, investors, and lenders on all aspects of development and administration of data center power supply arrangements. She advises clients regarding the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Natural Gas Act (NGA), the Interstate Commerce Act and related federal and state statutes, as well as requirements under public utility tariffs and agreements. Tory regularly represents clients before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and federal appellate courts, has represented clients before the Department of Energy (DOE) and state public utility commissions, and frequently interfaces with regional transmission organizations (RTOs) and independent system operators (ISOs) to further her client’s wholesale market interests. Tory has significant hands-on experience in power supply and infrastructure development negotiations, administrative litigation, settlement proceedings, and providing legal advice in heavily regulated energy industry market environments, including wholesale electricity and carbon markets. She also provides pragmatic and timely counseling to her clients in today's dynamic political and regulatory environment, including the developing landscape surrounding electrification and electricity load growth, renewable energy, energy storage, transmission development and interconnection, carbon emissions reductions, and the larger energy transition. Tory has been recognized for her work in the Energy: Electricity (Regulatory & Litigation) category of Chambers USA (2021-2024) and Chambers Global (2022-2025). She is also recognized by Lawdragon as one of the 500 Leading U.S. Energy Lawyers in the practice areas of Energy Transactions, Regulatory & Litigation (2023-2025). Tory frequently draws high praise from those she advises, most recently in the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, in which a client stated that she “has extensive knowledge regarding FERC compliance, but her commercial savvy and excellent drafting and negotiating skills allow her to be effective on a broad range of matters including energy transactions and commercial disputes."