Serena A.Rwejuna

Serena Rwejuna helps energy companies achieve their business goals by solving energy regulatory problems in the enforcement, compliance, transactional, and policy contexts. She has experience with a variety of clean energy technologies, including solar, wind, hydro, and waste-to-energy. She counsels utilities, generators, pipelines, natural gas distribution companies, and other energy industry participants on compliance with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulations and advises them on project development, mergers and acquisitions, and state regulatory compliance. Serena advises clients on proposed energy market transactions and trading strategies to avoid or mitigate enforcement risk from FERC, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), state public utility commissions (PUCs), and regional transmission organization (RTO) market monitors. She represents energy companies and individual traders before FERC and CFTC.

Serena is a member of the Washington Office's Recruiting and Diversity Committees. Her pro bono service includes participating in the Firmwide Africa Practice, working on matters impacting women's and refugees' rights and other civil rights issues.

Serena is president of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the American Association of Blacks in Energy and chair of the Alternative Energy Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Environmental & Energy Litigation Committee. She is a member of the Energy Bar Association's (EBA) D&I Task Force, Professional Education Council, vice chair of the Young Lawyers Council, and serves on the Compliance & Enforcement and Electricity Steering Committees. Serena serves as president of the Calvary Women's Services Board of Directors, co-chairs the DukeDC Regional Board of Directors, and is an inaugural member of the Duke Law Alumnae Leadership Council.