Law Office of Rohan S. Grant, PLLC

Client Advocacy in Legal Matters: Specialize in handling transactional disputes, contract negotiations, litigation, and compliance. Skilled in representing clients at public hearings, depositions, arbitrations, trials, and delivering comprehensive legal support.

Expert in Navigating NYC Council Funding: Adeptly guide nonprofit clients through the complexities of the New York City Council’s discretionary funding application and award process. Provide risk management and strategic advice to organizations in order to secure critical funding and support.

Leadership in Campaign Operations: Facilitated operations for multiple high-stakes electoral campaigns across New York’s five boroughs. My leadership in ballot petitioning, phone banking, volunteer engagement, and issue troubleshooting significantly increased campaign effectiveness and voter outreach.

Commercial Litigation, Renewable Energy, & Government Relations

Affila Group

Spearheading Stakeholder Engagement: fleet-electrification outreach, conducting extensive market research, and fostering strategic partnerships with government agencies, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), dealers, educational institutions, and trade associations.

Alliance Building for Advocacy Success: Establish and nurture a dynamic network of alliances encompassing community groups, elected officials, business leaders, and legislative bodies at both city and state levels. Advance advocacy strategies and achieve client objectives through collaborative efforts.

General Counsel, Executive VP

Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrara, Wolf & Carone, LLP

Here, I managed the litigation of insurance defense matters, representing carriers in claims stemming from motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, labor law violations, and construction accidents.  Member of the firm’s Insurance Defense and Commercial Litigation Departments. 

I appeared on behalf of clients at hearings, depositions, oral arguments, mediations, arbitrations, and at trial serving as First Chair.

I also wrote internal position and policy papers based on research into emerging legislation at the state and municipal levels.

SENIOR ASSOCIATE - GENERAL LIABILITY

New York City Council

In this role, I researched statues and case law to build internal memos and reports on City Council legislation, defending against challenges to City Council laws governing labor, healthcare, and small businesses.  

I advised Council members on litigation, legislation, internal investigations, and compliance.  Specific topics included legislative privilege, ethics, and conflicts of interest.

This role involved engagement with the New York City Conflicts of Interest Board on behalf of Council Members and staff.

I also drafted and filed motions at the state and federal level.

Associate General Counsel

Quinn Emanuel

I supported the discovery phase of a large-scale foreclosure prevention and mortgage-backed securities litigation matter.  

My scope of responsibilities included the preparation and summarization of depositions, and the review of documents to identify issues for discovery.

Litigation Support Attorney

General Counsel and Executive VP at Affila Group, a leading consulting firm that helps clients accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. With over 15 years of experience in the public and private sectors, I have a proven track record of delivering innovative and client-focused solutions in complex and high-stakes situations.

I leverage my expertise in public-private partnerships, renewable energy, clean-tech, infrastructure, and commercial real estate to facilitate the development and deployment of EV infrastructure and services across the country. I also oversee the legal and regulatory aspects of the company, ensuring regulatory compliance, risk management, and best practices. I am passionate about driving positive change and creating value for our company, its partners, and its customers.

Rohan Grant

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Researcher and Analyst (Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure)

Postdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Research Intern

Rochester Institute of Technology

♦	Developed Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACC) for electric technology vehicles (ETVs) in the personal transportation sector in the U.S. The model accounted for consumer-level behavioral, geographical, and stock heterogeneities.
        The comprehensive consumer-level analysis revealed that without federal subsidies a subpopulation of only 1.7% can financially benefit from ETVs saving 20 Million MT of CO2e with an average MACC of −$45 per MT of CO2e.
     The analysis also highlights impacts of battery technology prices, gasoline prices, and federal subsidies on financial and emission saving benefits.
♦	Developed cascading diffusion model (integrated incumbent technology replacement model) that accounts for consumer-level demand-side (behavioral, geographical, and stock) heterogeneities to forecasts future market share of Electric Technology Vehicles (ETVs) in the U.S. personal vehicle market. Principles of technology progress (i.e. earlier adopters make a technology cheaper for the following adopters) were employed through single factor learning rates for batteries and non-battery EV technologies.
	Results showed that; the resulting ETV market share is 23% higher compared with if consumers were treated to have an average consumer’s usage.
	The analysis also showed that the future outcomes depend on uncertainty in the current price of ETVs and future conventional vehicle cost significantly
♦	Performed data distillation encompassing an analysis of raw data collected from public electric vehicle charging stations
	Constructed daily charging profiles of Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PEV) users that depicts the use of public charging stations
	Performed cluster analysis of daily charging profiles of users to identify 5 distinct behaviors of PEV users 
	Discovered 54% of the time the public charging stations are used inefficiently, i.e. only for parking and not charging.

PHD Researcher

Iron Mountain

-	Provided a solution with of alternative fuel vehicles as a part of a pilot fleet transition project 
(already in process of implementation) to reduce scope 1 GHG emissions  
-	Assessed technical feasibility for all available alternative fuel vehicles for freight transportation with respect to company’s operational requirements 
-	Conducted financial feasibility and assessed government—federal and state—grants and incentives, and led discussions with stakeholders to rollout the pilot fleet
-	Designed a methodology to scale up the fleet transition from conventional fuel vehicles to alternative fuel vehicles, which can be applied to similar businesses
-	The company is investing over $1 million in the pilot fleet—mix of different classes and fuels—of 10 vehicles, which is expected to save 48.47 MT CO2e in one year of operation
-	Proposed a roadmap and performed potential GHG emissions savings analysis from a fleet transition to alternative fuel vehicles
-	Finalized and submitted application to achieve an EPA SmartWay Truck Carrier Partner status for Iron Mountain

EDF Climate Corps Fellow 2017

Collaborative Policy Consultants

Freelance Consultant

Sinhgad College of Engineering (University of Pune)

Assistant Professor

Self-Employed Contractor

-	Developed a business plan for a team researcher participating the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s deployable waterless toilet system program 
-	Conceptualized and prepared designs of the system

Independent Consultant

Ink Future

-	Established the India chapter of this global think-tank network and steered bi-weekly group discussions with associates
-	Generated summary reports and circulated among global associates to continue online discussions

Associate

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

-	Thesis: Thermo-Economic analysis of direct steam generation (DSG) of central tower in solar tower systems
-	Proposed a new architecture for the DSG receiver
-	Modelled a thermal model of complete receiver system with boiler, super-heater, and re-heater sections in MATLAB
-	Calculated optimized mass flow rate for a large scale regenerative Rankine cycle power plant of 123 MW

Research Assistant

Aksons Solar Equipments Private Limited

-	Designed an innovative and low-cost ‘Parabolic Trough Concentrator’ (PTC) for roof-top mounting
-	Developed and deployed process steam generation systems with PTC and Scheffler Concentrator 
-	Led a team to develop an innovative solar water heating system: ‘AKSON’S PENTA’
-	Member of a core team to formulate and realize a technology exchange MoU

Design Engineer

EV Researcher and Analyst at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Transportation and Energy Systems)

Currently, I am working as a Researcher and Analyst (Electric Vehicles and Charging Infrastructure) at NREL's Center for Integrated Mobility Systems (CIMS) as a part of the Sustainable Transportation Integration Group.

I primarily support the Federal Fleet team and U.S. DOE's Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP). I work on EV charging infrastructure analysis projects, along with a variety of interdisciplinary integrated modeling and analysis transportation-related projects involving techno-economic analysis, financial modeling, technology adoption, and system dynamics.

I am a mechanical engineer specializing in energy technologies, a trained project manager, and an interdisciplinary researcher and analyst in sustainability. 

Link for Ph.D. dissertation: https://scholarworks.rit.edu/theses/10152/

The clean energy and transportation fields excite me, and my goal is to work in a setting that will allow me to use my diverse skill set to tackle projects in this field. 

Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lqVvJ3IAAAAJ&hl=en

Skillset: 

Sustainable Mobility, e-mobility, Clean Transportation, Multi-criteria Decision Analysis, Data Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Analysis, System Dynamics Modeling, Game Theory, Simulations, Energy Policy, Project Management, Energy System Analysis, Renewable Energy Technologies, Economics, Life Cycle Analysis, Finance, Solar Thermal Energy, Concentrated Solar Power

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