Matt is a Director in Frontier’s energy practice leads across a range of topics in utilities regulation, with a particular focus on UK energy networks.
His expertise covers cost analysis and benchmarking, finance, incentive design, and regulatory strategy. Matt is a recognised energy sector expert in WWL/Lexology, having provided expert witness testimony to the CMA in UK price control appeals; and in major international investment arbitrations relating to energy infrastructure.
He has provided due diligence advice to investors in a range of high-profile infrastructure transactions in the UK and across Europe; and has led work on developing new approaches for regulating the infrastructure that will be required to meet decarbonisation targets – covering hydrogen grids, heat networks, new models for electricity generation infrastructure and more. Through his career Matt has collaborated with leading law firms, major investors, energy utilities, regulators and Government bodies.
In the UK, Matt has worked with both energy networks and Ofgem, advising on the design and implementation of network regulation. His expertise includes benchmarking and cost assessment; incentive design; outputs regulation; cost of capital; and financial modelling. Matt has a particular interest in issues around the future of gas in the UK having led Frontier’s study into future gas network regulation for the Committee on Climate Change; and various projects relating to developing commercial and regulatory frameworks for hydrogen.
Matt graduated in PPE from Oxford University and completed a MSc in Economics at Birkbeck University.
