Nick Bryanskiy is a regulatory lawyer with 15 years of experience in the power sector in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, including in-house experience with AltaLink Management Ltd. through the “Big Build” and regulatory groups of two of Canada’s largest law firms.

Nick’s regulatory practice involves all aspects of power generation, transmission and distribution in Alberta with a special focus on complex rate and tariff matters, facility approvals, interconnections, and overall asset management. Recently, Nick’s regulatory practice is focused on gas-fired and renewable energy generators; industrial load and data customers looking for self-supply and BFT opportunities, as well as rural utilities and REAs.

Nick has represented Applicants and Interveners in over 100 rate and facilities proceedings and hearings before the Alberta Utilities Commission, including multiple General Tariff and Rate Applications of TFOs and DFOs, as well as ISO Tariff Applications. He has also acted for clients before the Alberta Court of Appeal, including recent Permissions to Appeal AUC Decisions (e.g., Battle River Power Coop v. Alberta Utilities Commission, 2023 ABCA 259, leave granted).

Nick’s international regulatory practice is primarily focused on sanctions (Russia, Iran, Sudan and other sanctions regimes in Canada, U.S. and European Union); CFPOA and FCPA, anti-money laundering compliance, as well as export and import controls.

Prior to his Canadian regulatory practice, Nick was trial counsel at the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, where he assisted the bench of 46 European judges in French, English and Russian. In that role, he was involved in over 1,000 proceedings regarding the right to life, prohibition of torture and fair trial under the European Convention of Human Rights and other Council of Europe projects.