Our range of advisory services
Climate protection targets that are binding under international and European law lead to far-reaching changes in the regulatory framework and the economic market environment. This opens up new business opportunities in competition. However, long-term capital-intensive investments by energy suppliers and industrial companies can also be economically endangered. Whether our clients want to seize new business opportunities or protect and secure their investments and previous businesses, the experts in our Energy industry group advise them at the highest level.
Our team of more than 40 lawyers from all relevant fields of law is proud to be commissioned by our clients when transactions, projects, cooperations, reorganisation, restructuring, arbitration or litigation proceedings become difficult and complex. In such cases we can use our specific legal and tax knowledge to the advantage of our clients. In addition, our partners contribute many years of industry knowledge, economic expertise, a deep understanding of technology and political empathy. We pursue a strategic consulting approach.
Our expertise covers the entire value chain in the energy industry, the extraction and production of coal, oil and gas, their maritime or land-based transport via ships, pipelines and transmission networks, the generation of electricity in conventional and renewable energy plants of all kinds, the storage of gas and electricity, the operation of distribution networks, the trading and sale of electricity and gas as well as media such as heat, cold or hydrogen.
Our clients include leading energy utilities, their generation, grid, trading or wholesale companies, independent power generators and energy traders, large industrial companies, project developers as well as financial investors and banks. They rightly place their trust in our many years of expertise and in the fact that we always advise them at the highest level.
- Purchase and sale of utilities and grid operators
- Power plant, underground gas storage and renewable energy projects
- Joint ventures and cooperation agreements, restructuring of utilities
- Implementation of unbundling provisions
- Regulation of network connection and network access
- Regulation of use-of-system charges / incentive regulation
- Concession agreements, concession levies, sale and transfer of networks
- Cooperation of network operators, network leasing
- Power supply and energy trading contracts / trading of emission certificates
- Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) / Combined Heat and Power Act (KWKG)
- Contracting
- Price control of electricity, gas, water and district heating / abuse of dominance proceedings
- Cooperation of utilities and network operators
- Validity and enforceability of long-term supply agreements
- German and European merger control notifications / coordination of international merger control filings
- Antitrust compliance and antitrust fine proceedings
- Privatisation of utilities
- Concession agreements and participation in utilities
- Procurement of energy demand, services, or street lighting
- Approval of power plants and renewable energy projects
- Approval of line construction or expansion projects
- Emission trading scheme for power plant operators and industrial enterprises
- Mining law advice with regard to natural gas and oil production or natural gas underground storage
- Leasehold agreements or leases in conventional power plant or renewable energy projects
- Engineering, procurement and construction agreements as well as services and O&M contracts for conventional power plant or renewable energy projects
- Residential contracting projects
- National and international arbitration proceedings in connection with energy or infrastructure projects or gas price adjustments
- Investment protection proceedings before international arbitration courts under the Energy Charter Treaty, UNCITRAL or ICSID
- Equity and debt financing of acquisitions and investments
- Financing of infrastructure projects
- Investment funds in the field of renewable energy
- Regulation of energy trading
- Tax structuring in support of transactions
- Tax optimisation of joint ventures, cooperations, reorganisations
- Transfer pricing advice
- Energy taxation
Hans-Christian Ackermann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Konrad Adenauer
Partner
Cologne
Dr Stefan Altenschmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Partner
Dusseldorf
Małgorzata Albe, LL.M.
Junior Consultant
Leipzig
Dr Stephan Bausch, D.U.
Partner
Cologne
Dr Johannes Becker
Partner
Cologne
Dr Carsten E. Beisheim
Partner
Dusseldorf
Lars Bollensen
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Michael Bormann
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Jürgen Bremer
Partner
Dusseldorf
Bernhard Burkert, LL.M. (Stellenbosch)
Partner
Berlin
Dr Arndt Begemann
Of Counsel
Essen
Yelena Bade
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Dr Valerie Blettenberg
Associate
Munich
Lilith Boos
Associate
Dusseldorf
Tarik Bilici, LL.M.
Consultant
Dusseldorf
Marx Dauth, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Dr Sabrina Desens
Partner
Leipzig
Philipp Dietz, LL.M. (Edinburgh)
Partner
Cologne
Dr Borbála Dux-Wenzel, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne
Dr Gernot-Rüdiger Engel
Partner
Hamburg
Lukas Erdmann
Associate
Berlin
Nicole Fröhlich
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Cosima Flock
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Dr Stefan Galla
Partner
Essen
Franz-Rudolf Groß, LL.M. (London)
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Dennis Gerdes
Senior Consultant
Hamburg
Dr Richard Happ
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Rut Herten-Koch, M.A.
Partner
Berlin
Dr. Guido Hoffmann, LL.M. (Cornell)
Partner
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Christian Horn, LL.M. (Tulane)
Partner
Berlin
Ekkehard Hübel
Counsel
Hamburg
Ramona Hubracht, LL.M. Taxation
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Jan-Lukas Henkst
Associate
Dusseldorf
Marie Hoster, LL.B.
Associate
Essen, Dusseldorf
Dr Guido Jansen
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Helmut Janssen, LL.M. (King's College London)
Partner
Brussels, Dusseldorf
Philipp Kersting
Partner
Jakarta
Dr Rolf Kobabe
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Stefan Kobes
Partner
Berlin
Karsten Köhler
Partner
Leipzig
Oliver Köhler
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Christiane Kühn, LL.M. (Hong Kong)
Partner
Munich
Pieter Krüger, Mag. iur.
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Lena-Annika Kauer
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Jakob Kauffeldt, LL.M. (Bond)
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Tillmann Kamp
Associate
Cologne
Dr Jana Karras
Associate
Leipzig
Dr.iur. Andreas Knaul, LL.M. diap (ENA)
Berlin
Elisabeth Lepique
Managing Partner
Cologne
Prof. Dr Tobias Leidinger
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Andreas Meyer-Landrut
Of Counsel
Dusseldorf
Mee Foo Moh
Of Counsel
Singapore
Dr Mathias Mailänder
Counsel
Hamburg
Andreas Mally
Counsel
Leipzig
Pauline Müller
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Paul Mey
Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Daniel Naumann
Partner
Leipzig
Ulf-Dieter Pape
Partner
Hanover
Caroline Priwitzer, LL.M.
Associate
Leipzig
Stephanie Quaß
Counsel
Frankfurt a.M.
Tim Rauschning
Partner
Hamburg
Benedikt Rechner
Counsel
Berlin
Dr Markus Sengpiel
Managing Partner
Cologne
Georg Scherpf
Partner
Hamburg
Prof Dr Florian Schulz M.B.A. (Nimbas)
Partner
Hamburg
Dr Björn Simon
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Holger Stappert
Partner
Dusseldorf
Gerd Stuhlmacher
Partner
Munich
Dr David von Saucken, MJur (Oxon)
Partner
Berlin, London
Leif Dustin Schneider
Counsel
Ho Chi Minh City
Jacqueline Dutz
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Vanessa Meireles Schilling, LL.M. (Geneva MIDS)
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Tim Schinkel LL.M. (Glasgow)
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.
Christoph Schnoor
Senior Associate
Hamburg
Sophie Schulz
Senior Associate
Leipzig
Selin Sahin
Associate
Dusseldorf
Daniel Stracke
Associate
Berlin
Arne Stumpe
Associate
Hamburg
Dr Johannes Teichmann
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.
Dr Frederic Tewes
Partner
Dusseldorf
Volkan Top
Senior Associate
Hamburg, Frankfurt a.M.
Christina Tsitiridis
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Henrike Sophie Tröger
Associate
Leipzig
Luca Thönes, LL.M. (Miami)
Senior Legal Consultant
Hamburg
Marc Urlichs
Counsel
Dusseldorf
Christiane Unterberger, LL.M. (UCL)
Associate
Munich
Dr Angelo Vallone
Partner
Dusseldorf
Dr Andreas Vath
Partner
Munich
David Wölting
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf
Quirin Wedel, LL.M. (London)
Associate
Hamburg
Simon Wickel
Associate
Dusseldorf
Ahmed Zoughbi
Associate
Dusseldorf
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International Onshore Wind Study
Biogas & Biomethane – Renewable Gases from Biomass
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Solar Energy – An Important Cornerstone of the Energy Transition
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Onshore Wind Energy – Pillar of the Energy Transition
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Offshore Wind Energy – Clean Energy from the Seas
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