Energy

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.

Our range of advisory services

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

Credentials

E.ON – Post-Merger Integration of Innogy SE into the E.ON Group

Vertically integrated Gas Wholesale & Trading Company – Reorganisation and strategic re-positioning

Vattenfall – Investment arbitration proceedings against the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the nuclear phase-out in Germany

Leading power generators – Advising on coal phase-out in Germany and the Netherlands

Statkraft - Representation before the Federal Administrative Court in connection with planning approval procedure for a 380 kV high-voltage line

Gas Wholesale Company - Connection of an LNG landing station to the gas pipeline network

IRI Investments – Participation in Veja Mate offshore wind farm

Eneco - Acquisition of LichtBlick SE

Avacon – Joint venture with Salzgitter and Linde in an innovation project for emission-free steel production from "green" hydrogen

TrailStone – Sale of the direct marketer e2m Energy2market to the French EDF Group

Avacon – Expansion of 110kV high-voltage grid, regional planning and planning approval procedure as well as demand planning process for the grid development plan for electricity

Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie – Decommissioning and dismantling of the research reactor Berlin II

Utilities of Cottbus, Halle (Saale), Schwerin – New build gas turbine and gas engine power plant projects

E.ON Energy Projects –Industrial power plant project for DSM Nutritional Products at the Grenzach-Wyhlen site

Tennet TSO – Litigation proceedings with regard to delayed connection of an offshore windfarm

E.ON/PreussenElektra – Representation in ICC arbitration proceedings against Belgian Electrabel for refund of nuclear fuel tax

E.ON – Representing in investment arbitration proceedings against Spain seeking damages for changes in promotion of renewable energy projects

MEAG Munich Ergo Asset Management – Participation in STEAG-Fernwärme

Financial investor – Indirect participation in the Nord Stream 2 project and the EUGAL pipeline

Open Grid Europe – Advising on the acquisition of TSO jordgas Transport from Statoil in joint venture with Gasunie

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Key Contact

Dr Holger Stappert

Partner

T +49 211 5660 24843

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Team Energy

Hans-Christian Ackermann
Partner
Dusseldorf

Dr Stefan Altenschmidt, LL.M. (Nottingham)
Partner
Dusseldorf

Dr. Konrad Adenauer
Counsel
Cologne

Susanne Abraham
Senior Associate
Berlin

Dr Stephan Bausch, D.U.
Partner
Cologne

Dr Arndt Begemann
Partner
Essen

Dr Carsten E. Beisheim
Partner
Dusseldorf

Dr Michael Bormann
Partner
Dusseldorf

Dr Jürgen Bremer
Partner
Dusseldorf

Dr Johannes Becker
Counsel
Cologne

Jannik Becker, LL.B.
--
Frankfurt a.M.

Philipp Dietz, LL.M. (Edinburgh)
Partner
Cologne

Dr Borbála Dux-Wenzel, LL.M.
Partner
Cologne

Dr Sabrina Desens
Senior Associate
Leipzig

Freya Dabisch
Associate
Leipzig

Dr Gernot-Rüdiger Engel
Partner
Hamburg

Nicole Fröhlich
Partner
Frankfurt a.M.

Cosima Flock
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf

Dr Stefan Galla
Partner
Essen

Franz-Rudolf Groß, LL.M. (London)
Counsel
Dusseldorf

Dr Carolina Gabriel
Of Counsel
Essen

Dr Richard Happ
Partner
Hamburg

Dr Karl von Hase
Partner
Dusseldorf

Dr Christian Horn, LL.M. (Tulane)
Partner
Berlin

Ekkehard Hübel
Senior Associate
Hamburg

Ramona Hubracht, LL.M. Taxation
Senior Associate
Frankfurt a.M.

Dr Juliane Hoss
Associate
Dusseldorf

Dr Guido Jansen
Partner
Dusseldorf

Dr Helmut Janssen, LL.M. (King's College London)
Partner
Brussels, Dusseldorf

Philipp Kersting
Partner
Jakarta, Singapore

Dr Rolf Kobabe
Partner
Hamburg

Dr Stefan Kobes
Partner
Berlin

Karsten Köhler
Partner
Leipzig

Philipp Kropatscheck Nguyen, LL.M.
Of Counsel
Singapore

Christiane Kühn, LL.M. (Hong Kong)
Senior Associate
Munich

Elisabeth Lepique
Managing Partner
Cologne

Prof. Dr Tobias Leidinger
Partner
Dusseldorf

Sebastian Laoutoumai, LL.M.
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf, Essen

Dr Jakob Lohmann
Associate
Munich

Dr Mathias Mailänder
Counsel
Hamburg

Andreas Mally
Counsel
Leipzig

Ulf-Dieter Pape
Partner
Hanover

Stefanie Prehm
Partner
Cologne

Dr Stephan Rippert LL.M.
Partner
Munich

Tim Rauschning
Senior Associate
Hamburg

Vilma Remmert-Fontes
Senior Associate
Hamburg

Benedikt Rechner
Associate
Dusseldorf

Dr Markus Sengpiel
Managing Partner
Cologne

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

Christoph Schnoor
Associate
Hamburg

Dr Frederic Tewes
Senior Associate
Dusseldorf

Luca Thönes, LL.B. (Hanse Law School), LL.M.(Miami)
Associate
Hamburg

Jenny Tsynn
Associate
Leipzig

Marc Urlichs
Counsel
Dusseldorf

Dr Angelo Vallone
Partner
Dusseldorf

Alexander M. Wojtek, LL.M. (Duke)
Partner
Hamburg

Christian Wensing LL.M. (London)
Associate
Dusseldorf

David Wölting
Associate
Dusseldorf

Prof. Christian Zanner
Partner
Berlin

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