Our market leading Energy, Renewables, Utilities & Climate Action Group is a multi-disciplinary team of highly experienced lawyers who provide legal advice across a broad range of practice areas
These areas include Financing, M&A, Joint Ventures, Construction, Environmental and regulatory issues, State Aid, Procurement, Litigation, Real Estate and Tax.
We are committed to helping clients keep pace with market and regulatory developments, as well as enabling entry into new markets. In so doing, our cross-departmental team has the industry knowledge required to advise on the commercial, legal and regulatory aspects of all energy projects.
Energy transition
Within the ever-changing global energy landscape, we provide our clients with innovative advice to help navigate their way through the current energy transition to renewable sources and the move towards less carbon intensive generation.
We understand the interaction of current issues, such as the growing global energy demand, the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as the current security of supply concern. As such, we are best placed to assist market participants in facing the most complex and challenging decisions, within the expansive regulatory frameworks.
Conventional power
We advise on all matters involving the development of thermal power projects. In the current energy landscape, we understand the need for fuel diversity. To that end, we have significant experience in all areas concerning the construction and operation of conventional power plants as well advising on the market interface. To date, we have advised on:
- Power plant construction and operation
- Gas supply contracts, hedging and disputes
- Carbon trading contracts
- ISEM and Capacity Market participation
Power Purchase Agreements
We have seen an increase in parties, including corporate entities, negotiating and executing complex power purchase agreements. In general, these agreements are typically between an independent generator of renewable energy and a large energy user. We have extensive experience in the negotiation and drafting of these agreements.
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