Dentons’ lawyers are highly specialized in the energy sector. Our team works at the forefront of most recent legal and political developments and given our expertise you may count on us for advising you in your transactional, regulatory and day-to-day corporate practice.

At the crossroads of technology, business and law, you can receive specialist advice in the following areas:

• Corporate / M&A / privatizations
• Renewable energies/combined heat and power generation
• Energy contracts
• Power projects
• Pipeline projects
• Project and corporate finance
• Energy-related competition law and merger controls
• Power station permission procedures and related construction law
• Grid operation (gas/electricity)

Our advisory spectrum covers the entire life cycle of a project in the energy business. We combine our expertise in Regulatory and Public Law, Project Finance, Corporate and Tax to work on a variety of different matters. This includes questions of operating networks as well as the drawing up of energy supply and grid access agreements. In addition we advise on all questions of corporate and tax law, and we offer strategic advice for politically sensitive transactions and projects.

We deliver precise and tailor-made solutions at the highest possible standards of services, integrity and professionalism. Each matter is handled by an experienced and carefully-tailored team of dedicated lawyers according to your personal needs. We understand your business in the energy sector and are familiar with challenges and pitfalls that might arise in this industry.

Our team advises clients at all links to the chain of economic value-added in the energy sector: renewables specialists, energy suppliers, energy trading companies, power plant operators, constructors, large customers, financial investors and financial institutions, strategic investors, and industrial clients. Dentons lawyers work for more than 40 governments on energy-market reform and major project procurement, which adds a depth of perspective rare amongst law firms.

Insights

Investing in renewable energy projects in Europe

February 2019

Ten years after the European Union vowed to produce 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, it has made huge progress toward that goal. Now, a new challenge beckons: In 2018, the EU formally set itself a binding target to achieve 32 percent of energy from renewables by 2030.

Investing in renewable energy projects in Europe

January 2018

The great European energy transition continued in 2017 and, across the continent as a whole, shows little sign of slowing up in 2018. Ever lower levels of subsidy and guaranteed power prices awarded after fiercely competitive tenders have not deterred developers or financiers, who still see opportunities even in the more mature renewables markets.

Industrial Emissions in Europe

December 12, 2017

Industry is driving economic growth, at the same time industrial production processes account for a considerable share of the pollution in Europe. On 6 January 2011, the EU adopted Directive 2010/75/EU (the Industrial Emissions Directive or IED).

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Be part of the "next big thing" in Dusseldorf

July 2019

Chanel suits on Kö and punks on the streets. Frank Gehry in the Media Harbour and the "longest bar in the world" in the Old Town. Japan Quarter and DAX Groups. 

Dentons wins two Corporate and M&A partners for its Dusseldorf office

June 27, 2019

Global law firm Dentons has strengthened its Corporate practice with the recruitment of Dr. Predrag Maksimovic and Frank Tepper-Sawicki as partners in its new office in Dusseldorf. With their extensive transactional experience in M&A, private equity and venture capital, they represent an essential pillar of the service offering in Dusseldorf, which also comprises Competition and Antitrust, Employment and Labor, Public Policy and Regulation, Real Estate and Tax.

Dentons advises EP Infrastructure on German Schuldschein loan issuance

May 14, 2019

Global law firm Dentons has advised EP Infrastructure (“EPIF”) on the issuance of its inaugural German law governed €182.5 million Schuldschein loan. This was one of the largest Schuldschein transactions placed by a CEE borrower in the past year. 

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