Qualifications & Expertise
The Energy area offers comprehensive, sector-related advice from one source for local authorities, public sector operations and private supply enterprises. The lawyers in this area specialise in various legal areas. Their collective competence enables us to provide uniform advice in corporate, energy, cartel, contract-awarding, local authority, administrative and environmental law.
Specialists in the firm from other areas such as for example labour, tax or capital market law along with our property and construction sectors will be consulted as required.
The lawyers from the Energy division have been and still are involved in many commercially important privatisation procedures in the supply sector.
Main Focus
Main focuses of our work are
- mergers, privatisation, disposal and restructuring of private and public supply operations
- co-operations, purchasing and distribution joint ventures by Energy enterprises
- public-private partnerships
- planning, awarding contracts and building plants and infrastructure
- town-planning agreements and development contracts
- mains access and price abuse proceedings
- questions on energy law (Power-Heat Coupling Act, Renewable Energy Act etc.)
- energy supply contracts and contracting
- trading with power, gas and emission certificates
- subsidy control
- competitive tendering verification procedures