CMS

Energy & Climate Change

Partner

Cecilia van der Weijden is a member of the Corporate Practice Group and heads the Dutch Energy & Climate Change Team at CMS. For more than twenty years she has been dedicated to advising the energy sector on a wide variety of corporate and regulatory issues, including mergers and acquisitions and the development and project financing of (renewable) energy projects. She has a strong focus on renewable energy (on- and offshore wind, solar, biomass, biogas, heat, CCS and hydrogen projects) as well as gas and LNG contracts.

Cecilia has advised on a number of pathfinder projects, such as the development of the first Dutch offshore wind park (OWEZ), the participation of launching customers in the GATE LNG Terminal, the successful participation of Ørsted in the first Dutch offshore wind tender, the acquisition, development and project financing of (at the time) the largest solar PV park and the conclusion of the first two large corporate PPAs by global tech companies, including Microsoft.

Dutch, Italian, English, German, Chinese

Dutch Bar Association, NeVER, NWEA and ESNL

International Relations (int. economy and law), Johns Hopkins University, USA Dutch Law (Commercial and Private Law), University of Amsterdam Chinese Language, Xiamen University, China Sinology, Leiden University