Dentons

Corporate

Dr. Gabriele Haas is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. Gabriele leverages her extensive in-house experience as an executive in the energy sector, advising on energy law, regulatory law and compliance.

Within her energy and regulatory practice, her main area of focus is energy transition issues, such as decarbonization, sector coupling, energy storage and advising on the regulation of hydrogen, green gas, clean and low emission fuels, e-mobility, emissions reduction and emissions trading as well as the wholesale energy market and its regulation.

In addition to her energy and regulatory practice, she advises clients on current compliance and ESG issues, such as the EU Taxonomy Regulation, the Supply Chain Duty of Care Act and the implementation of preventive measures for sustainable corporate governance, among others. She also advises on the development of customized compliance management systems, organizational structures and procedures, as well as on the risks of fines and civil liability. She further advises on the prevention of market manipulation and insider trading, bribery and corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing as well as violations of human rights.

Partner, Dentons, Frankfurt, 2020 to date Counsel, Dentons, Frankfurt, 2019-2020 Senior Vice President / Legal Director Compliance, Uniper SE, 2016-2019 Head of Legal, Internal Audit and Compliance, envia Mitteldeutsche Energie AG (RWE Group, now E.ON Group), 2014-2016 Head of Energy Law and Regulatory Law / Head of Energy Law and Antitrust Law, RWE AG/RWE Deutschland AG, 2009-2014 Legal Counsel, RWE Energy AG, 2008-2009 Legal Counsel / Associate Europe Regulatory, ExxonMobil International Ltd., 2004-2008 Legal Counsel, BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH, 2000-2004; assigned to the German Ministry of Economy and Technology (task force network access), 2001-2002 Teach and Research Associate, Chair of European Law, Civil Law, Trade Law and International Commercial Law, Prof. Dr. Meinrad Dreher, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 1998-2000

Member, Advisory Board of the Düsseldorf Institute for Energy Law, 2020 to date Member, Supervisory Board of Freiberger Stromversorgung GmbH, 2014-2016 Member, Supervisory Board of Stadtwerke Bitterfeld-Wolfen GmbH, 2014-2016 Member, Supervisory Board of Westnetz GmbH, 2013-2016 Member, Supervisory Board of RWE Ceská republika a.s., 2013-2015 Member, Advisory Board of KEVAG AG, 2012

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2004, Dr. iur.

Admitted to the bar, Germany, 2001

Legal clerkship, 1996-1998, Mainz

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 1996, Legal studies

Jaume I University, 1994, Exchange Program in Law