Ashurst LLP 's projects & energy practice, led by Maximilian Uibeleisen, supports national and international investors, project developers and energy companies in transactions and joint ventures and focuses on ​​renewable energies, as well regulatory matters, such as grid remuneration, the energy price cap and compliance. Other mainstays are the advice on power purchase agreements and interfacing financing matters.

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Key clients

  • DIF
  • CommerzReal
  • Octopus Energy
  • Vulcan Energy Resources
  • Iberdrola
  • adidas
  • Greenovative
  • BP
  • One Dyas
  • Engie
  • Green Investment Group
  • Macquarie Capital
  • Bullfinch Asset AG
  • AREAM
  • Querco Fagetea
  • Westfalen AG
  • Versicherungskammer Bayern Versicherungsanstalt des öffentlichen Rechts
  • Starlight Energy LP
  • Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
  • RKW SE
  • Trina Solar

Work highlights

  • Advising Commerz Real AG on entering into a development cooperation to enter the German agri-PV market and on the acquisition of a large agri-photovoltaic project for its impact fund Klimavest.
  • Advising Octopus Energy on its entry into the German renewables market and on the acquisition of several wind farms in Germany.
  • Advising adidas AG on a Europe-wide virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) as part of the implementation of the group's internal goal of climate neutrality at adidas locations by 2025.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Maximilian Uibeleisen

Other key lawyers

Benedikt von Schorlemer, Simon Groneberg, Martin Eimer