Europe - Germany • Industry focus
Dentons
Dentons' energy team offers expertise in transactions and project work, including related financing with frequent ties to renewable energies, as well as advising on LNG and conventional energy projects. Among the key contacts for transactions is practice head and offshore wind expert Thomas Schubert, while Gabriele Haas and Florian-Alexander Wesche are experienced in regulatory matters, another core focus of the practice. Here, recent instructions pertain to security of supply and price caps. The client roster includes energy suppliers, energy-intensive companies, energy providers and energy customers, which the team also advises on interfacing antitrust law matters as well as on e-mobility and charging infrastructure. Transaction experts Thomas Dörmer and Tim Heitling joined Hogan Lovells International LLP in January 2024.
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Testimonials
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'Good cooperation between the German and Dutch Dentons teams regarding energy law.'
'Gabriele Haas has also worked as an in-house lawyer for a long time and therefore knows the structures in companies and their requirements for external legal services very well. Excellent knowledge of energy markets. Great commitment and time flexibility.'
'In-depth expertise in energy law and regulatory issues, extensive track record regarding transactions in the data center segment.'
'Gabriele Haas has extensive experience in legal advice in the context of energy law/power grid operation/expansion of grid connection capacities, including the relevant regulations.'
'Gabriele Haas is our contact person, always competent, up-to-date and efficient.'
'Florian-Alexander Wesche offers a great perspective on business and legal issues in the energy sector. '
'We find the Dentons team to be very open, friendly and approachable, whereby in addition to the high level of professionalism and technical quality in the collaboration, the cooperation and interpersonal interaction must also be emphasized.'
'Thomas Schubert has impressed us since the beginning of our collaboration with his high level of professional expertise and extensive experience, which usually puts us in a better position in negotiations with contractual partners, for example, and therefore contributes very positively to our company's development. Particularly noteworthy here are the tactical-strategic foresight and (when appropriate) refreshingly efficient, pragmatic and goal-oriented approach, which leads to the best results.'
Key clients
- Solandeo
- Inopitas
- Daimler
- Mainsite
- goetel GmbH
- Infracapital
- Stadtwerke Hamm GmbH
- Slate Asset Management
- Qualitas Energy
- Commerz Real Nein
- Trotec Holding GmbH
- BayernLB, Dänemarks Exportkreditagentur (EKF)
- JLL
- Enbridge
- e-mobilio GmbH
- ARLANXEO
- Britishvolt
- NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank
Work highlights
- Advising Slate Asset Management on the financing of Move About Group AB as part of the expansion of the electric vehicle fleet by more than 150 electric vehicles and the expansion of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles across Europe.
- Advising Qualitas Energy on a partnership with Surplus Equity Partners to build a comprehensive wind energy portfolio in Germany.
- Advising BayernLB as lender and agent and the Danish Export Credit Agency (EKF) as lender on financing for RWE AG for two offshore wind farms.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Thomas Schubert