Europe - Germany • Public sector
Linklaters
Linklaters particularly often demonstrates its environmental and planning skills in planning and approval procedures for large electricity and gas projects: in this context, the team is not only involved in federal planning advice, but due to practice head Markus Appel's expertise, also covers contractual and climate protection aspects. Appel also increasingly advises on ESG and provides environmental due diligence and compliance assistance for IPOs, M&A transactions and project financing.
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Work highlights
- Comprehensive advice to TenneT on SuedLink, the “main artery” of the energy transition, and SuedOstLink projects.
- Advising Amprion GmbH on upcoming planning proceedings (federal planning, plan approval) for the so-called HVDC corridor B.
- Approval and environmental law advice, in particular due diligence on existing approvals and environmental compliance, for Carrier Global Corporation as part of the acquisition of Viessmann Climate Solutions.
Lawyers
Leading individuals
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Markus Appel