Dentons
Client SatisfactionDentons‘ energy practice is headed up by Jan Jakob Peelen who is noted especially for his ’strong transactional knowledge and experience’. The team’s transactional workload includes advising oil and gas companies, commodity houses, and solar and wind developers on M&A transactions and joint ventures. Its regulatory caseload includes assisting clients with the securing of permits and approvals required for key projects in renewables contexts in particular.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Dentons' energy team is very pragmatic, approachable, knowledgeable and very much value for money. Their fee and matter management is excellent, and they truly are a cross-practice group, which uniquely combines administrative law and transaction management skills in particular.'
- ‘Jan Jakob Peelen is an excellent partner. He is approachable, likeable, pragmatic, calm and very knowledgeable. He is unique by having an administrative law and permitting background which he combines with that with strong transactional knowledge and experience.’
- ‘The team has the skills, knowledge and expertise necessary to conduct public law proceedings. Advice provided is clear and input into proceedings is very professional. Administration and billing is very well done. It is very pleasant working with the team.’
- ‘Individually, there is an enormous practical experience present, as well as a good track-record in terms of procedures. The team communicates pleasantly too.'
- ‘The team has extensive knowledge of the topics that we deal with as a company and good capabilities swiftly interacting with each other in order to get the right team together for the case at hand.'
- 'They are open and transparent in their communication in order to fully understand our needs as a client.’
- ‘Experts in understanding the case at hand.'
- 'Good in understanding our needs, but also patient with us when explaining the legal constraints or articles in the law to us, since our company are not legal experts, we are tech experts. They are also always approachable for a quick catch-up.’
Key clients
- BASF
- bp
- EnergoNuclear
- Eurus Energy
- Gasunie No
- Gidara Energy
- GIGA Storage
- Low Carbon
- Nordsol
- Q-Energy
- Rabobank
- RWE
- Shell
- Solarfields
- TotalEnergies
- Veolia
Work highlights
- Advising RWE Offshore on all regulatory and permitting issues regarding the 760 megawatts “Hollandse Kust West VII” development, located in the North Sea, which intends to combine offshore wind with electrolyser capacity for green hydrogen production, other flexible demand solutions and floating solar panels.
- Advising GIGA Storage, the leading energy storage company that develops, creates and deploys large-scale energy storage projects, in respect of its opening of the largest battery storage facility in the Netherlands. Managed all the corporate and financing aspects of this ambitious project, as well as the related regulatory issues such as zoning, land use, environmental, permitting, and construction law.
- Advising Low Carbon on the acquisition of multiple new ground-mounted solar projects, specifically advising on all environmental, permitting and regulatory issues, transaction documents, and power purchase agreements. On the construction side, also advised on all the relevant construction law issues, including the engineering, procurement, and construction; and operations and maintenance agreements.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jan Jakob Peelen