Dentons covers an array of matters relating to projects and energy, utilising the firms’ office across the CEE region to provide cross-border developers, suppliers and distributors with the full range of services, notably in mandates pertaining to regulatory advice, transactional work and project development. At the forefront of the practice, Juraj Gyárfáš remains a key contact for high-value M&A transactions in the energy sector.
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Accolades

Client satisfaction: Billing & efficiency
Client satisfaction: Sector knowledge

Testimonials

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  • The team has a clear focus on the commercial incentives that drive our business and works pragmatically and creatively to help us achieve our goals. They offer quality throughout, from partners down to junior lawyers. The team is pleasant to deal with and is always available when we need them. They are diligent and hardworking.
  • Rob Irving - Rob is fantastic: he has a wealth of experience to call on and uses this to come up with creative and pragmatic solutions. He has a good sense of what drives our business and our level of risk appetite. He is great to work with and always available when we need him. Sebastian Ishiguro - Senior Associate - hardworking, diligent, and confident to put forward his views. A safe pair of hands.
  • The team have a clear focus on the commercial incentives that drive our business and work pragmatically and creatively to help us achieve our goals. They offer quality throughout, from partners down to junior lawyers. The team are pleasant to deal with and are always available when we need them. They are diligent and hardworking.

Key clients

  • Infracapital Partners
  • Yanmar Group
  • Ensto CEE
  • Mevis Slovakia
  • BK Investment
  • VUJE
  • Engie
  • GRUNT
  • Veolia

Work highlights

Advising Infracapital, a British fund, the investment arm of financial group M&G, focused on energy infrastructure, on the sale of GGE, the Slovak energy group, investing in many areas of the energy sector, including generation, distribution and supply.
Advised Yanmar Group, a Japanese-headquartered global engine and machinery manufacturer, on its acquisition of TEDOM, a Czech-based energy engineering company, from Jet Investment fund.
Advising Ensto CEE, s.r.o. as a participant in a tender organised by Západoslovenská distribučná, a.s. (E.ON) for critical components required in the operation of the electricity distribution network.
Practice head

Juraj Gyárfáš