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European Energy

Our European energy team is part of McDermott Will & Emery’s global energy services group, which includes more than 40 lawyers across multiple offices with substantial experience in all areas of power, gas, oil and emissions regulation, transmission services, power plant regulation, contracting and energy and emissions trading.

Members of the McDermott Will & Emery European energy team are based in our offices in London, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Munich and Rome, and the services provided include:

  • Monitoring, analysing and providing advice about regulatory and legislative developments affecting the energy markets

  • Advising on power plant regulation and contracting

  • Representing and advising energy companies and investment banks in litigation concerning transactional issues in the energy sector

  • Representing clients in mergers and acquisitions in the energy sector (including the acquisition of power plants and energy trading businesses)

  • Advising extensively on power, natural gas, emissions and oil sales, transactions, documentation and trading (including drafting and negotiating GTMA, EFET, ISDA and other master agreements and related documents for over-the-counter forward (physical delivery) and derivative (financially settled) transactions)

  • Advising major international investment banks and other financial institutions on credit and other risks posed by trading in electric power pools and regional transmission organisations

  • Advising clients on tax issues arising in the energy trading sector

  • Advising on insolvency issues arising in the UK energy markets

  • Representing clients in structured energy and credit derivatives transactions

  • Drafting and negotiating agreements and related documents for the provision of scheduling and risk management services in energy markets

  • Advising on cartel cases in the energy sector

  • Representing clients in international arbitration disputes in the energy sector

  • Advising on EU competition law, cross border transactions and trade in the energy markets

  • Advising on State Aid particularly in the nuclear energy sector and in nuclear decommissioning

  • Advising energy producers and power plant contractors in privatisation and liberalisation processes in European electricity markets

  • Advising on production sharing and supply agreements, energy field developments, construction projects and compliance and authorisation procedures

  • Advising on the establishment and financing of power plants

  • Representing clients in the acquisition of interests in electricity assets and companies

  • Advising on energy joint-ventures and field developments

  • Advising on production sharing agreements

  • Advising on EU gas and electricity market liberalisation Directives

  • Advising on European Emissions Trading System (ETS), Kyoto Protocol and related EU regulatory requirements

  • Advising on EURATOM Treaty and implementing legislation/rules

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