Energy and natural resources
We provide comprehensive legal assistance to entities operating in the conventional, nuclear and renewable energy sector, to companies in the cogeneration and heating sector, and entities operating in the gas and liquid fuels sector, including leading domestic and international energy concerns.
Within this specialisation we provide:
- full legal support in the implementation of new and upgrading investments (construction of new conventional and nuclear blocks, renewable sources, performance of network investments and also upstream investments),
- full-range regulatory advisory, mainly in concession and tariff proceedings, and in proceedings involving a refusal to execute energy agreements, and other proceedings before the President of the Energy Regulatory Office, the Material Reserves Agency, Agricultural Market Agency, the Minister of the Economy, the Minister of the Environment and other regulatory authorities,
- legal audits of whether provisions of energy law and related laws are properly applied,
- legal assistance with drawing up, negotiating and implementing contracts for the sale, transmission and distribution of fuels and energy, network interconnection contracts, contracts on storage of gas and fuels, ticket and tolling agreements, and also the trade in emission rights and rights under certificates of origin,
- restructuring advisory for energy firms,
- legal support in affiliating clients on the energy exchange and in connection with the cross-border trade in electricity, gas and liquid fuels,
- advice on securing contractual positions in various transactions in the energy industry,
- services for M&A transactions in the energy industry,
- expertise and legal opinions on European law and its impact on the operations of energy businesses.
For many years now, together with business, financial and technical advisers we have carried out multi-team projects that are key for the energy sector.
Lawyers
- Research and development
- Compliance
- Regulatory advice for financial institutions
- Regulatory advice and legislation
- Energy and natural resources
- European business law
- Public finance and public services
- Infrastructure financing and debt issue
- Franchising
- Mergers and acquisitions of financial institutions
- Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring
- Bank lending and leveraged finance
- Real estate
- Unfair competition law
- Defence and space industry
- Data privacy
- Environmental protection
- Healthcare
- Public-private partnerships and concessions
- State aid and EU funds
- White-Collar Crime
- Restructuring & Insolvency Proceedings
- Pharmaceutical law
- Competition law
- Competition law in public procurement
- Tax
- Labour law
- Corporate law
- Contract law
- Intellectual property law
- Food law
- Private businesses and investors
- Reprivatisation
- Capital markets
- Special economic zones
- Arbitration
- Litigation
- Technology, media, telecommunications
- Transport
- Insurance
- EPC contracts
- Public procurement
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News | 13.09.2023 In this year's edition of the ranking published by the IFLR1000 publication, our law firm was again recommended in all seven practice areas.
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Deals corner | 12.09.2023 DZP advised the Enea Group's Enea Nowa Energia, part of the largest Poland's energy concerns, on the acquisition a 19.8 MW wind farm project from the Swedish company OX2 Holding Poland, the transaction value is in excess of EUR 57 million.
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Deals corner | 08.09.2023 ENGIE Zielona Energia, a leader on the renewable energy market in Poland, has finalised the third tranche of the purchase of five photovoltaic farms with a total capacity of 12.97 MW. The seller is Columbus Energy, a leading service provider on the modern energy market in Poland.
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Alert | 08.09.2023 Undertakings having or planning to have their own RES sources will be able to off-take energy from them without paying distribution charges, the new regulations came into force on 7 September 2023