About

Provided by Watson Farley & Williams

Watson Farley & Williams is a leading international law firm in the energy sector. Our services are based on deep industry knowledge combined with significant transactional experience including banking and finance, corporate and tax law.

The energy and utility sector is in transformation. Market players need to address an ever-changing set of regulatory and environmental framework conditions, impacts of fuel prices, technologies and investment models. 

As leading energy experts, we have been helping a wide range of well-known domestic and international banks, investors, energy utilities and developers to manage the challenges of this tremendously dynamic market. 

Our experience includes working on a variety of pioneering energy and infrastructure transactions and projects in Europe, the United States and Asia.

We frequently lend our legal expertise to legislative projects which – in combination with our industry knowledge and expert know-how in the energy sector – allows us to provide clients with pragmatic solutions to progress their projects.

Our energy clients include:

  • banks and other financiers
  • financial investors including infrastructure and private equity funds
  • energy utilities
  • developers
  • insurers and pension funds.

Chambers Review

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Energy - Germany

3
Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Watson Farley & Williams is a well-respected law firm in the German energy market with a particularly strong standing in the financing of renewable energy projects. Its strength in offshore wind fields is especially noteworthy. The team is equally present in complex and often cross-border sales and acquisitions of energy assets, acting on behalf of asset managers and energy corporates. Clients also benefit from the law firm's strength in the comprehensive handling of large renewable projects. Furthermore, the team represents clients in energy arbitration. In addition to acting for prominent corporates, Watson Farley & Williams also advises prestigious banks and consortiums.

Wofür das Team bekannt ist

Watson Farley & Williams ist eine renommierte Kanzlei auf dem deutschen Energiemarkt mit einer besonders starken Position bei der Finanzierung von Projekten im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien. Besonders hervorzuheben ist ihre Stärke in Offshore-Windfeldern. Das Team ist gleichermaßen bei komplexen und oft grenzüberschreitenden Verkäufen und Übernahmen von Energieanlagen tätig und handelt im Auftrag von Vermögensverwaltern und Energieunternehmen. Mandanten profitieren zudem von der Stärke der Kanzlei in der umfassenden Abwicklung von Großprojekten im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien. Darüber hinaus vertritt das Team Mandanten in Energieschiedsverfahren. Watson Farley & Williams ist nicht nur für namhafte Unternehmen tätig, sondern berät auch namhafte Banken und Konsortien.

Work Highlights

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  • Watson Farley & Williams advised the German subsidiary of Eavor Technologies on its EUR350 million financing of its first commercial geothermal project.

  • Watson Farley & Williams hat die deutsche Tochtergesellschaft von Eavor Technologies bei der Finanzierung ihres ersten kommerziellen Geothermieprojekts in Höhe von 350 Millionen Euro beraten.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Malte Jordan
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Malte Jordan
2
Band 2

Malte Jordan is based in Hamburg and well known for his expertise in the sale and acquisition of renewable energy projects, as well as related financing mandates. Infrastructure funds and energy companies alike belong to his prestigious clientele.

Malte Jordan is very reactive and always reachable.

Malte Jordan lebt in Hamburg und ist bekannt für seine Expertise im Verkauf und Erwerb von Projekten im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien sowie den damit verbundenen Finanzierungsmandaten. Infrastrukturfonds und Energieunternehmen gehören gleichermaßen zu seinem namhaften Kundenkreis.

Malte Jordan ist sehr reaktionsfreudig und immer erreichbar.

Ranked Lawyers at
Watson Farley & Williams

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Energy: Transactional

Malte Jordan
2
Malte Jordan
2
Band 2

Members

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Carolin Woggon

Christian R. Schindler

Christine Bader

Gerrit Bartsch

Marcus M. Bechtel

Sebastian Baum

Sebastian Wulff

Stefan Hoffmann

Stefan Kilgus

Sven Fretthold

Verena Scheibe

Wolfram Böge

Clients

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Commerz Real AG

Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF)

HSH Nordbank AG

PNE WIND AG

Strabag OW EVS GmbH

WKN AG

Industries

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Banks

Construction & Materials

Energy

Financial Services

Industrial Engineering

Real Estate

Utilities