Cecilia van der Weijden
Europe Guide 2024
Energy & Natural Resources: Transactional + 1 more ranking
Band 2
Band 4
About
Provided by Cecilia van der Weijden
Practice Areas
Cecilia van der Weijden is a member of the Corporate Practice Group and heads the Dutch Energy & Climate Change Team at CMS. For more than twenty years she has been dedicated to advising the energy sector on a wide variety of corporate and regulatory issues, including mergers and acquisitions and the development and project financing of (renewable) energy projects. She has a strong focus on renewable energy (on- and offshore wind, solar, biomass, biogas, heat, CCS and hydrogen projects) as well as on gas and LNG contracts.
CCecilia has advised on a number of pathfinder projects, such as the development of the first Dutch offshore wind park (OWEZ), the participation of launching customers in the GATE LNG Terminal, the successful participation of Ørsted in the first Dutch offshore wind tender, the acquisition, development and project financing of (at the time) the largest Dutch solar PV park and the conclusion of the first two large corporate PPAs by global tech companies, including Microsoft.
Career
2009: Partner at CMS.
2004: Partner at Norton Rose.
1994: Lawyer at Houthoff Buruma.
Professional Memberships
Dutch Bar Association, NeVER, NWEA and ESNL.
Publications
Articles/newsflashes, e.g. on CMS portal Law-Now and Lexology.
Personal
Languages: Dutch and English