Practice Areas
An energy market lawyer, Jérôme Lépée's practice covers the entire energy value chain, providing both advisory and litigation services, including representation before the Energy Regulatory Commission. A former legal counsel for EDF and its subsidiary RTE, he is a pioneer in energy law and played a key role in the opening of the electricity market.
Described as an "operational", "responsive" and "efficient" lawyer, his clients praise his legal approach imbued with a strong technical and economic culture specific to energy.
Leading a team of lawyers dedicated to the activity, Jérôme Lépée intervenes in the most innovative areas of energy, in regulatory, contractual or complex structuring matters: hydrogen or green gas production, self-consumption, batteries/BESS, access to networks and interconnections, electric and gas charging stations for vehicles, smart grids ; on innovative contracts (PPA, aggregation), international contract templates (EFET, ISDA), market mechanisms: capacity market and guarantees, adjustment, flexibility, CEE, public/private partnerships.
Jérôme Lépée counts among his clients large energy groups and their dedicated subsidiaries, mid-sized companies, SMEs, and public players of all sizes: State and satellites, Regions, local authorities.
Since 2009, Jérôme Lépée has been teaching Energy Law in the Master 2 "Public Business Law" at the Faculty of Law of LYON III. He is also co-editor of the annotated Energy Code published by Editions Dalloz since 2014, and a member of the Renewable Energy Syndicate.
Career
Partner lawyer at Adaltys since 2012, and head of the Energy Department
Associate lawyer at Adaltys (2008 – 2012)
Legal counsel at the Legal Department of EDF (1997 – 2001) then of RTE (2002 – 2008)
