Léone Klapwijk

Léone's principal areas of practice are energy regulatory law (comprising of electricity, natural gas, heat, CO2, LNG and hydrogen). Her expertise encompasses energy transactions, large-scale energy projects, energy contracts and energy (regulatory) litigation.

Léone represents a wide spectrum of participants in the energy markets. Her clients include large energy supply and production companies in the regulated markets, companies in the chemical and industrial sectors, and transmission and distribution system operators. She has extensive experience in solving and handling issues in the field of regulated and non-regulated (CO2, fuels, hydrogen) utilities. Léone is at her best when working on multidisciplinary, complex energy projects alongside the client team.

In addition, Léone is a (co-)author of several legal journal publications on various energy law topics and a lecturer on electricity and gas regulation at the Postgraduate course 'Climate Change and Energy Transition' at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. She is also a member of the advisory board of VU Amsterdam for postgraduate education.

As a member of the board of the Dutch Heat network Association ‘Stichting Warmtenetwerk’ Léone actively supports cooperation among stakeholders of (collective) heat systems to enable the heat transition in the Netherlands.

2020: Partner Van Doorne

Author Netherlands Journal of Energy Law

Member of the Dutch Energy Law Association (NeVER)