Léone Klapwijk

Practice Areas

Léone's principal areas of practice are energy regulatory law (varying from electricity and natural gas to heat and hydrogen), 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 (heat) supply and production companies in the regulated markets, companies in the chemical and industrial sectors, 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. She is at her best when (together with the client team working on multidisciplinary, complex energy projects.

Her practice includes negotiating and drafting specific energy market related agreements, providing legal advice with regard to energy laws and regulations (both current and proposed/draft), and representing clients in legal (and administrative law) proceedings.

Léone is (co-)author of several legal journal publications on various energy law topics and lecturer on electricity and gas regulation at the Postgraduate course 'Climate change and energy transition' at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam.

Career

2020: Partner Van Doorne

Professional Memberships

Author Netherlands Journal of Energy Law; Member of the Dutch Energy Law Association (NeVER)