Practice Areas
Since 2003 Michał advises clients on projects in the European Energy Market, focusing on business oriented regulatory, project development, contractual and transaction advice. He also assists state aid, competition, public procurement and dispute avoidance and resolution teams in complex infrastructural and energy cases.
Michał supports clients in relation to all types of business decisions related to Climate and Energy Transition, from on-shore and off-shore renewable energy (RES) projects, battery storage, combined heat and power generation (CHP), and nuclear energy, through to electromobility, renewable hydrogen, energy efficiency, bio-fuel and biochemicals, power and gas network development and integration, and wholesale and retail energy markets.
He’s experienced in subsidy systems for RES, capacity and balancing markets, cross-border transactions, including infrastructure development, energy commodity and derivatives trading, REMIT and MiFID 2 compliance, market-coupling, as well as power purchase agreements (PPA) and multi-purpose interconnectors.
Michał supports domestic and international business associations, contributing to advocacy efforts of WindEurope, Lewiatan Confederation and the Polish Energy Trading Association (TOE), working on matters involving Business Europe and the European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET). He represented clients at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the Agency for Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER), and National Regulatory Authorities for Energy (e-Control, ERÚ, URE).
Career
Michał Motylewski is a Counsel and Energy Transition Director in the Warsaw office with over 20 years of experience in providing legal advisory services to governments, energy sector companies, financing institutions, industrial and commercial clients, and business associations.