Energy & Utilities

Recent matters DGKV’s Energy & Utilities team has worked on include:

• Advising the Bulgarian Government on the privatization of three Bulgarian thermal power plants.
• Advising Contour Global L.P. on the acquisition of Enel’s 908 MW lignite-fired thermal power plant.
• Advising the China Development Bank on project financing of portfolios of solar PV power plants in Bulgaria developed by Sky Solar and Chint Solar.
• Advising Chevron Corporation on gas exploration activities in Bulgaria.
• Advising ČEZ on the design, construction, financing, and operation of a CCGT Power Plant 880 MW in Varna, Bulgaria.
• Advising Hitachi Solutions Co. Ltd. on its acquisition of the ABB Power Grids business.
• Advising AES Horizons in relation to the development, construction, and operation of a new 670 MW lignite-fired thermal power plant.
• Advising OMV AG on the acquisition of Bulgaria’s national petrol retailer, Petrol AD.
• Advising Merrill Lynch on the regulatory regime applicable to the trading of electricity and oil & gas in Bulgaria.
• Advising VMware Bulgaria, part of the US cloud computing company VMware Inc, on its obtaining of an electricity supply from renewable sources for its office in Sofia’s Garitage Park residential and business complex.
• Advising Abu Dhabi National Energy Company TAQA on its contemplated acquisition of AES’s worldwide wind power portfolio, which includes AES’s 156 MW wind power plant in Bulgaria.
• Advising lead arranger HSBC on the restructuring of project financing extended to Petroceltic.
• Advising Nabucco Gas Pipeline International on various regulatory and property-law issues.
• Advising Axpo Trading on trading-in-power matters.
• Advising Raiffeisen Energy & Environment on the acquisition, development, construction, operation, and sale of wind power projects in Bulgaria.
• Advising Japan’s Marubeni Europower on its acquisition of a CCGT power plant.
• Advising Mitsui & Co in relation to the acquisition, construction, and operation of a solar power plant.
• Advising the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Bulgaria on the organizing of separate tenders of sales of electricity to industrial consumers.
• Helping VERBUND protect its rights and interests in the grid interconnection of a wind power plant.
• Advising Vitol on trading in power, gas, and CO₂ allowances, including its obtaining of a power-trading license.