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Winston & Strawn Paris’s energy law team has developed significant experience in the electricity and gas sectors as well as in the selling and trading of greenhouse gas quotas and credits. Our lawyers master the technical and economic facets of these sectors of activity and counsel and assist our French and foreign clientele in all related aspects, including drafting and negotiation contracts and representing them before the administrative authorities competent within the framework of the applicable regulations.

The experience of our lawyers in the electricity and gas sectors and in the field of reduction of greenhouse gases comprises the following aspects:

• development and financing of energy production projects (including cogeneration and renewable energies),
• acquisitions and disposition of assets or companies,
• commercialization of electricity and gas,
• cross-border provision and transport of gas,
• regulation and competition law,
• environment, and
• the resolution of disputes.

In the context of the current deregulation of the French electrical and gas markets and the implementation of mechanisms designed to reduce greenhouse gases, the lawyers of our Paris office are able to provide global and innovative assistance by drawing on the considerable experience of Winston & Strawn’s U.S. energy law practice, acquired in the liberalized electric and gas markets of the United States.