Energy

Lawyers for the Energy Industry

Lexing provides a wide range of high-quality legal services to national and international clients. The firm’s strength lies in its ability to provide appropriate advice in a variety of legal areas in the different branches of energy law.

The firm advises the various market players:

• regulators (national or regional);
• energy producers (electricity, gas, oil);
• distributors (private and public);
• various types of intermediaries (traders, etc.); and
• energy consumers.

Lexing offers effective legal solutions in energy law

Lexing offers flexible legal solutions tailored to your needs and resources.

We offer a full range of services, including:

• international contract law: energy purchase and sale (producer-consumer, traders, Internet sales, etc.); electricity, gas and oil transmission; power plant construction; nuclear trading;
• corporate law: establishment of subsidiaries and branches, approvals;
• public law: relations with public authorities and regulatory bodies
• European law: competition law; state aid;
• assistance in legal proceedings as well as in alternative dispute resolution (arbitration, sector-specific arbitration chambers, etc.); and
• relations with supervisory authorities;
• processing of personal data.

We have one objective: to provide you with effective and pragmatic solutions.

We assist you before all authorities in the energy sector

The firm represents its clients before all competent public authorities:

• the European Commission, in its most appropriate office, either the Directorate General (“DG”) for Competition or the DG Energy;
• the Belgian federal sectoral authority, i.e. the Commission de Régulation de l’Electricité et du Gaz (“CREG”);
• the various regional sectoral authorities, i.e. the Walloon Regulator (“CWAPE”) and the Vlaamse Regulator van de Energiemarkt (“VREG”).

We represent you in front of the network operators:

• National (Elia); or,
• Local (Sibelga, RESA, ORES, …); or;
• International.