Transactions

• Counsel to Bouygues Construction in its acquisition of Alpiq Engineering Services, a leading Swiss player in the energy, industrial services and rail infrastructure sectors for CHF 850 million
• Counsel to Canton of Graubünden and Axpo Holding AG, the main shareholders in SIX-listed electric power company Repower AG, in connection with Repower's strategic repositioning, delisting and CHF 170 million capital increase subscribed by EKZ and UBS Clean Energy Infrastructure Switzerland KGK (UBS-CEIS)
• Advice to Services Industriels de Genève (SIG) in the acquisition of 15.05% of the shares in SIX-listed
• Energiedienst Holding AG from EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG, Germany
• Advice to Innobas AG and its shareholders in the carve-out of its electricity power plant into the newly established EW Schils AG and its subsequent sale to St. Gallisch-Appenzellische Kraftwerke AG
• Advice to The Carlyle Group in its acquisition of 50% of Swiss-based Varo Energy Group, active in oil refining, pipeline, storage and wholesale distribution, including the Cressier refinery from Vitol Group and Atlas Invest

Regulatory

• Counsel to Varo Energy in various merger control proceedings with the Swiss Competition Commission
• Advice to major Swiss electricity producers and the industry association (Swisselectric) on electricity production and cooperation models
• Advice to various Swiss major electricity providers on electricity and network tariffs
• Representation of large Swiss energy producers and distributors in important cases in administrative law procedures concerning energy and grid tariffs, etc.

Litigation/arbitration

• Representation of the Russian Federation before the Swiss Supreme Court in setting-aside proceedings related to an award rendered under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)
• Counsel to large international group active in the energy and commodity trading sectors in a EUR 20 million commodity trading dispute under Senegalese law
• Representation of a leading energy company in a price revision dispute
• Defence of a leading Russian energy company against a corporate liability claim brought by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to the Swiss courts
• Counsel to German energy group in arbitration, and parallel litigation and enforcement proceedings in Switzerland and abroad against a Russian counterparty over the exploration of large gas fields in Russia and long-term gas delivery contracts