The CMS Energy Sector Group is a large team of dedicated lawyers who can provide legal and tax advice to clients on energy, utilities and infrastructure issues around the world. We have advised on many deals involving some of the largest companies within the energy sector.

As the energy sector sees greater integration, both vertical and horizontal, our team finds itself working closely with other colleagues across the firm, especially those in the electricity and environmental groups.

Our cross-border and domestic services for the energy industry include:

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Joint ventures
• Corporate and tax structures
• Transmission and pipeline systems
• Acquisition finance
• Regulatory and environmental issues
• Litigation and arbitration
• Public-private partnerships
• Planning, awarding contracts and building plants and infrastructure
• Energy supply contracts and contracting
• Trading with power, gas and emissions certificates
• Subsidy control
• Competitive tendering verification procedures

Collective Expertise

When you’ve worked in an industrial sector for as long as we have, your collective expertise becomes a very powerful tool. We work closely with governments, utilities, independent systems operators, power exchanges, financial institutions and public and private companies throughout the world.

We’ve advised on all types of issues and our clients come from a wide range of sectors, including:

• Electricity industry
• Oil and gas industry
• Renewable energy
• Climate change (Kyoto Protocol)
• Emissions trading

Green Economy

CMS has also launched a Green Economy team which focuses on legal services relating to the environment, including project management, legislative work and litigation. These services include:

• Environmental liability
• Waste management and re-use
• IPPC compliance
• Environmental and town planning permits
• Soil remediation
• Climate change and carbon markets
• Renewable energy and green certificates
• Green buildings and energy efficiency
• Ecotaxation
• Well-being at work

Contact

To contact one of our legal experts, please see the contact list in the right column.