CMS Hasche Sigle advises Stadtwerke Schwäbisch Hall on expansion of cooperation with Greenpeace energy - Greenpeace energy takes over customer base of trademark unit[e] naturstrom

As of 1 January 2006 the Hamburg power provider Greenpeace energy eG will take over approx. 28,000 unit[e] naturstrom customers from Stadtwerke Schwäbisch Hall and provide them with clean power. In return Stadtwerke Schwäbisch Hall will continue to be responsible for the registration and billing procedure of clients. After the takeover Greenpeace energy will have approx. 55,000 customers - 1,500 of them business customers – and be the second largest independent provider of ecological power in Germany in terms of numbers of customers.


Adviser to Stadtwerke Schwäbisch Hall GmbH

CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart
Dr Maximilian Grub, Dr Ulrich Thiem


Contact CMS Hasche Sigle:

Dr Maximilian Grub
Tel.: +49 (0)711 / 9764-322
E-mail: Maximilian.Grub@cms-hs.com

About CMS Hasche Sigle:

CMS Hasche Sigle is one of the leading German law firms with more than 420 lawyers. It covers the entire area of commercial law and provides legal advice to major German and international companies from a wide spectrum of industry. CMS Hasche Sigle operates at all the major business centres. It has offices in Berlin, Cologne, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Dresden, Brussels, Belgrade, Moscow and Prague.

CMS Hasche Sigle is a partnership of lawyers and tax consultants; for register details / list of partners see www.cms-hs.com

CMS Hasche Sigle is a member of CMS, an alliance of leading European law firms. With over 575 partners, a total of 2,000 lawyers and tax consultants and around 3,800 support staff we advise our clients in 24 countries in Europe and further afield on legal and tax issues.

Local strength and legal tax advice tailored to the requirements of the market combined with a substantial amount of business and organisational integration form the basis for high-quality international legal advice.

In addition to CMS Hasche Sigle, the following firms are also members of the CMS alliance: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni (Italy), CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo (Spain), CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre (France), CMS Cameron McKenna LLP (Great Britain), CMS DeBacker (Belgium), CMS Derks Star Busmann (the Netherlands), CMS von Erlach Henrici (Switzerland) and CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz (Austria). CMS has 57 offices in 24 countries in Western and Central Europe, North and South America, Asia and North Africa.

For further information on CMS Hasche Sigle see www.cms-hs.com and on the CMS alliance see www.cmslegal.com .