Languages
- German
- English
Friedrich von Burchard advises on energy law, regulation, hydrogen, renewable energies as well as on stakeholder management in complex energy and infrastructure projects. He regularly represents his clients in official and court proceedings.
Having worked for the E.ON Group for over 20 years, he has long-standing specialised in-house expertise in all aspects of German and European energy law and regulation. He has been a partner at CMS since 2012 and Of Counsel since 2025. Until 2018, Friedrich was also the long-standing chairman of the German gas industry's delegation to negotiate the Gas Network Code and of the System User Committee of the association Eurogas. He has been an officer of the Oil & Gas Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) and co-chair of the Working Group on Hydrogen/Low Carbon Energy Sources in the joint project of the IBA and the Association of International Energy Negotiators (AIEN) developing model contracts and clauses for hydrogen.