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With more than 450 energy and climate change lawyers, including over 100 partners, the CMS Energy and Climate Change practice is one of the largest of its kind in the world. Led from its centres of excellence such as London and Aberdeen, the practice works across 75 offices globally. Our early work in designing and implementing modern energy markets and subsequently guiding the sector in the push to decarbonisation means CMS is not only a transactional or project adviser to the sector, but uniquely placed to help shape its present and future.

A key driver of the global economy, the energy and climate change sector is affected by geopolitical, economic and regulatory pressures. You require advisors who understand your industry and work with leaders of energy companies, regulators, governments, industry bodies and investors on the cutting edge of commercial, regulatory and risk issues in the sector. Based across 17 jurisdictions in Central and Eastern Europe, we have been active in CEE since the beginning of the privatisation and liberalisation of the energy and climate change sector across the region. We have helped to shape the sector by advising on the most high-profile and ground-breaking projects and transactions over many years.

Our dedicated energy and climate change lawyers work in every part of the sector, including upstream and downstream oil & gas, electricity, nuclear and renewables. Whether you are a NOC, IOC, independent, electricity company, investor, government or financial institution, we have the energy specialists to meet all your strategic challenges globally. Our multi-disciplinary teams were among the first to advise on ground-breaking global oil and gas M&A and on power projects in Europe, to establish a single electricity market in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, lead historic electricity industry reform in Mexico, and work on renewable energy projects globally.

In Poland we advise clients on a wide range of investment projects and regulatory issues. We also represent clients before regulators.

Our team has been recognised as the leading energy practice for almost 20 years.


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01/06/2023
Po­land to amend Elec­tri­city Prices Act with im­pact on GoOs and vir­tu­al...
As part of the draft law cur­rently be­fore the Pol­ish par­lia­ment (i.e. the Se­jm) amend­ing the En­ergy Law and the Law on Re­new­able En­ergy Sources, the Min­istry of Cli­mate and the En­vir­on­ment has pro­posed...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
25/05/2023
Po­land drafts bill to en­cour­age in­vest­ment in bio­gas and bio­meth­ane pro­jects
The Pol­ish gov­ern­ment has ad­op­ted a bill amend­ing the Re­new­able En­ergy Sources Act that is ex­pec­ted to fa­cil­it­ate the de­vel­op­ment of bio­gas and bio­meth­ane pro­jects. This draft le­gis­la­tion, which was sent...
Law-Now Commercial
25/05/2023
North Sea Strikes and Force Ma­jeure
The latest in a series of strikes by oil & gas work­ers in the North Sea con­tin­ues to test the op­er­a­tion and ef­fic­acy of force ma­jeure (“FM”) pro­vi­sions in oil and gas in­dustry con­tracts.There is no...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
22/05/2023
Po­land pro­poses new reg­u­la­tions on elec­tri­city dir­ect lines, of­fer­ing op­por­tun­it­ies...
On 18 April 2023, the Pol­ish gov­ern­ment ap­proved the draft act amend­ing the En­ergy Law, which in­cludes changes to the reg­u­la­tion on elec­tri­city dir­ect lines. The draft has come in the wake of mar­ket cri­ti­cism...
Law-Now Real Estate
12/05/2023
Con­sulta­tion on the EU’s in­ter­im emis­sions re­duc­tion tar­get for 2040
Un­til 24 June 2023 the European Com­mis­sion is con­sult­ing to gath­er views on the EU’s cli­mate tar­get for 2040.Since the Com­mu­nic­a­tion of the European Green Deal in late 2019, there have been a raft of...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
10/05/2023
At last: in­valid­ity and re­voc­a­tion ac­tions now avail­able be­fore TM of­fices...
One of the most sig­ni­fic­ant in­nov­a­tions in­tro­duced by the EU Trade Mark Dir­ect­ive 2015/2436 (the so-called trade mark re­form pack­age) was the re­quire­ment for all EU coun­tries to im­ple­ment – where not...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
09/05/2023
Oil & Gas and Geo­therm­al: like steam, the oil & gas in­dustry could rise...
With a sig­ni­fic­ant num­ber of in­dustry con­fer­ences tar­get­ing geo­therm­al be­ing held around the world this year, the oil & gas in­dustry is start­ing to re­cog­nise the po­ten­tial of geo­therm­al as an en­ergy source...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
27/04/2023
The De­part­ment for En­ergy Se­cur­ity & Net Zero re­sponds to the REMA Con­sulta­tion
In March 2023 the De­part­ment for En­ergy Se­cur­ity & Net Zero (“DES­NZ”) pub­lished a sum­mary of the re­sponses (the “Con­sulta­tion Re­sponse”) to the REMA Con­sulta­tion (which we pre­vi­ously dis­cussed...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
26/04/2023
Po­land pub­lishes new draft Bio­gas Act
On 5 April 2023, the first draft of a new le­gis­la­tion in Po­land de­signed to fa­cil­it­ate the pre­par­a­tion and de­vel­op­ment of ag­ri­cul­tur­al bio­gas pro­jects was pub­lished on the gov­ern­ment web­site. The aim...
Law-Now Real Estate
24/04/2023
EU hy­dro­gen reg­u­la­tion tak­ing shape: de­vel­op­ments in March 2023
As the reg­u­lat­ory land­scape for hy­dro­gen pro­jects evolves at na­tion­al levels, a num­ber of key pub­lic­a­tions in March 2023 are seek­ing to shape how low-car­bon hy­dro­gen will be defined and reg­u­lated in EU...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
21/04/2023
Po­land is­sues new ob­lig­a­tions on en­ergy per­form­ance cer­ti­fic­ates in April
On 28 April 2023, the amend­ment to Act of 29 Au­gust 2014 on the en­ergy per­form­ance of build­ings and the Act of 7 Ju­ly 1994 Con­struc­tion Law, im­ple­ment­ing the Dir­ect­ive on the en­ergy per­form­ance of build­ings...
Law-Now Real Estate
13/04/2023
EU re­form of elec­tri­city mar­ket design: the Com­mis­sion's pro­pos­als
On 14 March 2023, the European Com­mis­sion (“Com­mis­sion”) pub­lished its le­gis­lat­ive pro­pos­als to re­form the EU elec­tri­city mar­ket in a two-fold way:by amend­ing Reg­u­la­tion (EU) No 1227/2011 of the European...
Law-Now Energy & Climate Change
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