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Vision of the law firm
Our law firm stands for excellent legal advice in complex and forward-looking areas of law. With a specialized team, we support clients in ambitious projects and their legal challenges. Our work is based on competence, strategic thinking, and responsibility for the projects and legal issues entrusted to us. We carry out our tasks with a sense of responsibility for our clients and society.
Our work is shaped by Christian values. We maintain an open approach, even with opponents, in order to enable sustainable and fair solutions.
Excellent advice on environmental, energy, and climate protection law
We assist you with all legal issues relating to your project and with dealing with individual legal issues and situations that arise in the context of our areas of expertise.
Creative and legally compliant solutions
Our expertise
We support you with targeted advice as a team, strategic management of complex issues, and pragmatic and legally compliant solutions.
We contribute our many years of experience and expertise from a wide range of contexts and projects. This applies to all issues relating to the development, planning, implementation, and operation of:
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Industrial and energy plants,
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Infrastructure facilities, and
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Climate protection measures,
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Nature conservation measures, flood protection, and waterway development.
We are actively involved in several legislative and regulatory projects related to the energy transition and the environment.
Activity
We specialize in economic administrative law. The Ohms team works primarily in environmental law, energy and climate protection law, and all related areas of civil and criminal law.
Unsere begleiteten Projekte in den letzten Jahren:
2000+
Kilometers of underground and submarine cables and overhead lines
1000+
Kilometers of other line infrastructure, including roads, pipelines, and telecommunications lines
200+
Plants for generating renewable energies, including wind, water, photovoltaics, biomass, and geothermal energy
50+
Industrial sites and waste management sites throughout Germany
Our supported projects in recent years:
Unsere begleiteten Projekte in den letzten Jahren:
Unsere begleiteten Projekte in den letzten Jahren:
Areas of law
We specialize in various areas of law, in wich we have gained more than 30 years of experience.
Our activities include in particular
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all areas of construction, planning, and environmental law, including related special areas such as mining law, landfill law, and offshore law
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infrastructure law, including issues relating to transport and transportation law,
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energy and energy contract law, including renewable energy law,
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climate protection law, in particular emissions trading law,
as well as issues
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relating to national and European state aid law and
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public compensation law (compensation and public liability law).
In other areas of law, such as real estate law, civil commercial law, or environmental criminal law, we work together with appropriately qualified colleagues from partner law firms.
Areas of activity
With our legal expertise, we primarily work in the following areas:
In the areas of law we cover, we have many years of consulting experience from numerous large-scale industrial, power plant, and infrastructure projects, including accompanying project management. We deal with numerous individual issues that arise in the operation of such plants and facilities, such as contracts for the use of infrastructure or the supply of energy (electricity, gas, heat), regulatory issues, and questions of public financing.
We regularly advise and represent project developers, operators, and the relevant authorities, often from the start of a project until the facilities are commissioned and beyond. We work throughout Germany and in other European countries, provided there is a connection to German administrative jurisdiction.
Our work for approval authorities, which have to deal with complex administrative procedures involving public participation, is also characterized by constructive cooperation between authorities, project developers, and affected parties. Here, we can not only act as legal advisors, but also contribute to a transparent process geared toward acceptance and understanding, and thus to a successful and efficient outcome.
Thanks to our experience from numerous planning approval and licensing procedures for large-scale projects, which we have supported for project developers and authorities, we can vouch for the legal certainty of final decisions. The preparation of procedural evaluations and submissions for the final decision by the authorities in complex contexts is one of our core competencies, which we regularly complete within a few weeks, regardless of whether we have supported the entire procedure.
When consensual options have been exhausted, it may be necessary to litigate or defend legal positions, such as claims for approval, claims for public compensation or replacement payments, development claims, grid connection or usage claims, claims arising from infrastructure contracts, or defense against unlawful conflicting plans or projects.
The distribution of approval decisions, side by side with the defendant authorities, is also playing an increasingly important role in this context.
Our forensic activities relate to the administrative courts of all instances, the regional and higher regional courts, and the antitrust senate of the Federal Court of Justice.
Our main focus is on helping out and supporting legislative processes. Our specialties are at the center of political discussions and legislation in the 21st century. We've got the legal know-how needed to make political goals happen, plus the experience to bring it all into the political opinion-forming process.
For those responsible in companies and organizations, reliable compliance with applicable law is of particular importance. In recent years, environmental and energy law has also taken on a special role, including in the public sphere.
Together with those responsible in companies and building on existing compliance structures, we develop reliable compliance systems for the specialist areas we advise on.
Within a company or team, and also between several companies, mediation processes are often an effective means of improving processes and resolving disputes.
In recent years, lawyers from our firm have successfully participated in mediation proceedings, even in areas of business outside our legal expertise.
Lawyers
Our team of lawyers
Advises on planning approval procedures under energy law and issues of the administrative regulation of commerce related to the civil law, especially in the field of energy law and energy contract law.
Advises on environmental, planning and energy law issues as well as on all areas of economic administrative law.
Advises on all areas of commercial administrative law and focuses on complex infrastructure projects in planning approval procedures.