Kirsten specialises in energy law and has extensive experience in the energy and industrial sector. She acts as counsel to various energy companies and industrial companies in respect of projects, transactions, commercial contracts, joint ventures, regulatory and financial matters. Legal 500 has designated Kirsten to the Hall of Fame in the field of Energy: Transactional. She is listed in Band 1 by Chambers & Partners for her efforts in Energy & Natural Resources.
As a true sector specialist she has an extensive track record in respect of:
- projects and project development including wind parks (onshore and offshore), power plants, biogas and industrial plants (e.g. steam or hydrogen plants, LNG terminals, CCS, pipelines etc.);
- M&A transactions including controlled auctions for wind parks, interests in offshore gas fields and pipelines, industrial restructurings and private M&A transactions in the sector;commercial contracting including (corporate) power purchase agreements, (industrial) gas supply agreements (including natural gas, biofuel, steam, hydrogen, nitrogen etc.), transport and storage agreements, tolling agreements and utilities agreements (including water and heat);
- joint ventures in the energy sector, e.g. in relation to wind parks, power plants, upstream gas projects, biofuel plants (biogas, bio diesel, SAF etc.), circular economy plants and for infrastructure and storage projects such as CCS, LNG etc.;
- regulatory matters including connection and transportation issues, third party access, gas quality matters, balancing, CO2 emissions trading, SDE subsidy aspects and EU Energy Regulations;
- real estate aspects including pipeline and site user issues and lease and ownership aspects.
