Martin Geipel

Rechtsanwalt (Lawyer), Partner

Energy & Infrastructure
Regulatory and Governmental Affairs

Martin Geipel

Martin Geipel specialises in energy law. His focus is on transactions in the energy sector, regulatory advice to industrial and commercial clients, drafting and negotiating contracts in the energy sector and advice on concession award procedures and decarbonisation projects.

Projects

  • MET-Gruppe: Advising on regulatory and contractual aspects of the takeover of Gas Union's gas storage business
  • Energy company: Advising an international energy production and trading company on drafting direct marketing agreements for green power and a contract documentation for large customers as well as domestic customers
  • Royal Cosun: Advising on strategic partnership with Unilever on energy regulatory issues
  • Advising and representing Vinnolit on regulatory issues, such as the limitation of the EEG surcharge and individual network charges
  • Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: Advising on the draft of the coal phase-out law and on negotiations with the energy supply companies
  • Condor Flugdienst GmbH: Advising on emissions trading law issues during rescue in Covid 19 crisis

Distinctions

  • "Martin Geipel is a well-known player in the German market, especially for his transactional work in the energy sector.", Who's Who Legal (2022) - Power & Electricity
  • "Martin Geipel offers very competent, practical advice on energy law issues.", The Legal 500 (2022)
  • "Martin Geipel excels in energy-related law, where he delivers first-rate advice to industrial and commercial clients. He further excels in drafting and negotiating contracts.", Who's Who Legal (2022) - Renewables
  • Frequently recommended lawyer for energy law, “Excellent and pragmatic”, JUVE Handbuch (2020/2021)
  • "Martin Geipel is a respected energy lawyer in Germany, whose practice is geared towards regulatory issues pertaining to transactions and energy trading matters.", Who’s Who Legal Germany 2021 - Energy
  • Recommended as a leading lawyer for energy, Who’s Who Legal Germany (2018-2021)

Career

Studied law at the Universities of Dresden, Sussex (UK), Kiel and Berlin
At Noerr since 2009
Admitted at the Berlin Chamber of Lawyers

Memberships

  • EWeRK Institute for Energy and Competition Law in the Municipal Economy e.V. (Berlin)

Lectures

  • Tutor in energy law at the department of law at Humboldt University Berlin, 2013 - 2019
  • Green Corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), Hannover 2020
  • Delimitation of third-party volume according to Renewable Energy Sources Act, Hannover 2020
  • Energy Update Renewable Energy Act (EEG), KWKG, EnWG, EnergieStG, StromStG & Co, Munich 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • Legal framework for and contract design of Green PPAs, Berlin 2019
  • Legal framework for captive generation in 2019 - delimitation of third-party quantities, Munich 2019
  • Intelligent measurement systems in the energy sector as a basis for data-based value-added services, Munich 2018
  • EEG 2017 - New provisions of the reform in the areas of EEG levy, self-produced electricity and reductions for energy-intensive companies (Besondere Ausgleichsregelung), Königswinter 2016
  • The new CHP Act 2016 - The future promotion of CHP electricity, Berlin 2016
  • Regulatory Framework for Power-to-Heat Applications, Berlin 2015
  • Energy audits according to the Energy Services Act (EDL-G), Nuremberg 2015
  • The case of insolvency in EEG direct marketing: Contractual precautions, warning signals and options for action, Berlin 2015
  • Overview of the regulatory framework for energy storage, Frankfurt/M. 2014
  • Update on the Energy Tax and Electricity Act, Munich 2014
  • "No future for biogas and biomethane in the EEG?", Berlin 2014

Publications

  • Handbook of concession contracts and concession fees (editor with C. Kermel)
  • Chapter "Energie", Bräutigam/Kraul (eds.), Internet of Things, Legal Handbook, 2021
  • Abriss zur Änderung von Festlegungen und Genehmigungen nach § 29 Abs. 2 EnWG, Festschrift for Prof. Schwintowski, 2018
  • Aktuelle Änderungen am KWKG zum 01.01.2017, VersWirt 2/2017
  • Die Direktvermarktung nach dem KWKG 2016 (with A. Baltes), RdE 1/2017
  • Der Fall Hinkley Point C – Sonderbehandlung für Atomenergie? (with Helge Heinrich), Jaeger/Haslinger (eds), Beihilferecht Jahrbuch 2016
  • Novelle des Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungsgesetzes 2016 – ein Überblick, VersorgungsWirtschaft 2/2016
  • Aktuelle Entscheidungen des BGH zu Spannungsklauseln in Energielieferverträgen, JM 2015
  • Praxisrelevante Neuerungen der besonderen Ausgleichsregelung nach dem EEG 2014 für stromkosten- und handelsintensive Unternehmen (with Maximilian Uibeleisen), NJW 2014 and NJOZ 2014
  • Das Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz 2014 (EEG 2014) – ein Überblick über die neuen Regelungen (withJan Dinter), VersorgungsWirtschaft 8/2014
  • Die Belastung von Eigenstrom mit der EEG-Umlage nach dem EEG 2014 (with Cornelia Kermel), RdE 2014, issue 10-11
  • Die Belastung von Eigenstrom mit der EEG-Umlage nach dem EEG 2014 (withCornelia Kermel), Gundel/Lange, Energieversorgung in Zeiten der Energiewende, 2015
  • Die Übergangsbestimmungen für Bestandsanlagen im EEG 2014 (with Maximilian Uibeleisen), REE Recht der Erneuerbaren Energien 3/2014, issue 3
  • Flexstrom, TelDaFax & Co.: Fallstricke und Vorkehrungen bei Insolvenzen im Energiesektor, VersorgungsWirtschaft 10/2013
  • Neuvergabe von Strom- und Gaskonzessionen – Rechte und Pflichten für Kommunen und Bieter, VersorgungsWirtschaft 5/2013
  • Novelle des Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungsgesetzes 2012 – ein Überblick (with Ines Schmidt), VersorgungsWirtschaft 7/2012
  • Unternehmenskauf bei Produzenten erneuerbarer Energien (with T. Fedke), ZNER 2/2013
  • Ein Rechtsrahmen für das Laden von Elektromobilen (with Christian Mayer), in: mobility 2.0, 1/2012
  • Verhandlungsspielräume bei Strom- und Gaskonzessionsverträgen, VersorgungsWirtschaft 8/2011
  • Das Ende von Konzessionsverträgen – ein juristischer Hindernislauf, Gastbeitrag, Dow Jones Energy Weekly, issue 32/2010