Dr. Klaus-Dieter Borchardt
Biography
Professor Doctor Klaus-Dieter Borchardt is a senior energy adviser with the European & Competition Law Practice Group in Baker McKenzie's Brussels office. He joined the Firm in 2020.
Klaus-Dieter worked for 33 years at the European Commission, including four years at the European Court of Justice. When he left the European Commission, he was deputy director-general for energy.
Klaus-Dieter is also an expert in EU law, having spent 12 years in the Commissions' Legal Service where he was responsible for state aid, internal markets and agriculture.
He has been a teaching professor at Bavarian Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg, Germany since 2001. He is also a senior research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies (OIES) and an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School (CBS). He is the author of a standard textbook on EU law and the co-editor of a commentary on the EU treaties.
Practice Focus
Representative Legal Matters
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Executing a Governance scrutiny for an IT service company which intends to enlarge its business into new energy areas
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Advised a global green energy company on key aspects of the emerging EU regulatory framework for renewable hydrogen and ammonia and the import schemes.
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Advised a global investment company on the overarching energy and climate framework under the Green Deal, with a particular focus on renewable energy sources, ETS, hydrogen, CC(U)S and energy efficiency.
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Advised multiple clients on the EU's recent energy price crisis, including identifying existing legal means to adapt to such high prices and contributing to the public debate on national and EU-level policy design to respond to the crisis.
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Advised a multinational investor group on the analysis of the general electricity market framework, and the framework for renewable electricity subsidies and public support on an EU-wide level.
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Advised a consortium of companies on the current and future European framework for underground hydrogen storage activities in Europe.
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Assisted a multinational gas company with the competition aspect of the strategy for future investment in both hydrogen networks and hydrogen production activities.
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Successfully assisted a large EU energy company in its application to obtain national funding for its new renewable hydrogen production project, using an innovative state-aid approach (involving the framework for Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI)).
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Assisted a national energy company in the designation of a pumped-storage plant as a critical cross-border energy infrastructure at EU level to enable this project to receive EU funding.
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Assisted a group of electricity power producers in examining the compatibility of the upcoming Greek electricity market reform with existing EU energy law.
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Assisted one of Europe's biggest real estate companies in the development of a company strategy for the revision of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and the Energy efficiency Directive.
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Assisted in developing the design of and analysing the political and constitutional feasibility of implementing a national regulatory framework for hydrogen, particularly hydrogen infrastructure, pre-empting European legislation.
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Assisted a large international oil and gas company in developing its legal and policy strategy with the aim of adapting to the EU's energy and climate agenda, including in particular its strategy in relation to the deployment of renewables and low-carbon hydrogen projects.
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Assisted in the national process for the design and implementation of a subsidy scheme to compensate large industrial companies for indirect costs linked to the penetration of renewable electricity on the national grid.
Education
- Free University of Berlin (Dr. jur.) (1985)
- High Court of Hamburg and Schleswig Holstein (State Examination, Second Degree in Law) (1985)
- University of Hamburg (State Examination, First Degree in Law) (1979)
Languages
- English
- French
- German