Overview
Jens is a frequently recommended lawyer for transactions and regulatory advice in the energy and infrastructure sectors.
Jens focuses on corporate deals, advising utilities and investors on M&A transactions, services deals and complex group restructurings, alongside advising financial investors, utilities, lenders and grid operators on asset-level transactions, including the full range of renewables such as wind farm, solar power, geothermal and hydrogen projects.
In addition to his energy and infrastructure work, Jens is renowned for advising tech companies and VC investors on financing rounds and related M&A work.
Quotations & Rankings
Clients appreciate his “outstanding expertise” and describe him as “smart and solution-oriented” (JUVE 2023/2024). Jens regularly lectures at the Euroforum (Handelsblatt Media Group) on M&A contracts.
Experience
Jens has led on many market-leading deals. These include advising:
M&A General Energy:
- E.ON on the acquisition of innogy SE and the comprehensive sale and its renewables business to RWE AG, and on its comprehensive corporate restructuring to spin off a major part of the group under a separate listed entity, Uniper SE.
- Westenergie: advising on its cooperation and business combination with RheinEnergie AG to realign and strengthen its existing cooperation in the Rhineland region in the areas of energy infrastructure, municipal utility shareholdings and business models for urban and regional centers.
- European Energy Exchange on the corporate restructuring of energy spot exchange EPEX Spot SE based in Paris.
Wind Offshore:
- Glenmont Partners on the acquisition of a 50%-stake in the 900 MW offshore wind farm project Borkum Riffgrund 3 and on the acquisition of a 50%-stake in the offshore wind farm project Gode Wind 3 from Ørsted as well as on the acquisition of a 25% stake in the offshore wind farm project Gode Wind 1 from Global Infrastructure Partners.
- Siemens Financial Services on the acquisition of 20% shares in the offshore wind farm Gemini in the Dutch North Sea.
- a group of investors, comprising Marguerite Fund, Siemens Financial Services and Danish pension funds Industries Pensions and PKA, on the acquisition and the financing of the offshore wind farm Butendiek in the German North Sea.
- UniCredit Bank on the sale of Bard Offshore 1, the first commercial German offshore wind farm, in an auction process to Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets.
- RWE Innogy on the sale of 85% of shares in the offshore wind farm project “Nordsee One” to a Canadian investor.
Wind Onshore:
- Allianz Global Investors on three big onshore wind portfolio acquisitions in Germany and France.
- a German developer on the acquisition of a 250 MW onshore wind development project in Mongolia.
- Gothaer Versicherungen on the acquisition of shares in a 85 MW wind farm project in Sweden.
Tech/Venture Capital:
- BlackRock: equity investment of over USD 200 million in ENVIRIA, through its Global Renewable Power IV (GRP IV) fund.
- Reliance Industries: Series C financing round as lead investor in NexWafe GmbH
- Mercuria Energy on the series C2 financing round for The Mobility House AG.
- Sensirion Holding AG: Acquisition of AI machine diagnosis start-up AiSight GmbH
- Canva: on the acquisition of a German software start-up.
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