Practices Energy

Electric power and thermal power

• Prevent and resolve conflicts
• Developing effective contractual links
• Legal advice on complex issues of adopting energy legislation
• Develop contracts on electric power sale and purchase, transmission, equipment maintenance
• Act on out-of-court remedies (arbitration proceedings)
• Develop internal company regulations
• Forecast risks associated with performing contractual obligations
• Build an effective system to ensure performance of obligations
• Prepare opinions, procedural guidelines and recommendations on new rules adopted in the sector (new electric power market, new thermal power market)
• Protect property rights of power entities and consumers when the power resources supplied/consumed are of substandard quality
• Support power conservation projects using renewable energy sources
• Direct legal advice to consumers of electric and thermal power
• Building defense again refusal to perform power supply contracts, calculation of non-contractual, off-the-meter consumption of electric and thermal power

Utility hook-up/connection

• Legal advice regarding issues of access to networks when hooking up/connecting to power facilities
• Develop schemes of interaction between transaction participants
• Oppose high-pressure sales with demonstrably unfavorable contract terms and conditions
• Draft/amend model form contracts
• Develop model regulations on cooperation with subscribers
• Resolve conflicts associated with utility hook-up/connection

Antitrust regulation

• Represent clients in disputes arising out of antimonopoly laws
• Prepare inquiries, claims and complaints addressed to antitrust agencies. Track inquiries pending receipt of response, clarifications
• Resolve disputes regarding abuse of a dominant market position, challenge decisions and orders in court
• Resolve disputes out of evasion of contract execution / high-pressure sales with unfavorable terms
• Address violations of antimonopoly laws during utility hook-up
• Audit transactions and activities for compliance with antimonopoly laws

Tariff regulation

• Legal advice on issues of price determination and application of tariffs (costs)
• Settlement of disputes between electric power entities and regional tariff services
• Representation of clients in court disputes on establishing or abolishing tariffs

Wholesale and retail electric energy and power markets, thermal power market

• Dispute resolution regarding
• Payment of the cost of electric power according to regulated and unregulated prices
• Contracts for fee-based services to transmit electric power
• Recovery of damages during limitation/failure of electric power supply
• Payment of the cost of thermal power, services to transmit thermal power
• Adoption of binding status (guaranteed supplier, consolidated thermal power supplier)
• Confirmed thermal power supply schedule

• Legal advice on operations on the wholesale and retail electric energy and power markets:
• Act on entry into the electric power wholesale market
• Functioning of the retail markets
• Pricing issues
• Prepare, execute and perform contracts of various levels

Oil and gas sector

• Advise on projects for field development plans
• Advise on raw material processing
• Advise on the purchase and sale of petroleum products and gas
• Represent clients’ in disputes in the oil and gas sector
• Represent clients in government relations
• Advise on projects to construct and maintain oil and gas pipelines
• Legal advice on industrial safety during subsoil use and offshore development
• Advise on licensing the rights to exploit natural resources