Sayenko Kharenko, working with Latham & Watkins and Westerberg & Partners, has successfully represented Ukraine before the Svea Court of Appeal in setting aside the challenge of a USD 6 billion Energy Charter Treaty award.

If your company sells products that contain, have been fed with or have been made using cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soya or wood, then your company should most likely start preparing for compliance with the EU Deforestation Regulation[1]. The same applies if others in your company's supply chain produce or sell these commodities or related products.

Klaudia Krolak and Konrad Kosicki have become Shareholders at Greenberg Traurig's Warsaw office.

Rymarz Zdort Maruta has advised Qualitas Energy on financing the construction of a 28-megawatt-peak photovoltaic project in Poland, granted to a company from the Suncatcher group.

As part of the EU Gas and Hydrogen Package, Directive (EU) 2024/1788 of 13 June 2024 ("Internal Gas Market Directive; IGMD") makes provisions for the first time on the phase-out of gas by network operators through the decommissioning of gas networks. Article 57 IGMD stipulates that gas distribution system operators ("DSO") must develop network decommissioning plans ("NDP") if a reduction in natural gas demand is foreseeable. The competent national authorities assess whether the NDP for the distribution network meets the principles set out in the IGMD.

Schoenherr, working with Ashurst, has advised Aviva Investors on the acquisition of a 51% majority shareholding in Connected Infrastructure Capital.