Thorsten Eggert

Thorsten is a member of the Corporate Practice Area and the Energy Industry Group. His practice includes advising companies and financial institutions on corporate transactions and financing as well as on general corporate law issues primarily in the field of renewable energy.

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Career

Since 2020

Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2021	Master of Laws, Stellenbosch University
2020	Admitted as a lawyer
2020	Second State Examination

2017 – 2019	Legal clerkship at the higher regional court of Hamburg with stages at leading international law firms in Hamburg and the San Francisco Bay Area
2017	First State Examination
2012 – 2017	Law studies at the University of Hamburg
2010 – 2012	Law studies at Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel

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Additional languages

English

Expertise

Services and Groups Corporate/M&A & capital markets M&A and joint ventures

Sectors Energy & infrastructure Renewable energy & cleantech Energy storage/Power-to-X Energy contracts Cross border energy & infrastructure M&A

Experience

CEE Group on the acquisition of the 154 MWp solar park project Döllen

Comprehensive legal advice to the asset manager CEE Group, specialised in renewable energies, on the acquisition of the 154 MWp solar park project Döllen as well as legal advice on complex construction agreements, various issues concerning the permitting and the zoning plan procedures as well as in connection with the sale of the electricity to be generated.

Acquisition of the first German “onshore wind+storage”-project and respective PPA

Taylor Wessing advised CEE Group on a special renewable energy transaction. CEE Group acquired the only "onshore wind+storage" project in Germany to date from juwi including a PPA contract with MVV Trading GmbH. juwi was awarded the contract for this innovative project in the first nationwide innovation tender by the German Federal Network Agency in September 2020. The electricity is reimbursed with a fixed market bonus as well as with a so-called Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) that juwi developed jointly with MVV Trading GmbH. Hamburg-based CEE Group has acquired project and PPA.

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