The breadth of experience we have in this area means that we are able to give an up-to-the-minute understanding of the gas, electricity and water utilities sectors and their unique commercial drivers.

Our experience in the utilities market is considerable. We specialise in acting for companies on regulatory and licensing regimes and those at the interface between regulatory regimes and competition legislation.

We also work with utilities companies covering areas such as:

• compliance to anti-competitive agreements and abuse of market dominance
• price controls, infrastructure access and other regulatory compliance issues arising under the UK utility licensing regimes
• application of the public procurement rules to utility companies
• application of EU directives
• state aid laws.

Our clients include funders, developers and operators of power plants, operators of electricity distribution and transmission networks, major EPC contractors, energy traders and specialist consultants in this sector, as well as significant users of energy at utilities. In the offshore sector we advise exploration and production companies and contractors.