Robert Lane
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Work Department
Energy and utilities.
Position
Partner advising on matters relating to energy, concentrating on electricity and gas and also water; specialises in restructuring, privatisation/M&A, sales and on regulatory and legal regimes generally, both in the UK and overseas; acts for National Grid Transco and took a leading role in the restructuring of the England and Wales electricity system, including devising the Grid Code with NGC and in revising the market to introduce the NETA, CUSC and now BETTA; also acts for Northern Ireland Electricity Plc, having a leading role in the restructuring and in the recent introduction of a new market to meet the requirements of the European TPA Directive and the current All Island markets introduction; continuing work for both includes advising on regulatory, commercial and operational matters; also has worked with other UK electricity utilities including DNOs and companies contracting with electricity utilities; has worked extensively on the European TPA Directive implementation in a number of countries. Overseas work has included advising in Australia, the US, Canada, New Zealand, India, the Philippines, South Africa, Greece, Ireland, Russia and Slovakia, where he recently sold the generation. Other overseas work includes preparing the new electricity legislation and structure for Saudi Arabia, and recently he advised on establishing a regional electricity market in the Balkans and the new electricity law and market in Slovakia.
Career
Articled Slaughter and May; qualified 1982; partner McKenna & Co 1990; former co-chairman of the Utilities Committee of IBA; chairman of the UKTI Power Sector Advisory Group; executive member of BEA and Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies. Publications: various articles; speaker at conferences worldwide; appointed CBE 2001.
Member
Law Society; International Bar Association; chairman of the UK Government Power Sector Advisory Group; the Bentham Club; board member of the Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies; City Club.
Education
Buckhurst Hill; University College, London (1979 LLB Hons).
Leisure
Family.
Practice Areas
Corporate and commercial; Energy and natural resources; M&A
