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Janson
CHAUSSÉE DE LA HULPE 187
1170 BRUSSELS
Belgium
CHAUSSÉE DE LA HULPE 187
1170 BRUSSELS
Belgium
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Guy Block
Work Department
- Energy, climate change and mobility
- Energy law (nuclear, gas, electricity, renewable energies)
- Transport law
Position
Partner
With more than thirty years of experience in energy and transport law, Guy Block heads Janson’s Energy, climate change and mobility Department. Among other things, Guy has been involved in the liberalization of the electricity and gas markets in European Union member states, including Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Romania as well as Turkey, Iran, Morocco, Qatar, Madagascar and Tajikistan. He is the author of various legislative and regulatory texts. He has also participated in several international conferences and published a large number of articles and books on energy law.
His main areas of activity are the liberalisation of the energy (electricity and gas) and transport (rail, air and road) markets. Guy regularly acts before the civil and administrative courts, as well as before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has extensive experience in assessing, drafting and interpreting legislation relating to the liberalisation of energy markets, drafting energy supply contracts, B.O.T contracts for power plants (gas turbines, wind farms, nuclear, coal), LNG, pipeline cases, as well as in drafting financial contracts.
Guy acts as a national and international arbitrator before the ICC, LCIA, IAI and ASA. Guy is born in 1959 and obtained the degrees of Doctor of Laws (PHD), Master of Laws (LLM), Master Degree in Transport and Certificate of English Law after having obtained a Licence en Droit at the University of Liège.
References
- Assistance to Belgian federal and regional governments with the implementation of the Protocol of Kyoto and the transposition into federal and regional law of multiple European Directives
- Assistance to the government of Tajikistan with reforming its energy sector with financing from the Asian Development Bank
- Assistance to the Belgian regulator with tariff structures in the electricity and gas sectors
- Advice on close market issues to new entrants in the Belgian energy markets (access and access responsible contracts, contacts with regulatory authorities)
- Advice to a major gas supplier on access to and participation in the Zeebrugge Hub
- Assistance to a gas and electricity supplier with obtaining purchased green certificates
- Advice to major Belgian industrials on the acquisition of a significant share of electricity production capacity output (approximately 14 TWh/year) in return for a 20-year investment, and on the possible erection of an 800 MW clean coal power plant
- Assistance and strategic advice to a foreign investor on the construction of a high-efficiency cogeneration unit in Romania
- Assistance with the drafting of contracts and general conditions for supply of gas and electricity to industrial, small and medium sized and residential consumers at the Belgian federal and regional levels
- Assistance to major gas actors with due diligence on up-stream LNG installation financing
- Drafting of legislation relating to the phasing out of nuclear power plants and to funding for decommissioning
- Litigation on behalf of a major electricity producer and supplier relating to electricity tariffs
- Litigation relating to renewable support in the Flemish Region (green and cogeneration certificates)
- Litigation before state courts, the Council of State and arbitration bodies relating to the opening up of the electricity market, including competition issues, green certificates, right of access, obligations of TSO…
- Establishment of a European consortium for rail transport by means of high speed lines (including financial, technical and legal issues)
- Creation of a joint venture for the establishment of a multimodal road and rail company
- Numerous legal cases relating to air transport and the CMR and Warsaw conventions (including parcel transport)
Career
- 2007 – …: Partner – Janson (Head of Energy, Climate change and Mobility Departement)
- 2003 – 2007: Partner – Lawfort (Head of the Administrative & Energy Law Department)
- 2000 – 2003: Partner – Stibbe (Energy and Transport Department)
- 1988 – 1999: Associate – Stibbe
Languages
- Mother tongue : French
- Fluent in English and Dutch
- Some basic knowledge of German and Russian
Memberships
Member of the Brussels Bar (admitted 1988) and Paris Bar (admitted 1997).
National and international arbitrator (ICC, CEPANI, SIAC, AIAC, SHIAC).
Education
- 2002: Doctorate of Law (PHD), Nice Sophia-Antipolis (France)
- 1999: Certificate in the practice of Court of Cassation (Belgium)
- 1986 – 1987: Master of Laws (LL.M.), Tulane Law School (U.S.A.)
- 1985 – 1986: Master degree in Transport, University of Antwerp U.F.S.I.A. (Belgium)
- 1985: Certificate of English Law (Maritime and Export Law), City of London Polytechnic College (U.K.)
- 1980- 1985: Law degree, University of Liège (Belgium)