Mrs Léone Klapwijk > Van Doorne > Amsterdam, Netherlands > Lawyer Profile
Van Doorne Offices
JACHTHAVENWEG 121
1081 KM AMSTERDAM
PO BOX 75265, 1070 AG AMSTERDAM
Netherlands
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Mrs Léone Klapwijk
Work Department
Dispute Resolution, Court Litigation, European & Competition Law, Sustainability, Cartel Prohibition, Energy, Industry & Renewables, Real Estate & Construction, Government & Education
Position
Léone’s principal areas of practice are energy regulatory law (comprising of electricity, natural gas, heat and hydrogen), energy transactions, large-scale energy projects, energy contracts and energy (regulatory) litigation.
Léone represents a wide spectrum of participants in the energy markets. Her clients include large (heat) supply and production companies in the regulated markets, companies in the chemical and industrial sectors, transmission and distribution system operators. She has extensive experience in solving and handling issues in the field of regulated and non-regulated (CO2, fuels, hydrogen) utilities. Léone is at her best when (together with the client team working on multidisciplinary, complex energy projects.
In addition, Léone is (co-)author of several legal journal publications on various energy law topics and lecturer on electricity and gas regulation at the Postgraduate course ‘Climate change and energy transition’ at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam.
Career
2020: Partner Van Doorne
Languages
Dutch, English
Memberships
Author Netherlands Journal of Energy Law
Member of the Dutch Energy Law Association (NeVER)
Lawyer Rankings
Netherlands > Energy
(Next Generation Partners: regulatory)The ‘pleasant team’ at Van Doorne has experience advising its clients on both transactional and regulatory energy-related matters spanning hydrogen, carbon, heat, electricity and LNG. Léone Klapwijk has expertise in regulatory aspects of energy matters, whilst Diederik Maessen is transaction-focused; the pair oversee the practice. Other key practitioners to note include regulatory expert counsel Victor van Ahee, who has experience giving advice in connection with the energy transition alongside Klapwijk, and M&A-focused senior associate Yannie Lam, who joined in January 2023 from Eversheds Sutherland.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Mediation
- Fraud and white-collar crime
- Industry focus: Food
- Industry focus: Information technology
- Industry focus: retail
- Insurance
Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: arbitration
- Energy
- Environment and planning
- EU and competition
- Industry focus: healthcare and life sciences
- Investment funds
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Banking and finance: Borrower side
- Banking and finance: lender or arranger side
- Employment
- Project finance and PFI
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Financial services regulatory
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Private equity
- Dispute resolution: class actions