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Dr Christian Schnell

+48 22 242 51 36 christian.schnell@dentons.com

Work Department

Energy and Natural Resources

Position

Christian Schnell is a partner, Head of the Energy & Natural Resources practice team in Dentons’ Warsaw office and Co-Head of the Europe Energy group. He also practices in the Firm’s Munich office.

Christian has more than 20 years of experience in advising on developments, acquisitions, disposals, EPCs, PPAs and heat supply agreements in the renewable energy sector in Poland, Central-Eastern and Southeast Europe. Christian has a varied client base, advising direct investors, renewable energy and infrastructure funds, private equity and private debt, international developers and financial institutions in respect of development, construction and operational projects.

Christian has been leading transactions on numerous energy projects and has broad experience of premium support schemes, but also non-subsidy renewable energy projects, mainly onshore wind and ground-mounted solar PV projects. He has a profound knowledge about energy markets, strategic market forecasts and sector integration technologies. Christian has also longstanding experience with offshore project development and advises since many years on heat investments and heat supply contracts.