Dr Lena-Sophie Deißler

Practice groups

Sector groups

Expertise

Public law
Energy law
Project development and project management law
Corporate law/M&A

Lena-Sophie advises and represents clients on all aspects of project development. Her practice focuses on energy projects, in particular wind and solar parks. She advises on all energy law, civil law and administrative law issues (in particular specialised planning and environmental law as well as building planning and building regulations law). She also advises on project structuring, co-operations, contract drafting and project transactions.

Recent work

Advising buyers and sellers on the acquisition and sale of renewable energy plants including project rights (e.g. ENOVA Group, Allgäuer Überlandwerk GmbH)
Project-related advice on the development, approval and construction of numerous wind farm, solar and battery storage projects (e.g. Eco Stor GmbH)

Curriculum vitae

Studied law with a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation at the University of Freiburg and the University of Paris XII Val-De-Marne, 2008 to 2014
Research Assistant at the University of Freiburg, 2014 to 2016
PhD on European administrative law at the University of Freiburg, 2014 to 2017
Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Munich, including seats at the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group in the Bavarian State Parliament, 2017 to 2019
In-house lawyer with a project developer in the renewable energy sector, 2019 to 2021
Lawyer at Kapellmann since 2022

Further qualifications and memberships

Member of the Legal Advisory Board of the German Wind Energy Association
Member of the Energy Law Working Group of the German Energy Storage Association (BVES)
Member of Women of New Energies e.V.