Legal Alliance Launches New Energy Law Practice

Legal Alliance formally announced the start of its new service segment, an energy law practice, on 6 October 2008.

The company has been testing ground in areas allied to the energy sector as a legal advisor to several large clients acting in this sphere for several years.

The accession of the new partner, Oleksiy Bezhevets, and retention of Denis Vasiliev as a new senior layer opened the opportunity to launch a new full-scale practice at the company that will rely on these gentlemen’s vast previous experience with members of the Ukrainian wholesale energy market (WEM).

Services offered by Legal Alliance within this practice will include comprehensive legal support of power and energy company business, inter alia in matters arising out of their relationships as WEM members.

Rundown of the new practice is offered to the attention of our clients and partners at our official web site at www.l-a.com.ua.

Amid efforts to introduce the new practice to the public Legal Alliance will be launching a special social project acting as the general partner for the students’ round table discussion “Energy Law Trends in Ukraine,” to run on 11 October 2008.

The event is organised under the auspices of the Ukrainian Lawyers’ Association.

The round table aims to dwell on theoretical and practical aspects of energy law, targeting to provide for efficient use of this new knowledge in further academic and practical activity.

Furthermore, the fact that energy law is not a compulsory discipline in academic curricula of law schools makes the subject of the discussion still more valuable for law students.

Round table participants will be offered exclusive master classes by Legal Alliance associated partner Oleksiy Bezhevets, “Electric Power Industry Legal Aspects. Principal Concepts. Wholesale Energy Market Structure. Law Enforcement Issues,” and by the company senior lawyer Denis Vasiliev, “Conflict Aspects in Relationships within WEM.  Payment Arrears. Court Practice.”