Brochures
Financing of broadband expansion in Germany
2019
Dr. Christian Knütel
PartnerHamburg
Email christian.knuetel@hoganlovells.com
Phone +49 40 419 93 508
LanguagesEnglish, Italian, French, German, Spanish
Practice groupFinance
Recommended lawyer for Project Finance and Development Practice
Best Lawyers Germany, 2013–2015
Christian Knütel's broad international project practice covers all stages of energy and infrastructure projects, from works, supply and service contracts, and project financing to post-construction litigation and project M&A. Especially in the PPP/infrastructure and onshore and offshore wind sectors, Christian is a recognized authority, having worked on a big variety of major domestic and international projects.
Christian is always up to speed with the technical background of projects and the current trends on project and finance contracts. He works closely with the firm's regulatory, banking, arbitration and M&A teams, and coordinates cross-border projects with overseas colleagues. In addition to various other publications on project and energy/infrastructure topics, he is co-editor and author of the legal textbook on project finance and PPP (Rechtshandbuch Projektfinanzierung und PPP), 2nd edition 2008, and author of the offshore wind chapter in the new standard textbook on capital projects (Rechtshandbuch Anlagenbau), Munich 2015.
Awards and recognitions
2014
Clients praise his "ability to understand the business we do and also to drive things forward and give correct advice."
Chambers
2015
Clients say: "He performed an absolutely outstanding job of getting people on board. He is excellent at keeping calm under intense pressure, especially during negotiations, where he did a really great job."
Chambers Europe
Education and admissions
Education
Second State Exam in Law, Berlin, 2001
Dr. iur., Universität Hamburg, 1999
First State Exam in Law, Universität Hamburg, 1997
University of Rome, 1995
University of Freiburg, 1994
Memberships
DIS Deutsche Institution fur Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit
Representative experience
Advising a project company on the further development of a 400 MW offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
Advising a major utility on the participation in a tender for the development and construction of a major offshore wind farm in Denmark.
Advising manufacturers of offshore wind turbines on the negotiations of various supply and service contracts for five projects in Germany, Belgium and France.
Advising a development bank on the participation in the financing of the offshore wind projects Global Tech I and Borkum West II.
Advising the financing banks on the project financing of various onshore wind farms in Germany.
Advising several contractors on more than 30 sea cable projects (inner array cable and export cable) in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the UK.
Advising a major utility on the negotiations of several project contracts with regard to an offshore wind farm in the North Sea.
Advising contractors on claims and counterclaims based on the delayed and disrupted execution of various A/C and D/C offshore grid connection systems.
Advising the lenders to a consortium of sponsors on the A model A6.
Advising DZ Bank, Deka Bank, and NIBC Bank NV as MLAs on the project financing of the PPP project "JVA Bremervörde".
Advising sponsors on each of the A model projects since 2005, in case of the A8I (autobahnplus) and the A9 (Via Gateway Thüringen GmbH & Co. KG) up to financial close.
Latest thinking and events
Newsletters and Alerts
German Government takes a closer look at international investments into Germany's "critical infrastructure"
February 2019
Hogan Lovells Publications
Contracting structures and risk allocation in offshore wind projects in Asia
April 2018
