Navigate Belgium’s energy infrastructure complexity

We translate complex regulatory frameworks into project specific implications, providing clear guidance through Belgium’s energy infrastructure regulatory landscape.

• Deep expertise in EU climate law and renewable energy regulations
• Electricity supply requirements and state aid rules navigation
• Environmental law, permitting, and grid connection expertise
• Proactive regulatory engagement and compliance strategy.

• Clear regulatory pathway
• Risk mitigation 
• Faster approvals 
• Bankable structure

The ‘dynamic’ Deloitte Legal evidences a ‘diversity of expertise’ across the energy industry… The strength of the Deloitte Legal team in the energy sector is the diversity of topics which can be answered upon and the ability to tailor the contracts to the project needs without overly complicating its set-up.

We create bankable legal structures through expert contract drafting and negotiation, delivered with a pragmatic, respectful style that accelerates agreement.

• Sophisticated risk allocation and contract structuring
• Comprehensive due diligence and multi-bank financing expertise
• Pragmatic negotiation approach that reduces friction
• Claims management and execution risk mitigation.

• Faster financial close
• Lower financing costs
• Smoother negotiations
• Reduced execution risk.

What I appreciate about Deloitte Legal is its ability to turn complex legal notions into understandable and digestible terms … Deloitte Legal has a solid team and can collaborate effectively with other law firms in its network, which is very helpful.

We maximise project economics through integrated grant capture and financing optimisation, with our multidisciplinary team (legal, financing, grants) working together seamlessly.

• Comprehensive grant and tax incentive identification
• Strategic application navigation and EU Commission interaction
• Optimisation and quantification of profitability metrics via integration of grants, quasi equity, junior and senior debt, and credit enhancements into the capital structure
• Coordinated legal, financing, and grant optimisation strategy
• Tailored financing strategy to ensure seamless and frictionless financing process.

• Higher ROI
• Optimised capital structure
• Integrated strategy
• Reduced financing costs and smooth financing process.

Proven track record across BESS, wind, solar, CCS and large infrastructure projects, delivering measurable improvements in project economics through strategic grant optimisation and integrated financing approaches.

We minimise execution risk through proactive legal
partnership, managing the complexities that emerge during
project delivery with pragmatic problem-solving.

• Comprehensive contract management and variation handling
• Expert claims management and dispute resolution
• Ongoing regulatory compliance monitoring
• Lender relationship management and reporting E2E approach: prepare marketing materials and financial models, reach out to the market, facilitate financing approval process, negotiate term sheets and documentation, execute to financial close.

• Proactive risk management
• Smooth project delivery
• Protected interests
• Lender confidence.

The firm has a blooming practice in the energy and infrastructure field, with the team working on large-scale public infrastructure projects.

They have a high level of know-how, offer smooth communication in various languages and, above all, can think along with the commercial requirements of the client’s internal business.