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Dr Moritz Meister

Senior Associate

Email

moritz.meister@aoshearman.com

Phone

+1 424 512 7164

Offices

Los Angeles

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Moritz is a senior associate in our global energy and infrastructure practice and splits his time between Hamburg and Los Angeles.

Moritz advises on domestic and cross-border private and public M&A transactions, joint ventures, private equity transactions and reorganisations. His work also captures general corporate law advice. Amid his clients are leading national and international corporations and financial investors as well as midsized and family-owned companies.

In addition he offers an in-depth knowledge of the energy sector including the relevant markets and technologies as well as the regulatory framework for energy intensive industries.

Published Work

§ 47 Windenergie auf See bis 2020, Thomas Schomerus / Moritz Meister, in: Frenz/Müggenborg/Cosack/ Henning/Schomerus, Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz, Berliner Kommentare, Erich Schmidt Verlag; (a chapter on offshore wind energy in the renowned commentary for practitioners in companies, law firms and courts on different sections of the German Renewable Energy Act), (2018). Systemdienstleistungen und Erneuerbare Energien, Moritz Meister, Dissertation, Erich Schmidt Verlag; (doctoral thesis on ancillary services and renewable energy from a legal perspective), (2017). Windenergiedrachen - Rechtsfragen bei Installation und Betrieb, Thomas Schomerus / Christian Maly / Moritz Meister, ER- EnergieRecht - Zeitschrift für die gesamte Energierechtspraxis - Erich Schmidt Verlag; (paper on the legal framework for installation and operation of the innovative technology of wind energy kites), (2016). Herkunftsnachweise und verpflichtende Direktvermarktung - Die Zeit ist reif für eine differenzierte Grünstromkennzeichnung, Moritz Meister / Felix Obbelode / Thomas Kott, ER - EnergieRecht - Zeitschrift für die gesamte Energierechtspraxis - Erich Schmidt Verlag; (paper on possible enhancements to the legal framework for guarantees of origin / renewable energy certificates and the direct marketing of renewable energy via power purchase agreements), (2015). Kein Preis für Genauigkeit - Preise für Sekundärregelleistung in Deutschland diskriminierend? - Die FERC Anordnung Nr. 755 und ihre Übertragbarkeit auf das deutsche Recht der Regelleistungsmärkte, Moritz Meister / Maximilian Schneider, EnWZ - Zeitschrift für das gesamte Recht der Energiewirtschaft - C.H. Beck Verlag; (paper on FERC Order No. 755 including a comparative analysis of the respective framework for balancing power markets in the United States and Germany), (2015). Stabilizing the grid with regional virtual power plants, Moritz Meister, in: Peeters/Schomerus, Renewable Energy Law in the EU, Edward Elgar Publishing, (2014).

Qualifications

Admissions

Foreign Legal Consultant, California 2023 Admitted as German Rechtsanwalt, 2017

Academic

Second German Law Degree, 2017

Dr. iur., Lüneburg, 2017

M.Sc., Lüneburg, 2012

First German Law Degree, 2010

LL.B., Bucerius Law School, 2009

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.