NAFCO-Law & Tax Advisers - Power energy practice

Power energy practice

One of the main directions of the activity of NAFCO – Law & Tax Advisers from the date of its foundation is the legal support of the enterprises of the fuel and power complex.

The specialists of the energy law practice provide with the counseling on the issues of the energy law and the key support of the projects of the various complexity, they also successfully represent the Clients’ interests in the disputes and conflicts regulation in the area of production, transition, purchasing and consumption of the electric energy (power) in the pre-court order as well as in the arbitration (reference) courts.

Some cases, successfully conducted by our specialists, had unprecedented significance for the Russian market of the electric energy with effect on the further legal practice.

Services

The counseling on the issues of the energy legislation

The written and oral counseling on the issues of the application of the energy legislation and the related law branches.
The due diligence of the current activity with regard to the prevention and identification of the potential risks, affecting the financial and economic activity of the company.
The elaboration of the legal positions in the issues of the energy legislation considering the mature law-applied practice and the position of the state bodies in the area of the energy legislation and tariffs, as well as of the bodies of antimonopoly regulation.
The preparation of the legal conclusions upon specific disputable situations, interesting the client, along with the issues of the practical application of various standards.
The conduct of seminars on the actual issues of the energy legislation.

Consulting services in the pre-court disputing

The counseling on the issues of the wholesale and retail markets of the electric energy.
The counseling on the issues of the tariffs setting and the application of the tariffs in the heat power and energy industry.
The legal analysis of the court dispute prospective (available on any stage of the dispute).
The disputing of the non-regulatory legal acts of the controlling bodies (minutes of meetings, decisions, resolutions, prescriptions) in the study of cases, arising from administrative and economic relations.
The organizing and supporting of the execution proceeding.
The representation of the Clients’ interests connected with the bankruptcyof the enterprises of the fuel and power complex.

Court representation services in the electric energy industry

The disputing of the non-regulatory legal acts, accepted by the executive bodies towards the electric energy entities.
The participation in the court judicial proceedings at all court instances of the arbitration courts and at the courts of the general jurisdiction in the disputes with participation of the electric energy entities.
The participation in the court judicial proceedings of the specialized arbitration (reference) courts (Reference court of the Fund “Fuel and power complex’s Law and Economy”, International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry, etc.).
The antimonopoly disputes with participation of the electric energy entities.
The taxation disputes with participation of the electric energy entities.

The counseling of the entities of natural monopolies and the electric power entities

The preliminary analysis of the legal and technical situation at the Client’s enterprise.
The presentation of the recommendations on the issues of the tariff calculations (obtaining of the natural monopolies’ status) and its further confirmation in the body of the tariff regulation.
The support of the status obtaining procedure of the natural monopolies’ entity (calculation and confirmation of the tariff at the Regional Electricity Company, elaboration and signing with the involved persons of contracts on services of the electrical energy supply, the purchasing of the electrical energy for the purpose of losses compensation, confirmation of the losses standard at the Ministry of electric energy of the RF, obtaining of the resolution on the inclusion in the register of natural monopolies of Federal Tariff Service of Russia, etc.).
The annual support of the Client’s activity for the purpose of the confirmation of the maximum allowed tariff sum.
The support of the technical connection procedure of the electrical grid facilities (including the optimization of the payment for the technical connection and obtaining of the individual tariff).
Other services, connected with the activity of theentities belonging to natural monopolies and the electric power industry.