Panoramic: Automotive and Mobility 2025
Hydrogen
One of the most promising ways to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the replacement of fossil fuels by alternative climate-friendly options. The use of hydrogen will play a key role in this transition. We help our clients to maneuver the developing legal regimes for hydrogen usage and advise on market entry strategies and regulatory requirements worldwide.
One of the most promising ways to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is the replacement of fossil fuels by alternative climate-friendly options. The use of hydrogen will play a key role in this transition. We help our clients maneuver the developing legal regimes for hydrogen usage and advise on market entry strategies and regulatory requirements worldwide.
As a full-service law firm, we have extensive know-how in all areas of law that may become relevant in the context of hydrogen projects. In particular, our global team has extensive experience in energy regulatory law, energy trading law, and public commercial law. We have successfully advised on the development, financing, and construction of numerous infrastructure projects, with a particular expertise in the areas of natural gas, power and renewables.
Clients benefit not only from our regional expertise, but especially from our global approach: Our initiative H2L connects our lawyers worldwide to collaborate, share experience, and learn from the developments in the hydrogen sector worldwide.
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Hear from our clients and industry leaders
The whole team is super smart. They are all really easy to work with and then know our business inside out. They come to us proactively with issues and are incredibly responsive.
Chambers & Partners, UK Guide, 2025
An intellectually brilliant and commercially astute public law team. One of the very best in the city.
Chambers & Partners UK 2025
Hogan Lovells has a high capability in solving complex issues that involve both legal and technical perspectives.
Chambers & Partners, Germany, 2025
The lawyers are just experts. They are there when you need them and happy to entertain all my questions. They understand the wider context and the politics and sensitivities of it.
Chambers & Partners, UK 2025
Representative experience
Advising a bidder seeking to acquire British Steel from liquidation, including negotiations in relation to a UK government support package and clean hydrogen steel fabrication.
Advising a UK hydrogen car manufacturer on corporate and financing issues.
Assisting a client in negotiations concerning participation in a demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell providing back-up for wind and solar supplies to provide a 24/7 carbon free power supply.
Assisting a client in applying for federal R&D funding to demonstrate the feasibility of producing hydrogen at a nuclear power plant that will generate power at a nearby gas plant.
A fuel cell developer in connection with the negotiation of fuel cell energy services agreements for over 100 commercial and industrial customer sites.
An independent power producer in connection with a number of energy storage projects in New York.
Advising a Japanese trading house on partnering arrangements for the development of a commercial-scale hydrogen production facility in the northwest of Australia.
Advising an Asian renewables company on due diligence and site screening for a potential novel blue hydrogen production development in Australia.
German gas network operators on potential impacts of the upcoming regulatory regime for hydrogen infrastructure.
An infrastructure investor on potential rededication of existing gas network infrastructure for the usage as hydrogen pipeline, expected impacts on network fee regulation and risk of shut down scenarios.
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