Ashurst has recently announced the appointment of partner Maximilian Uibeleisen, who will be based in the Frankfurt office to strengthen resources and infrastructure team.

Maximilian joins the firms from Noerr, having previously been a partner in Freshfields. He specializes in advising on regulatory and public law issues in energy and healthcare, as well as on environmental risk.

He regularly advises national and international companies and investors on major energy and industrial projects and was part of the Noerr team advising IBERDROLA on proceedings before the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf in connection with allocating network connection capacity limited by the Renewable Energy Sources Act 2014 for offshore wind farms.

Tobias Krug, managing partner of Ashurst in Germany, said:

"We are delighted that Maximilian will be joining the team. His international experience and breadth of expertise in energy related transactions and on the public law/regulatory side of infrastructure projects and related M&A and finance work, will be invaluable. We have continued to make significant investment into our resources and infrastructure teams and this appointment will further deepen and strengthen our regional and international offering to clients."