Combined with advantages of the headquarter and branches at home and abroad, Shanghai Hiways Law Firm established a professional team proficient in energy law, natural resources law and environmental law with strong professional ability, which can better provide full process legal services for energy, natural resources, and environmental projects carried out by domestic and overseas clients, and further promote the research and judicial practice of energy law, natural resources law and environmental law.

In China, energy industries such as nuclear energy, wind power and solar energy, are characterized with diversified investment entities, high policy uncertainty and variety of environmental interference factors, which may face significant legal risks in project approval/filing, land use, project construction, financing, grid connection, electricity price, subsidy acquisition, equity transfer, dispute resolution and other aspects. Therefore, lawyers’ professional service can effectively prevent, identify, control and resolve legal risks and disputes, ensuring the smooth implementation of projects.

In the past decade, Hiways has provided professional legal support to Chinese and overseas clients in various mineral fields such as hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, solar energy, hydrogen energy, oil, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, coalbed methane, coal and gold in the field of energy and resource services. The legal services we provided involve in each stage of energy service from the project investment plan design, project development and construction engineering, project financing, acquisitions and mergers, compliance review to the daily management of project company and project disputes resolution. Due to rich service experience in the energy industry by ourselves, we have assisted a large number of energy clients to timely and effectively resolve their legal risk issues, and have received high praise from them.

Simultaneously, with the increasing attention paid by governments, international organizations, and the public to environmental issues all over the world, we are also facing increasing regulatory and public pressure in solving the impact of our operations on the environment. Over the years, Hiways has handled a wide range of environmental issues for domestic and overseas clients, including project development, effect assessment, approval and license, climate change, product cycle analysis, due diligence, risk management and dispute resolution etc., which extensively involved in various environmental projects such as water and sewage treatment and discharge, watershed management, river regulation, water diversion project and so on. Hiways is not only capable of providing environmental administrative permit, HSE compliance review, due diligence, environmental project investment & financing, construction, merger, listing, refinancing, establishment and operation of environmental public welfare fund, asset securitization and other comprehensive non-litigation legal affairs related to the environment, but also has abundant practical experience in handling different environmental disputes such as environmental public interest litigation, administrative reconsideration and litigation, civil litigation and arbitration.

Business scope

• Energy enterprise establishment

• Project development

• Land compliance review

• Project construction and grid connection

• Project operation and maintenance

• Energy project investment & financing

• Project compliance rectification

• Energy enterprise supply chain management

• Legal services for the whole process of environmental PPP projects

• Environmental protection, security, health audit and compliance consultation (HSE consultation)

• Environmental legal risk assessment, management and prevention

• Energy product trade remedies and trade compliance services