Alec Van Vaerenbergh
DLA Piper
Belgium
Bringing a wealth of regulatory expertise across sustainability, renewable energy, and carbon trading, Alec Van Vaerenbergh at DLA Piper is a standout advisor to energy and industrial companies, governments, and international organisations on innovative and critical energy transition and climate change matters.
Van Vaerenbergh is a key partner to major multi-national industrial clients on the development of emissions reduction and compensation projects and programmes. A notable client is BASF Antwerpen, whom Van Vaerenbergh is assisting on project and joint venture agreements, regulatory and subsidy issues, ETS obligations, and contractual negotiations to develop and utilise the Antwerp@C carbon capture and storage facility.
Van Vaerenbergh regularly delivers key sustainability insights for clients, instructing government officials through the Sustainable Markets Initiative; training the government of Mauritius on the carbon markets within the firm’s pro bono representation of the nation at the COP climate summits; and helping AB Inbev’s sustainability managers navigate carbon pricing mechanisms. A key academic thought leader, Van Vaerenbergh also serves as a visiting lecturer on climate law at KU Leuven and lectures at the University of Oslo on the contract-for-difference regime.