BBH EXPERTS

• Energy contract law (grid and sales, electricity, gas and biogas)
• Utility easements and rights of way
• Company law and law on groups of companies
• Digitalisation of advisory products and services

Dr. Erik Ahnis advises clients on all aspects of energy contract law from an energy supplier’s perspective. He has particular cross-sectoral expertise in the electricity and gas sector (grid and sales). Dr. Erik Ahnis also specialises in green gases, utility easements and rights of way as well as legal tech.

• Born in Schlema (Ore Mountains) in 1973
• 1992-1994 bank apprenticeship, studies of banking services in Berlin and Frankfurt a.M.
• 1995-2005 studies of law at Humboldt University of Berlin and the University of Liverpool
• 1995-2000 staff member in various strategic units of Bankgesellschaft Berlin AG
• 2001-2005 doctorate and research associate (in part) at European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) with Prof. Dr. Kaspar Frey
• 2005 dissertation on the execution of voting rights and shareholder control: “Verwaltungsvollmacht und Aktionärskontrolle: Voraussetzungen und Grenzen der Verwaltungsvollmacht auf deutschen Online-Hauptversammlungen sowie Vorschläge zur Stärkung der Kontrolle der Verwaltung”, VVF Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2005
• 2005-2006 lawyer at a Berlin-based law firm specialising in insolvency law
• Since 2006 lawyer at BBH Berlin
• Since 2015 partner at BBH
• Ranking by Handelsblatt and the US publisher Best Lawyers: recognition as one of “Germany’s top lawyers” 2024 in the area of energy law