Janka Schwaibold, born in Soltau, studied law in Jena and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and completed her legal clerkship in Potsdam.
After her admission to the bar in 2007, she initially worked in Berlin for the supra-regional energy law boutique BBH and, from 2013, helped establish its newly opened office in Hamburg. She has been a mediator since 2012.
Janka Schwaibold has been successfully advising energy supply companies in the media of electricity, gas and heat for many years, both on an individual company basis and in the context of working groups, lectures and training courses.
She reviews and negotiates procurement contracts and price revisions as well as contracts in connection with network and storage access, special connection constellations, metering regulation and integration of generation plants. In client discussions at eye level, she supports clients in the product-oriented implementation of legal and regulatory requirements, the analysis and optimization of energy industry process flows in the interaction of several market roles, and in the enforcement of claims arising from market processes in electricity and gas network access. She prepares contract documents for end-customer products, energy purchasing and services.
Janka Schwaibold assists companies with market entry in the regulated media of electricity and gas as well as with the integration of hydrogen. She advises large energy consumers on energy purchasing and cost optimization. She advises closed distribution system and customer system operators on regulatory issues and in the context of self-generation.
She conducts proceedings before courts, regulatory authorities as well as arbitration boards, supports associations in making statements in legislative and regulatory proceedings and mediates between market roles. In addition, it advises on infrastructure projects at the interface between energy supply and the maritime industry.