Dr. Klaus-Dieter Borchardt
Biography
Klaus-Dieter Borchardt is a senior energy advisor at the European Competition Law Practice in the Baker McKenzie Brussels office. He joined the Firm in 2020.
Klaus-Dieter worked for 33 years at the European Commission, including four years at the European Court of Justice. When he left the European Commission, he was deputy director general for Energy.
Klaus-Dieter is also an expert in EU Law, having spent 12 years in the commission's Legal Service, where he was responsible for state aid, internal market and agriculture.
He is a professor at the Julius-Maximilians-University, author of a standard textbook on EU Law and co-editor of a commentary of the EU Treaties.
Practice Focus
During his 33 years at the European Commission, Klaus-Dieter Borchardt was instrumental in many major developments in EU law and EU energy law and policy. He played a key role in the evolution of the legal framework of the European state aid control, notably the establishment of private market investor tests. He was the central EU official in the recent reform of the European electricity market design as part of the "Clean Energy for All Europeans" package. He chaired the Connecting Europe Facility's evaluation committee as well as the European gas, electricity and infrastructure fora.
Representative Legal Matters
At Baker McKenzie, Klaus-Dieter works closely with the Energy, Mining & Infrastructure, Projects and Competition teams in the EMEA region.
Education
- Free University of Berlin (Dr. jur.) (1985)
- High Court of Hamburg (Second State Examination) (1985)
- University of Hamburg (First State Exam) (1979)
Languages
- English
- French
- German