Dr. Marco Garbers, LL.M. (Cornell)

Senior Manager Hamburg

Energy and climate law Litigation, Arbitration

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PwC Legal

Alsterufer 1

20354 Hamburg

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Qualification

Lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) since 2004

Expertise

National and international companies and groups
Municipal utility companies
Energy suppliers
Investors in the energy sector

Languages

German
English

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About me

Marco Garbers is a lawyer specialising in energy law. He has been advising companies in the electricity and gas industry for over twenty years on issues relating to energy regulation, contract law and renewable energies. He represents clients in arbitration and court proceedings and supports them in out-of-court dispute resolution. Marco Garbers worked in-house for the trading subsidiary of a large German energy group in Essen for over 5 years, focussing on German and European electricity and gas issues in the area of wholesale markets and energy networks. He regularly publishes in energy law commentaries and journals, including on issues relating to energy contract law, renewable energies and regulatory issues.

Career

Since 2025: PwC Legal, Hamburg
Until 2024: Worked for a leading German law firm, Hamburg
Until 2020: Worked for a major German law firm, Hamburg
Until 2014: Worked for the trading subsidiary of a large German energy group, Essen/Swindon, UK
Until 2009: Worked for a British law firm, Berlin
Until 2005: Legal clerkship at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, with stages in Frankfurt and New York
Until 2000: Postgraduate programme Master of Laws (LL.M.), Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY (USA)
Until 1999: Legal studies, Hamburg

Publications

Commentary on §§ 23 to 27 EEG, in: Frenz, Walter et al. (ed.), EEG 2023, 6th ed. 2025 (forthcoming)
Electricity distribution, in: Pritzsche, Kai/Vacha, Vivien (Hrsg.), Energy law - Introduction and basics, 2nd edition 2024
Electricity supply contracts, in: Graf von Westphalen, Friedrich u.a. (Hrsg.), Contract law and general terms and conditions clauses (together with Schöne, Thomas, 2020)
Commentary on Sections 37 to 38a EEG 2021 (tenders for solar plants), in: Säcker, Franz Jürgen (ed.): Berliner Kommentar zum Energierecht (Volume 6, 5th edition)
Individual legal issues in the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2016/631 establishing a grid code with grid connection requirements for electricity producers, in: Forum Netztechnik/Netzbetrieb im VDE, Hotspotthemen (2018, p. 8 ff.)
The admissibility of netting clauses in EFET framework agreements pursuant to Section 104 InsO (new version), in: Neue Zeitschrift für Insolvenz- und Sanierungsrecht, 2017, p. 953 (together with Streit, Georg/Bretthauer, Stefan)
Feed-in grids and grid connection lines for onshore wind farms: when does a regulated grid arise?, in: RdE 2016, p. 347 et seq.
Legal requirements for the Federal Network Agency for regulatory intervention in the electricity market in the interests of security of supply, Recht der Energiewirtschaft 2015, p. 221 et seq.
Incentive regulation under the Energy Industry Act 2005, Baden-Baden 2006 (together with Baur, Jürgen/Pritzsche, Kai Uwe)
Unfair terms in consumer contracts - Directive 93/13/EEC, in: Paschke, Marian/Iliopoulos, Constantin (eds.): European Private Law, Berlin 1998