Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gleiss Lutz have picked up advisory mandates as German energy companies prepare for the Government’s plans to phase out nuclear power plants by 2022.

Herbert Smith’s German alliance partner Gleiss Lutz is advising E.ON in relation to the plans to close all 17 of the country’s nuclear power plants within the next 10 years, which were announced by the German coalition government at the end of May.