Dominique Vanherck

Practice Areas

Dominique Vanherck is a Director at Deloitte Legal’s Public, regulatory and permits team with a clear focus on energy and infrastructure projects. She advises on energy & climate law and in that respect advises on permits, concessions, renewable energy support mechanisms and grid access. Furthermore, Dominique drafts and negotiates construction and engineering contracts (with a particular focus on Design, Build, Finance and Maintain contracts and EPC contracts). She has assisted clients with the development of several offshore and onshore wind farms, PV projects, a district heating grid, a biomass plant, public infrastructure (roads, bridges, a hospital and a police station) and an industrial plant (a sugar beet plant).

In addition, Dominique regularly advises on EU regulatory law, including energy law and chemicals legislation (REACH and CLP).

Career

Lawyer, Deloitte Legal – Lawyers (formerly Laga), April 2018 – Present

Lawyer, Loyens & Loeff Brussels, August 2011 – March 2018

Affiliated researcher KU Leuven, Institute for Environmental and Energy Law, February 2015 – present

Professional Memberships

Member of the Brussels Bar since 2011

Aaffiliated researcher at the KU Leuven's Institute for Environmental and Energy Law

Member of the editorial board of "Tijdschrift Milieu- en Energierecht".

Publications

Most recent publications:

D. VANHERCK, « Het nieuwe Europese kader voor hernieuwbare energie – goede voornemens voor 2030”, in K. Deketelaere en B. Delvaux (ed.), Jaarboek Energierecht 2018, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2019.

D. VANHERCK en B. DEVLIES, “Steunregelingen voor de productie van hernieuwbare energie. De Commissie trekt het laken verder naar zich toe.”, MER 2017, 4th edition, 261-272

T. CHELLINGSWORTH and D. VANHERCK, “Ambitie en bescheidenheid in een netwerk van wachtleidingen. Het regulerend kader voor warmte- en koudenetten in het Vlaams Gewest”, in K. DEKETELAERE en B. DELVAUX, Jaarboek Energierecht 2016, Antwerp, Intersentia, 2017, pp. 155-220

T. CHELLINGSWORTH and D. VANHERCK, “Het nieuwe kader voor distributienettarieven in Brussel en Wallonië: de kracht van de continuïteit”, in K. DEKETELAERE en B. DELVAUX, Jaarboek Energierecht 2015, Antwerp, Intersentia, 2016, 239-286

T. CHELLINGSWORTH and D. VANHERCK, “Eén loket (one stop shop)”, in A.-M. VAN DEN BOSSCHE, Duiding Mededinging 2016, Brussels, Larcier, 2016, 814-860

T. CHELLINGSWORTH and D. VANHERCK, “Er beweegt wat op zee. Over de hervorming van het ondersteuningsmechanisme voor offshore windenergie”, MER 2015, 3rd edition, 187-196

Industry Sector Expertise

Energy - Power & Utilities

Energy

Energy Law

European Law

Public Law

Politics

CLP

Public Private Partnership (PPP)

Administrative Law

EU Regulatory Compliance

Administrative Litigation

PPP

EPC contracts

Energy, Renewable Energy

Public Private Partnership (Roads and Highways)

REACH Compliance

Public Procurement Law