Dubravka Grujić

Counsel
Vienna
About

Dubravka Grujić is an energy, projects and finance lawyer, qualified in New York, with over 25 years´ experience in energy and infrastructure sectors.

Her practice areas cover the entire energy value chain, including upstream oil and gas exploration, production, lifting, transportation and trading and supply; electricity generation projects (conventional, renewable); electricity transmission, distribution, trading and supply; and emission reduction projects, environmental attributes and securities, allowance and certificate trading as well as related regulatory advice.

Dubravka either advised, or worked as an in-house counsel for, funders, governments, project companies and sponsors. She has extensively worked in a number of jurisdictions (in Europe, Middle East and Africa) on a broad variety of issues and helped clients to successfully navigate through local requirements, whilst ensuring appropriate risk allocation and application of the best international standards.

Areas of FocusEnergy and Natural ResourcesFinancial ServicesFinance
Professional QualificationsAttorney-at-law admitted with the Supreme Court of New York

EXPERIENCE

  • International electricity interconnector and gas pipeline projects in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Greece, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Pakistan, India, Uzbekistan.
  • Commercial agreements on LNG liquefaction and regasification infrastructure, LNG SPAs and shipping.
  • Physically and financially settled PPAs, Route to Market Agreements and project documentation for electricity generation projects from wind, solar, hydro, biomethane and natural gas.
  • Trading platform and exchange rules, clearing rules, shareholder agreements, cooperation agreements and energy regulatory requirements.
  • Connection Agreements, Balancing Group Agreements and other network connection, use and balancing related agreements as well as EU and national Network Codes for gas and electricity networks.
  • Unbundling certification, exemption and derogation proceedings, investor state arbitration and settlement negotiations regarding changes to national concessions, regulatory conditions and support schemes.
  • Development of standard documentation on commodities trading and transportation for industry organisations.
  • Acquisition of electricity generation and distribution, mining, heat production and distribution and oil, gas, petroleum product storage and transportation businesses.
  • Transactions under energy commodity (oil, gas, coal, LNG), emissions and environmental securities trading agreements as well as under tailored spot, forward, option, swap, repo, cross-commodity and master netting agreements, or long form confirmations.
  • Offshore and onshore gas and oil transportation, storage, commingling and quality bank documentation.
  • JOA, PSA, Bid Group Agreements, Lifting Agreements, farm-in and farm-out, EPC, GSA, OSA, GTA and associated commercial agreements for onshore and offshore gas exploration.
  • Long-term biomethane, methanol, ethanol and hydrogen offtake agreements and project development agreements.
Languages
  • English
  • Croatian
  • Bosnian
  • Serbian
  • Italian

Awards

  • Recommended for Projects and Energy in Austria, Legal 500 EMEA, 2025
Education
  • New York University, LL.M., 2001
  • Central European University, LL.M., 1995
  • University of Rijeka, LL.B., 1993

Insight Overview

Dubravka has published various articles on (project) finance matters as well as legislative and legal practice changes (in CEE and SEE).

Memberships And Affiliations

  • New York Bar Association

My latest insights

News

DLA Piper advises Rubicon on financing for construction of anaerobic digestion plant

24 September 2024 .3 minute read

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Phone

+43 1 531 78 1139
(Work, Vienna)