Dr. Ruth Losch

Managing Associate, Berlin

Overview

Professional experience

Education and qualifications

Published works

Overview

Ruth has specialised experience in energy law and regularly publishes and lectures on national and European energy regulation. She advises clients mostly on energy regulatory issues, both stand-alone or in relation to M&A transactions, project developments or financings.

Work highlights
  • International Investment Group: Advice on the regulatory framework for battery storage in Germany
  • A bank: Advising on establishing a gas trading desk in Germany
  • Macquarie: Advice on the sale of a stake in the transmission system operator Open Grid Europe (OGE) on Fluxys S.A
  • Energy companies: Advice on the legal framework for importing green hydrogen into the EU, including on the German H2Global auctions
  • Energy companies: Advice on the regulatory requirements for the construction, connection and operation of LNG terminals

Professional experience

Ruth joined Linklaters as an associate in 2012 and was promoted to managing associate in 2016. She started her career in 2008 as a lawyer at an international accounting firm and a German energy law boutique.

Education and qualifications

Ruth studied law at the Universities of Osnabrück, Kingston upon Hull (UK) and Berlin. She also completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in legal theory and comparative law in Brussels. She was a DAAD scholarship holder at the School of Polish Business Law at the Universytet Jagiellonski Kraków (PL) and a DFG scholarship holder of the European Research Training Group "System Transformation and Economic Integration in a Europe Growing Together".

She speaks German and English.

Published works