Discover the authors of the European Energy Markets Observatory.
- Capgemini
- Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking
- CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre
- VaasaETT and the Global Energy Think Tank
Capgemini
Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies.
Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working - the Collaborative Business Experience® - and through a global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to offer the right resources in the right location at competitive cost. Present in 36 countries, Capgemini reported 2007 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and employs over 88,000 people worldwide.
With 1.15 billion euros revenue in 2007 and 10,000+ dedicated consultants engaged in Energy, Utilities and Chemicals projects across Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, Capgemini’s Energy, Utilities & Chemicals Global Sector serves the business consulting and information technology needs of many of the world’s largest players of this industry.
More information about our services, offices and research is available at www.capgemini.com/energy
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking
Société Générale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 151,000 people worldwide in three key businesses:
- Retail Banking & Financial Services: Société Générale serves more than 30 million individual customers worldwide.
- Global Investment Management & Services: Société Générale is one of the largest banks in the euro-zone in terms of assets under custody (EUR 2 733 billion, June 2008) and under management (EUR 381.4 billion, June 2008).
- Corporate & Investment Banking: Société Générale ranks among the leading banks worldwide in euro capital markets, derivatives and structured finance.
Société Générale is included in 3 socially-responsible investment indexes: FTSE, ASPI and Ethibel.
Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking
A leading player present in over 45 countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking is the bank of reference for:
- Euro capital markets. A top 5 player across euro debt capital markets (bonds, securitisation, loans), and a leader in French Equity Capital Markets with European reach.
- Derivatives. A world leader in equity derivatives, and with forefront positions in many interest rate, credit, foreign exchange and commodities derivatives.
- Structured finance. A worldwide leader in export, project and structured commodity finance with global expertise in energy, infrastructure, real estate and media & telecom finance.
Tailoring solutions in terms of capital raising, financing, risk management and investment, Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking combines expertise, innovation and advisory skills coupled with quality of execution to both issuers and investors clients across debt and equity.
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre is one of the leading business law firms in France. Its organisation based on the active assistance by specialist lawyers and its recognised know-how for over 80 years ensure that companies are provided with reliable and sound advice relating to their strategic and tactical decisions at national and international level.
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre is a member of CMS, the organisation of 9 major independent European law firms providing businesses with legal and tax services across Europe and beyond. Operating in 48 business centres around the world, CMS has over 595 partners, more than 2,200 legal and tax advisers and a total complement of over 4,600 staff.
CMS member firms: CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni, CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre, CMS Cameron McKenna LLP, CMS DeBacker, CMS Derks Star Busmann, CMS von Erlach Henrici, CMS Hasche Sigle, CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz.
CMS member firms’ offices and associated offices worldwide: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Zurich, Aberdeen, Algiers, Antwerp, Arnhem, Beijing, Belgrade, Bratislava, Bristol, Bucharest, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Cologne, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Kyiv, Leipzig, Ljubljana, Lyon, Marbella, Milan, Montevideo, Moscow, Munich, New York, Prague, Sao Paulo, Sarajevo, Seville, Shanghai, Sofia, Strasbourg, Stuttgart, Utrecht, Warsaw and Zagreb.
The members of CMS are in association with The Levant Lawyers with offices in Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait.
VaasaETT and the Global Energy Think Tank
The VaasaETT Global Energy Think Tank is a coordinator of expertise for the energy and utilities industry, comprising expert exploration, events and knowledge sharing, supervised by a senior independent advisory committee. The Think Tank affords outstanding opportunities to search out answers to key questions using the best knowledge from around the world.
Through the thousands of high and medium level executives, officials, researchers, consultants and other experts that we know and trust personally, the Global Energy Think Tank creates partnerships and consortiums for research, strategic advice, solutions and even independent lobbying support. Whatever you need to know, we probably know someone, somewhere who has the answer. Covering over 50 countries in four continents, our network covers a wide range of interest areas, from Demand Response and Smart Metering, to Customer Switching, from Renewable Energy to Smart Grids, from Regulatory Efficiency to Competitive Pricing.
VaasaETT is a highly innovative research and advisory agency, providing world leading customer psychometrics and related strategies through research and collaboration with the Global Energy Think Tank®. Unrivaled expertise of utility customer psychology and behaviour is applied to three core focus areas: Customer Value, Market Efficiency and Demand Response within liberalized and smart metering environments. VaasaETT is arguably the world’s leading collector and analyst of global customer switching, churn, loyalty and elasticity trends in competitive (liberalized / deregulated) retail electricity and gas markets.
