DLA Piper assisted Nord/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank in the €29.75 million financing to European Wind Energy (EWE), a company of the WSB Neue Energien Group, for the construction of an 18 MW wind farm in the Municipality of Melfi (Potenza).

The wind farm has been admitted to the public subsidies in the GSE's public tender closed on July 2013, and will enter operation in fall 2015.

DLA Piper acted with a combined team of lawyers from the Rome and Frankfurt offices, comprising the partners Wolfram Distler (for the German banking law aspects), Matteo Falcione (for regulatory matters), Giovanni Ragnoni (for the Italian banking law aspects) and Giulio Maroncelli (for project agreements); the senior associates Rebecca Schulz and Claudio D'Alia, and the associates Mileto Giuliani, Fabio Lenzini, Milly Supino, Carmen Buono and Rosali Reindl. European Wind Energy (EWE) has been assisted by Gianpaolo Terranova, of counsel of Eptalex/Jglegal.