Elisabetta Aarts specialises in energy law, public law and regulated markets. She advises a broad range of domestic and international clients in energy-related matters. Elisabetta is the regular lawyer of TenneT, the Dutch national electricity grid and transmission system operator and has been closely involved in the drafting of contracts and regulations which govern the Dutch electricity market, including various auction regulations for cross-border exchanges of electricity. Elisabetta's advisory and litigation practice extends to other regulated markets and compliance.

Recent work includes advising:

• TenneT on a wide range of issues arising from the legally required transfer of the management of high-voltage grids from the regional grid operators to TenneT; on mechanisms to manage structural capacity constraints on the domestic grids; on market coupling with Belgium and France and cross-border intraday capacity allocation on the interconnections with Belgium and Germany
• Electrabel on the allocation of carbon emission allowances under the European Directive establishing the European GHG allowances trading scheme
• Airtricity on the energy, permitting and funding aspects of the development of one or more offshore large scale wind farms off the Dutch North Sea coast
• GMR Group on energy sector regulation and contract matters involved in GMR's acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in InterGen.

She is co-editor of a compilation of electricity and gas market laws and regulations, which is much used by company lawyers, courts and legal advisers, and she is a member of the board of editors of the Dutch energy law magazine NTE.