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Infrastructure Projects Law Firm in Bulgaria

We cover every area of Infrastructure Projects Law.

As a sponsor, lender or public sector organisation, you require legal advisors who can help you succeed in complex infrastructure and project financing transactions. Whether you are involved in public works programmes or private sector financing in the areas of transport, health, education, waste, energy, defence, IT/telecoms, leisure, custodial & justice, ports, rail, roads or water, you can depend on the leading lawyers in major infrastructure projects and related project financing throughout the world.  In Central and Eastern Europe, CMS has valuable experience of the successful procurement and implementation of infrastructure projects, including providing key advice on procurement, project documents and financing strategy. 

We have delivered deals in a range of sectors with a combined value of several billion euro, advising on public private partnerships, energy and renewables projects, including the largest offshore wind farms in Europe, infrastructure and utilities investments and a range of other development and corporate finance transactions. If you are an investor selling or buying an interest in a concession, a utility business or a PPP deal, you need expert guidance through the complex bidding process. Our lawyers have helped shape transactions across these sectors, ensuring quick deal completions on terms that optimise your returns. And if you are facing a potential dispute, we have the experts to support you through dispute resolution procedures or litigation action. Whatever your situation, we have the track record and the people to help. With over 350 lawyers working in this sector, we can support your transaction in virtually any part of the world including the UK, Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the Middle East, Turkiye, India, Africa, Asia and the Americas.  


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11/10/2024
The use of good faith arguments in time-bar disputes
Good faith obligations are often raised in international construction disputes to overcome time-bar defences raised by employers. This Law-Now considers the approach to enforcing time-bar clauses under...
25/09/2024
CMS Network Sharing 5: Celebrating 10 years of the Network Sharing Study
For the last 10 years we have been following the evolution of network sharing in the telecom industry. This fifth edition continues our study of how companies in the sector use network sharing to save costs and rationalise services. For this edition, the CMS Network Sharing Study not only gathers all factual information about 76 network sharing deals that have been closed from May 2021 in 46 different jurisdictions worldwide, and the differences among them: it also includes interviews with some of the main actors, such as American Tower, Macquarie Capital and Totem Towers, as well as papers from experts regarding topics such as tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions network financing, foreign direct investment, competition Law, 5G, towers and fibre. As a testament to the creativity of the industry, network sharing has slowly shifted.  Sharing through agreements have given place -in some cases- to sharing through incorporated companies.  B-lateral deals do still exist but neutral host networks, serving all operators in the market, are now the main protagonists through which networks are effectively shared by multiple operators. The digital revolution during the last 20 years has required and is still requiring vast investment in access networks including optical fibre, towers and other assets (now satellites): this comes at a cost.  In some cases the traditional telcos couldn’t monetise their investments (perhaps due, in Europe, to excessive regulation). As a result, indebted companies were in need to sell and/or share their infrastructures, sometimes to investment funds that had no ambition to compete in the provision of services and created independent NetCos  offering wholesale services - the US towers market being one example, with 90% of towers controlled by independent TowerCos while in Europe we have seen FibreCos coming to shake up the FTTH build. The time when each operator owned (and financed) the network it used has long passed. Competition in services remains, but now competition in infrastructures (in parallel with competition between different infrastructures) may be the next future. Globalisation has also arrived in network sharing, with growing protagonism in Latin America (the topic of special focus in the Study) and Africa as well as South-East Asia.  South America has seen a large amount of activity and the 5th edition of the study is doing a spotlight on the deals seen in the region. Interestingly, the existence of network slicing in 5G could give the lead again to telecom operators, as it will allow them to create virtual networks, to be offered either to smaller operators or to companies wanting to have their own independent, private and dedicated slice of a network, in a cloud-style net­work-as-a-ser­vice new pattern. The rise of satellite services in the coming years will also create the need for an enhanced spectrum sharing. Satellite will also be a growing infrastructure competing with towers and other access networks. So whilst we reflect on changes and trends since the last few years, our eyes are also turned towards the future and how the industry will adapt and find news ways to share.
10/09/2024
CMS Annual Review of English Construction Law Developments: An International...
We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2024 edition of our internationally focused Annual Review of English Construction Law Developments. The Annual Review summarises key developments in English...
29/08/2024
European Commission’s call for evidence on the revision of the guidelines...
The European Commission has launched on 27 August a public consultation on State aid in the aviation sector. The consultation will run until 8 October 2024.The 2014 Guidelines on State aid to airports...
19/06/2024
Overview of the EU-Australia Memorandum of Understanding on Critical and...
The European Union (“EU”) and Australia on 28 May 2024 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) to forge a partnership aimed at developing a secure, stable, ethical, and sustainable supply...
29/04/2024
On your radar | Key employment issues to be aware of internationally
We are delighted to share with you our latest and largest edition of On Your Radar, with contributions from 35 coun­tries.   As ever, you will find employment law updates covering a diverse range of...
09/04/2024
The sum of parts: Registered design for segments of towers found valid...
BackgroundTA Towers ApS (“TA Towers”), a company based in Denmark, is the holder of the below registered Community design relating to goods for building materials, specifically, ‘building materials...
23/02/2024
The CBAM – what is it and how will it affect the market?
Regulation (EU) 2023/956 establishing a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) entered into force on 17 May 2023. The implementation of the CBAM has been divided into a transitional period (from 1...
25/01/2024
Emerging Europe M&A Report 2023/2024
Despite geopolitical tensions, fears of recession and strong inflationary pressures across the EU, as well as the fiscal tightening needed to contain them, M&A in the CEE region has remained reasonably buoyant. Findings from the CMS Emer­ging Europe M&A 2023/24 report, published in cooperation with EMIS, demonstrate the resilience of the Emerging Europe deals market as activity holds firm against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions and strong inflationary pressures. Welcome to the 2023/24 edition of the Emerging Europe report.
19/01/2024
CBAM: Just over a week to comply
As the deadline for the first Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) report approaches on January 31st, it is crucial for undertakings engaged in importing relevant goods into the European Union to...
03/10/2023
CMS advises Enka on photovoltaic project acquisition in Bulgaria
CMS has advised Enka on its EUR 8.4 million acquisition of a 40-megawatt photovoltaic project through the acquisition of the Town Up 8 company. Savova & Co reportedly advised the sellers. Enka is an engineering...
18/08/2023
CMS advises Skoda on EUR 70 million tender for eight metro trains to metropoliten...
CMS has advised the Czech consortium of Skoda Transportation and Skoda Vagonka on their successful participation in Metropoliten Sofia's BGN 134 million public procurement procedure for eight metro trains...