Expertise

Commercial Law
As a business operating in today’s increasingly regulated markets, you need to manage your commercial risk while achieving your business objectives. Your success is built upon the effectiveness of your...
Belgium
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Construction & development
Building better, faster and cheaper in a context of technological and digital developments, while respecting the environment and the local community and adapting to new lifestyles – that is the ambition...
France
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Construction & Engineering
Whether you are an employer/owner, contractor, funder/investor or you are buying an interest in a project that is under construction or has recently been completed, you need documents that reflect your...
United Kingdom
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Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you may face challenges such as globalization, digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, consumer and media pressure, growing retailer buyer power...
Italy
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Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Belgium
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Consumer Products
The consumer products sector is by its nature fast-moving and diverse, and CMS has extensive industry experience and understanding of the issues relevant to your business. We can quickly assemble cross-border...
Germany
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Serbia
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
For many years now, consumer law has continued to extend its hold over the legal landscape, both in France and Europe, reflecting a constant desire to rebalance relations between businesses and consumers...
France
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Austria
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
Consumer products is one of the fastest growing sectors in CEE. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region and to grow and protect their...
Czech Republic
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Croatia
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
The consumer products sector is facing endless challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, as well as those brought by environmental and health issues, supply chain management, media and consumer...
Spain
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products is one of the fastest growing sectors in CEE. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region and to grow and protect their...
Poland
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
Consumer products is one of the fastest growing sectors in CEE. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region and to grow and protect their...
Slovakia
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Montenegro
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
Consumer products is one of the fastest growing sectors in CEE. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region and to grow and protect their...
Bulgaria
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
Consumer products is one of the fastest growing sectors in Turkiye and emerging Europe generally. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region...
Turkiye
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Consumer Products
Recent times have brought new challenges to all areas of the consumer products sector. The new post-pandemic reality, changing consumer tastes, increasing regulatory burden, pressures on margins and supply...
Portugal
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Consumer Products
Consumer products is one of the fastest growing sectors in CEE. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region and to grow and protect their...
Romania
expertise
Consumer Products
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Slovenia
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
Consumer products is one of the fastest growing sectors in CEE. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region and to grow and protect their...
Hungary
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
Consumer products is one of the fastest growing sectors in CEE. For many years we have helped leading international and domestic brands establish a presence in the region and to grow and protect their...
Ukraine
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
North Macedonia
Consumer Products
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Consumer Products
CMS supports each step of the consumer value chain, from the factory floor all the way to the shop door (or the customer’s front door). We help consumer facing companies create, deliver, and sell their...
United Kingdom
expertise
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as globalisation and digitalisation, environmental and health concerns, supply chain management, consumer and media pressure...
Switzerland
expertise
Consumer Products
As a player in the consumer products sector, you face a myriad of challenges such as strong competition, globalisation and digitalisation, legislative changes, environmental and health concerns, volatile...
Netherlands
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Defendant Personal Injury
The CMS Defendant Personal Injury team is ranked Tier 1 in the Legal 500 and specialises in the defence of personal injury claims on behalf of public bodies, insurers and self-insured corporate clients...
United Kingdom
expertise
Dispute Resolution
If you have an issue requiring legal action, CMS Luxembourg can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. Our lawyers are not just litigators...
Luxembourg
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Dispute Resolution
We assist private clients, investors, company directors, institutions and local or international companies during the pre-litigation and litigation phases of any disputes arising in their own lives or...
Monaco
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Dispute Resolution
Our Dispute Resolution team has two partners, Jean-Fabrice Brun and Olivier Kuhn, and a team of seven employees dedicated entirely to the work. With extensive experience in civil and criminal proceedings...
France
expertise
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Switzerland
expertise
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Belgium
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Austria
Dispute Resolution
expertise
Dispute Resolution
CMS has a wealth of experience across CEE in helping clients to resolve their disputes. Our lawyers from 15 offices in the region represent multinationals and leading local players in a wide variety of...
Poland
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
CMS has a wealth of experience across CEE in helping clients to resolve their disputes. Our lawyers from 15 offices in the region represent multinationals and leading local players in a wide variety of...
Slovakia
Dispute Resolution
expertise
Dispute Resolution
CMS has a wealth of experience across CEE in helping clients to resolve their disputes. Our lawyers from 17 offices in the region represent multinationals and leading local players in a wide variety of...
Czech Republic
expertise
Dispute Resolution
CMS has a wealth of experience across CEE in helping clients to resolve their disputes. Our lawyers from 15 offices in the region represent multinationals and leading local players in a wide variety of...
Hungary
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Croatia
Dispute Resolution
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Dispute Resolution
Over the years our professionals have developed a significant expertise in handling litigation matters before all Italian Courts, including the Italian Supreme Court, the State Council and the Constitutional...
Italy
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Montenegro
Dispute Resolution
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Dispute Resolution
CMS has a leading and experienced dispute resolution team across emerging Europe. Lawyers across 15 offices in the region collaborate closely on advising high-profile multinational and regional clients...
Turkiye
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Litigations can arise from a wide range of areas, including data protection, cyber security, external contracts and intellectual property, and class actions. Each litigation is different and requires...
Portugal
expertise
Dispute Resolution
We have one of the most respected litigation and arbitration practices in Germany. Our Dispute Resolution team has been among the largest, most versatile and most innovative in the market for many years. The...
Germany
expertise
Dispute Resolution
CMS has a leading and experienced Dispute Resolution Team across CEE. Lawyers across 15 offices in the region collaborate closely on advising high-profile multinational and regional clients on a wide...
Romania
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dispute Resolution
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Slovenia
Dispute Resolution
expertise
Dispute Resolution
The CMS Dispute Resolution team offers the full range of integrated support, sector and commercial experience and a world-class service to respond quickly to you - a true 360° approach, from long-term...
United Kingdom
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
CMS has a leading and experienced dispute resolution team across CEE. Lawyers across 15 offices in the region collaborate closely on advising high-profile multinational and regional clients on a wide...
Bulgaria
Dispute Resolution
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
Serbia
Dispute Resolution
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Dispute Resolution
If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in your best interests. CMS´s sector-focused lawyers are...
North Macedonia
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Dispute Resolution
Our dispute resolution team confronts the solution of issues from a corporate perspective, reaching far beyond the settlement of the matter. Within the realms of legal proceedings, judicial reviews and...
Spain
expertise
Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
CMS has a leading and experienced dispute resolution team across CEE. Lawyers across 15 offices in the region collaborate closely on advising high-profile multinational and regional clients on a wide...
Ukraine
Dispute Resolution
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Dispute Resolution
Disputes have always existed, as has dispute resolution. If you have a problem requiring legal action, our team can assist you in analysing risk, managing disputes and seeking constructive solutions in...
Netherlands
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
Employment is a rapidly developing area of regulation in CEE. Our employment specialists in the region can work in partnership with your legal and human resources teams to provide advice on all key aspects...
Slovakia
Employment & Pensions
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Employment & Pensions
The labour market is dynamic, as is labour law – such is evident from numerous legal changes in 2016. The increase of maximum working hours in combination with work-related travel times, restrictions...
North Macedonia
expertise
Employment & Pensions
The labour market is dynamic, as is labour law – such is evident from numerous legal changes in 2016. The increase of maximum working hours in combination with work-related travel times, restrictions...
Croatia
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
The labour market is dynamic, as is labour law – such is evident from numerous legal changes in 2016. The increase of maximum working hours in combination with work-related travel times, restrictions...
Montenegro
Employment & Pensions
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
The labour market is dynamic, as is labour law – such is evident from numerous legal changes in 2016. The increase of maximum working hours in combination with work-related travel times, restrictions...
Serbia
Employment & Pensions
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Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
The labour market is dynamic, as is labour law – such is evident from numerous legal changes in 2016. The increase of maximum working hours in combination with work-related travel times, restrictions...
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Employment & Pensions
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Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
The labour market is dynamic, as is labour law – such is evident from numerous legal changes in 2016. The increase of maximum working hours in combination with work-related travel times, restrictions...
Slovenia
Employment & Pensions
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Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
The labour market’s development is dynamic, and labour law is constantly changing, not just in Austria. Change is triggered by the factual framework, e.g. the rise of matrix organisations or the labour...
Austria
Employment & Pensions
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Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
Employment is a rapidly developing area of regulation in CEE. Our employment specialists in the region can work in partnership with your legal and human resources teams to provide advice on all key aspects...
Bulgaria
Employment & Pensions
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Employment & Pensions
Employment is a rapidly developing area of regulation in CEE. Our employment specialists in the region can work in partnership with your legal and human resources teams to provide advice on all key aspects...
Ukraine
Employment & Pensions
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Employment & Pensions
For your business to be successful, you must manage your employees and their benefits as well as your employee representatives such as works councils and unions. Yet from executive contracts and equal...
Switzerland
expertise
Employment & Pensions
The labour market is changing at an ever-increasing pace. Changes in the organization of companies and the evolution of digitalization and remote work on an unprecedented scale, are driving a series of...
Portugal
expertise
Employment & Pensions
For your business to be successful, you must manage your employees and their benefits as well as your employee representatives. Employment and pension law in Europe is complex and, at times, contradictory...
Italy
expertise
Employment & Pensions
The advent of the digital age and the simultaneous development of new economic models; the increased power of a collaborative dynamic leading to new management systems; the significant development of...
France
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Our Employment Law team assists and represents Monegasque employers - both businesses and private individuals - in litigation, pre litigation and advisory matters, to design and implement labour relations...
Monaco
expertise
Employment & Pensions
For your business to be successful, the relationship with your employees as well as your employee representatives such as works councils and unions is crucial. Employment and pension law in Europe is...
Belgium
expertise
Employment & Pensions
For your business to be successful, you must manage your employees and their benefits as well as your employee representatives such as works councils and unions. Yet from executive contracts and equal...
Luxembourg
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Regional Employment is a rapidly developing area of regulation in CEE. Our employment specialists in the region can work in partnership with your legal and human resources teams to provide advice on all...
Poland
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Employment is a rapidly developing area of regulation in CEE. Our employment specialists in the region can work in partnership with your legal and human resources teams to provide advice on all key aspects...
Czech Republic
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Employment is a rapidly developing area of regulation in CEE. Our employment specialists in the region can work in partnership with your legal and human resources teams to provide advice on all key aspects...
Hungary
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Turkey, mostly, has established laws and practices regarding employment law matters. Historically, both the laws and the precedent have been very employee friendly and formalistic. This has resulted in...
Turkiye
expertise
Employment & Pensions
Employment is a rapidly developing area of regulation in CEE. Our employment specialists in the region can work in partnership with your legal and human resources teams to provide advice on all key aspects...
Romania
expertise
Employment & Pensions
For your business to be successful, you must manage your employees and their benefits as well as your employee representatives such as works councils and unions. Employers with occupational pension schemes...
United Kingdom
expertise
Employment & Pensions
For your business to be successful, you must manage your employees and their benefits as well as your employee representatives such as works councils and unions. Yet employment and pension law in Europe...
Netherlands
expertise
Employment and Pensions
We recognise the importance of corporate labour relations and maintain a strategic and global vision which enables us to provide comprehensive advice to clients in relation to the optimisation of their...
Spain
expertise
Environment
Companies face increasing regulatory, governance and public pressure to manage and minimise the impact of their business operations on the environment. At the same time the environment agenda is opening...
United Kingdom
expertise
Environment
The Environmental Practice has many years of experience in providing comprehensive advice in matters of international, European and Polish environmental protection law. The Polish Environmental Law Practice...
Poland
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Environment
Companies face increasing regulatory, governance and public pressure to manage and minimise the environmental impact of their business operations. At the same time the environmental agenda is opening...
Ukraine
expertise
Environment
Environmental law is constantly developing and is becoming increasingly complex and wider in scope under the influence of European law. Whether you're a property or industrial operator or a project owner...
France
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Environmental Law
Specialists in environmental law When preparing for and carrying out complex approval and planning procedures, as well as during ongoing operation of industrial plants, power lines, mines, etc., companies...
Germany
expertise
ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are at the forefront of corporate strategies, due to investor, customer and regulator expectations. The topic has been gaining momentum and is expected...
Belgium
expertise
ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are at the forefront of corporate strategies, due to investor, customer and regulator expectations. The topic has been gaining momentum and is expected...
Romania
expertise
ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are at the forefront of corporate strategies, due to investor, customer and regulator expectations. The topic has been gaining momentum and is expected...
Croatia
expertise
ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are at the forefront of corporate strategies, due to investor, customer and regulator expectations. The topic has been gaining momentum and is expected...
North Macedonia
expertise
ESG
Nowadays, various environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are a top priority matters in governmental projects and corporate regulations all around the world, as well as in the everyday lives...
Monaco
expertise
ESG
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are at the forefront of corporate strategies, due to investor, customer and regulator expectations. The topic has been gaining momentum and is expected...
Italy
expertise
ESG
ESG – Environmental, social and governance Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are at the forefront of corporate strategies, due to investor, customer and regulator expectations. The...
Switzerland
expertise
Insurance
CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni is a leading Italian firm for Insurance law. Many of our lawyers have worked and/or have been seconded in the insurance market (including the London market), which...
Italy
expertise
Labor, Employment & Pensions
Our 120+ employment lawyers in Germany are at the forefront of their field and leading innovators. They offer legal advice at the cutting edge: efficient, strategic and technically outstanding. With...
Germany
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Litigation
CMS Adonnino Ascoli & Cavasola Scamoni has a long lasting experience in both business litigation and for fiscal contentious matters. We believe our strength lie in the deep understanding of our clients'...
Italy
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Real Estate
CMS AACS’s real estate practice, also through its network of European offices, provides advice on the transfer and lease (including financial issues) of residential and commercial real estate, in Italy...
Italy
expertise
Real Estate
The Principality of Monaco's buoyant economy, political stability, safety, ease of access and central location within Europe, attractive tax measures, excellent education system and pleasant climate mean...
Monaco
expertise
Real Estate
As an investor, developer, occupier, construction consortium or asset manager, your real estate deals are executed to tight deadlines within complex local legal systems. If, for example, your property...
Switzerland
expertise
Real Estate
As an investor, developer, occupier, construction consortium or asset manager, your real estate deals are executed to tight deadlines within complex local legal systems. If, for example, your property...
Belgium
expertise
Real Estate
As an investor, developer, occupier, construction consortium or asset manager, your real estate deals are executed to tight deadlines within complex local legal systems. If, for example, your property...
Luxembourg
expertise
Real Estate
From the increasing importance of green issues to the emergence of coworking and coliving, the digitalisation of design, the marketing and use of properties, the planned obsolescence of buildings stock...
France
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