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As a sponsor, lender or public sector organisation, you require legal advisors who can help you to successfully handle complex infrastructure transactions and projects in time. Whether you are involved in projects related to health, education, waste & water, energy, defence, leisure, custodial & justice, IT/telecoms, public buildings, ports, rail, roads or aviation, you will get the legal advice you need from us. With over 200 lawyers working in this sector, we can support you in virtually any industry sector and any part of the world including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Americas.

We have delivered numerous deals in the infrastructure sector with a combined value of many billions of euros, advising on public private partnerships, energy and renewables projects, including the largest offshore wind farms in Europe, infrastructure and utilities investments. If complex project financing is an issue, CMS is the right choice to facilitate solutions between sponsors, lenders and the capital markets. We have done so for international finance institutions such as EIB, EBRD or World Bank and for the most reputable commercial banks.

If you are an investor selling or buying an interest in a concession, a utility business or a PPP deal or if you bid for a contract, you need expert guidance through the complex bidding process. CMS has available experts in applicable national laws on concessions and public procurement. Finally you may want your advisor to help you avoid pitfalls of tax law or public accounting.

Our lawyers have expertise across these sectors, ensuring quick deal completions on terms that make your risks manageable, obey your internal processes and 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.


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21/03/2023
Work­ing for a UK em­ploy­er: Croa­tian work­ers fa­cing a dif­fi­cult de­cision:...
Brexit has res­ul­ted in sig­ni­fic­ant changes to con­tri­bu­tion re­quire­ments, re­gis­tra­tion, and pay­ment ob­lig­a­tions for Croa­tian cit­izens em­ployed by UK-based em­ploy­ers. The reg­u­la­tion on the co­ordin­a­tion...
20/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Con­sid­er­a­tions for pat­entees in opt­ing...
So far in this series of blog posts, we began with an art­icle that high­lighted some of the key changes between the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and the new Unit­ary Pat­ent...
16/03/2023
Mer­ger con­trol re­view be­low fil­ing thresholds – the ECJ Tower­cast judg­ment...
On 16 March 2023, the ECJ de­cided that a M&A trans­ac­tion, which was not sub­ject to ex-ante EU mer­ger con­trol, can be re­viewed – from an ex post per­spect­ive – as to wheth­er the ac­quirer (through the...
09/03/2023
Se­cur­ity for costs in en­force­ment pro­ceed­ings in Ger­many – The Ger­man Fed­er­al...
Pur­su­ant to Sec. 110 of the Ger­man Civil Pro­ced­ure Code (ZPO), claimants who do not have their ha­bitu­al place of res­id­ence in a mem­ber state of the EU/the EEA can be ordered to provide se­cur­ity for the...
09/03/2023
CMS Ex­pert Guide to ESG Com­pens­a­tion
In­cor­por­at­ing ESG KPIs in­to dir­ect­ors’ re­mu­ner­a­tionThe ur­gent need to place sus­tain­ab­il­ity at the heart of com­pany strategy is in­ex­tric­ably linked to in­cent­ives provided to its dir­ect­ors and em­ploy­ees. This...
08/03/2023
Out with the old, in with the new? Pro­ced­ur­al fea­tures of the Uni­fied Pat­ent...
In our pre­vi­ous art­icle, we looked at the cur­rent European sys­tem of pat­ent pro­sec­u­tion and en­force­ment and high­lighted some of the key changes that will be com­ing with the new Unit­ary Pat­ent and Uni­fied...
06/03/2023
Fu­ture im­pact of emer­ging tech­no­lo­gies on IP pro­tec­tion and en­force­ment...
As tech­no­logy de­vel­ops rap­idly, the way in which stake­hold­ers pro­tect and en­force their in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty (IP) is chan­ging and will con­tin­ue to change in the fu­ture, but how? And should ex­ist­ing IP...
28/02/2023
New EU sanc­tions against Rus­sia
On 25 Feb­ru­ary 2023, one year after Rus­sia star­ted its in­va­sion of Ukraine, the EU ad­op­ted its tenth sanc­tions pack­age against Rus­sia. To­geth­er with the ex­ist­ing sanc­tions the European Com­mis­sion con­siders...
21/02/2023
UK reg­u­lat­or joins the glob­al en­force­ment trend and warns em­ploy­ers to...
The over­lap between em­ploy­ees’ rights and com­pet­i­tion law has long been pre­dicted by com­pet­i­tion spe­cial­ists. Car­tel en­force­ment in la­bour mar­ket agree­ments be­came a fledgling activ­ity of com­pet­i­tion...
20/02/2023
Sun­rise peri­od of the Uni­fied Pat­ent Court to be­gin 1 March
After the fi­nal ver­sion of the UPC Rules of Pro­ced­ure had been ad­op­ted and the judges of the UPC had been se­lec­ted and ap­poin­ted, the start of the Sun­rise Peri­od, ori­gin­ally planned for 1 Janu­ary 2023...
03/02/2023
On your radar | Is­sue 20 | Key em­ploy­ment is­sues to be aware of in­ter­na­tion­ally
Wel­come to the first edi­tion of On your radar for 2023, which high­lights ex­pec­ted em­ploy­ment law de­vel­op­ments over the year ahead.Changes range from big pic­ture con­cepts around fu­ture ways of work­ing...
30/01/2023
Emer­ging Europe M&A Re­port 2022/2023
The year 2022 star­ted with vari­ous chal­lenges, in­clud­ing rising in­fla­tion and en­ergy prices. Then the Rus­si­an in­va­sion of Ukraine ad­ded yet an­oth­er one. Non­ethe­less, the M&A mar­ket in emer­ging European coun­tries proved to be ex­tremely re­si­li­ent. The re­gion saw M&A activ­ity main­tain a steady pace, though deal val­ues were not­ably lower. Also, vari­ations could be ob­served across ter­rit­or­ies and sec­tors. While 2022 brought a unique set of chal­lenges, deal­mak­ing largely com­pared fa­vour­ably to pre-pan­dem­ic levels.Wel­come to the 2022/23 edi­tion of the Emer­ging Europe re­port.