CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hasche Sigle offers comprehensive legal services to clients from the public sector as well as private investors, development companies, banks and other financing institutions. Together with the other CMS member firms, we have been involved in many significant and ground-breaking infrastructure and public projects throughout the world.

These types of projects are often quite complex and necessitate that CMS calls together legal teams of specialists from the areas of public law, procurement, construction, corporate, banking and finance, labour and tax law.

Comprehensive Legal and Tax Services

The CMS Infrastructure and Project Finance Sector Group, made up by experts from all nine CMS member firms from all over Europe, offers comprehensive legal and tax services related to the design, construction, financing, operation, maintenance and insurance of infrastructure projects and project finance, including:

• Concession agreements
• Conception of projects
• DBFO agreements
• PPP/PFI service agreements
• Service concession agreements
• Public works concession contracts
• Construction, O&M and FM contracts
• Legal advice and representation in contractual negotiations
• Commercial bank, development bank, capital markets and ECA documentation
• Invitations to tender and award of contracts
• Legal representation in procurement review proceedings
• Equity and subordinated debt investments
• Joint venture or consortium agreements
• EU and other international procurement directives as well as national public procurement laws
• Health and safety issues

Clients Benefit from Our Experience

Clients benefit from a wide range of experience we developed in our tight CMS network that covers all of Europe, but also extends to Africa, Asia and the Americas. We work closely with sponsors, lenders and the public sector, which means that our advice is realistic, practical, commercial and, above all, based upon previous experience of having addressed many of the issues involved.

Our clients come from a wide variety of sectors:

• Public sector
• Sponsors / private sector
• Banks and other lenders
• Health care services
• Education
• Infrastructure, construction engineering and planning
• Telecommunications
• Sport and leisure
• Transportation, traffic
• Electricity, gas, oil and water
• Information technology