Public Private Partnership (PPP)
As public budgets tighten, authorities are collaborating ever more closely with the private sector to plan, build, finance and manage a wide variety of infrastructure projects, including:
- schools
- sports facilities and cultural institutions
- administrative buildings and courts
- roads, bridges and tunnels
- airports and regional rail transport infrastructure
- water, waste water and waste disposal facilities
- energy supply
Our expertise:
At every one of our locations, we offer you the expertise bundled within our PPP specialised practice group. We have a network of economic and technical experts to assist us in providing you with comprehensive support in structuring and realising your PPP project. Over the course of a large number of joint projects, these specialists have demonstrated their ability to provide indispensable non-legal services with the highest level of professionalism, such as the preparation of feasibility studies, a common requirement.
- Basic project structure
Identification of project stakeholders, formation of special purpose vehicles, if necessary, taking into account the various forms of participation under company law, development of a suitable contract award and contract model
- Public procurement and contract law
Structuring and implementation of the public procurement procedure including preparation of the notice together with the suitability and award criteria, drafting and negotiation of necessary contractual documents, support in preparation of other public procurement documents such as the output-specific performance specification etc., support in ongoing documentation of the procedure
- Public law, budget and municipal law
Clarification of the public law boundary conditions and the budget law concerns of the project
- Subsidy law, state aid law
Co-ordination of subsidy and state aid law framework conditions for successful or necessary project applications and pre-notification discussions with the European Commission and for the avoidance risks of invalidity and claims for return of the subsidy or aid
- Labour and tax law and insolvency precautions
Consideration of tax and labour law issues (socially acceptable personnel concepts), mitigation of the insolvency risk, for example, through step-in clauses
Through its own academic studies and specific project experience, the PPP specialised practice group has built up the expertise you require in your project. We work to reduce the complexity of your project whilst fostering transparent and fair competition amongst as many bidders as possible. The fact that all of our locations are linked in through the specialised practice group makes it possible for us to offer you the full range of our expertise – no matter where you are – and bring your project to a successful conclusion.
Your contact persons:
Dr. Hendrik Röwekamp, Duesseldorf
Tel.: 02 11 / 60 05 00-42
hendrik.roewekamp@kapellmann.de
Dr. Heiko Fuchs, Moenchengladbach
Tel.: 0 21 61 / 8 11-615
heiko.fuchs@kapellmann.de
To tap into the expertise you are looking for, contact the PPP specialised practice group today.
