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Family Law
Germany
Dr. Cornelia Maetschke-Biersack
Taylor Wessing has a well-established state aid and procurement practice with particular strength in infrastructure, healthcare and public finance. The team advises on the financing and privatisation of airlines, airports and ports, and regularly supports hospital operators and public authorities on the state aid compliance of hospital funding structures. Antitrust specialist Marco Hartmann-Rüppel heads the group, in which Michael Brüggemann is also a central contact, advising public sector bodies and private entities on R&D aid, grants and funding instruments, and representing clients before the European Commission and EU courts in state aid investigations, notifications and complaints.
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Key clients
- Aerotech Peissenberg GmbH & Co.KG
- Boehm, Volker (Schultze & Braun Insolvenzverwalter)
- Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Flughafen Frankfurt Hahn GmbH / Brinkmann & Partner (Insolvenzverwalter)
- Flughafen München GmbH
- Hotel Alexander am Zoo KG
- ODDSET Sportwetten GmbH
- Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin (NUM) / WMC Healthcare GmbH
- ECE
- REWE-ZENTRALFINANZ eG
Work highlights
Advising REWE-ZENTRALFINANZ eG on the acquisition of I.D.-Riva Tours GmbH: Due diligence review of the subsidies received and assessment of the transaction’s impact on the target company's existing funding.
Advising Boehm, Volker (Schultze & Braun insolvency administrator) on state aid law on the sale of assets from the insolvency of naturheld GmbH, in particular on possible effects (repayment obligations) on BAFA subsidies received.
Advising Flughafen München GmbH and DLH on the implementation of a public-private partnership for the expansion of a terminal at Munich Airport in compliance with EU state aid law.
Practice head
Marco Hartmann-Rüppel
Other key lawyers
Michael Brüggemann