Whether a German or an international company, private or public investor, association or municipality—with Dentons at your side, you are well advised on all public law issues. Trust us in all aspects of European, constitutional and administrative law as well as public policy—areas essential to your business.

We are familiar with all aspects of public law and are strongly committed to your interests. We have particular experience in the following areas:

• Environmental law
• Planning and building supervisory law
• Infrastructure law
• Public procurement and state aid
• Medical law (social law, pharmaceutical law and medical products regulations, pharmacy law, hospital financing and planning)
• Energy law
• Privacy laws
• Telecommunications
• Litigation before Administrative and Constitutional Courts

We support you with permits and approvals essential for your business and assist you in your day-to-day business in order to keep operational risks under control. In addition, we negotiate contracts under administrative law, provide profound expert opinions and offer public policy advice—also in legislative procedures. We incorporate our specialized public law expertise into legal due diligence assessments conducted by our Corporate, Finance and other practices.

Our clients include:

• German and international companies
• Private and public investors
• Public sector entities
• Associations
• Municipalities

In order to develop business-oriented, practical solutions, individually tailored to your needs, our practice group works in interdisciplinary teams with our Dentons offices globally. The focus of our cooperation lies particularly in the areas of real estate law, energy law, project financing, subsidies legislation and public procurement law, as well as cross-border work with North America, France, Spain and our Central and Eastern European offices.

Insights

New EU obligations to equip buildings with fiber-optic cables

March 6, 2023

EU: The EU Commission's draft Gigabit Infrastructure Act published on February 23, 2023 is designed to implement goals of the 2030 policy program for the digital decade. To facilitate gigabit rollout to end users, buildings are to be made "fiber ready". Learn about the possible implications that this upcoming regulation may have for real estate projects in our client alert.

Alternative Proteins Regulatory Tracker

January 23, 2023

Europe: The Alternative Proteins Regulatory Tracker was created to provide an overview of global regulatory regimes for this emerging sector. At its launch in January 2023, the tracker already covers 10 jurisdictions, including the EU and its 27 member states. More jurisdictions will follow.

Guide to self-cleaning in European public procurement procedures

April 13, 2021

With the increase in governments’ stimulus packages, the principles of fairness in competition and compliance with legal rules have proved relevant, enhancing how useful the self-cleaning option is. Understanding what it means and how to benefit from this second chance is all the more key to economic operators.

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Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises Palmira Capital Partners on four investment transactions in Germany and Poland

January 17, 2023

Global law firm Dentons has advised investment company Palmira Capital Partners on four separate transactions to acquire corporate and logistics properties in Germany and Poland. All acquisitions were completed in December 2022.

Dentons advises Qualitas Energy on partnership with Surplus Equity Partners to build a 200 MW wind farm portfolio

January 17, 2023

Global law firm Dentons has advised Qualitas Energy on a partnership with Surplus Equity Partners to build a comprehensive wind energy portfolio in Germany.

Dentons advises Volkswagen software subsidiary CARIAD on acquisition of AI specialist, paragon semvox

December 13, 2022

Germany: Global law firm Dentons has advised CARIAD, the software company of the Volkswagen Group, on its acquisition of AI specialist, paragon semvox GmbH, a subsidiary of listed automotive supplier paragon. With the acquisition, CARIAD strengthens its competencies in the field of digital voice assistants based on artificial intelligence. 

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