Zepos & Yannopoulos has advised mandated lead arrangers and coordinators Piraeus Bank and Eurobank on the financing for the 35-year concession agreement regarding the financing, operation, maintenance, and exploitation rights of the Egnatia Odos Motorway and its three vertical road axes.

There are few healthcare reforms that could be called revolutionary. Even fewer have been initiated in the courtroom. Case C-412/23 could be one of those rare cases. On July 5, 2023, the European Commission brought an action against the Slovak Republic for allegedly infringing Directive 2011/7 on combating late payment in commercial transactions by continuously failing in 2015, 2016, 2017, and from 2018 onward to ensure that public entities providing healthcare pay their commercial debts within a maximum period of 60 calendar days.

BSJP BNT has advised Saab on finalizing a PLN 230 million contract for the supply of two Saab 340 airborne early warning and control aircraft and related ground equipment, logistical, and training support to the Polish Armed Forces.

In public procurement, the term bid rigging (also called collusive tendering) describes unlawful agreements between bidders with the intention of distorting the competition in award procedures and allowing a preferred tenderer to win the public contract while giving the impression that the process is truly competitive. The hidden agenda is often to force a high contract price that is not appropriate given the state of the market.

Moravcevic Vojnovic and Partners, in cooperation with Schoenherr, has advised Alstom Transport on the execution of a consulting agreement for the construction of the Belgrade metro.

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