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Former DLA Piper Partner Adriana Mierzwa-Bronikowska has joined Dentons’ Warsaw office with a team of four lawyers to form a Projects team to focus on infrastructure. As part of the same expansion move, Dentons also hired Former DLA Piper Counsel Aleksander Haleniuk, who joined as Counsel, and four additional lawyers.
CMS has advised the Via Salis consortium, comprising Vinci and Meridiam, on the D4 highway public-private partnership project in the Czech Republic. Kinstellar, working with Linklaters, advised the financing banks. White & Case advised the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic.
CMS has advised Toshiba International on a repair and rehabilitation agreement with the Bulgarian state-owned National Electricity Company for the pumping storage hydro power plant Chaira Unit 1.
Former Cakmak Attorney Partnership Partner Gokhan Okan has joined Ergun as a Partner.
Former Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe Vice-President of the Management Board Lukasz Mlynarkiewicz has joined Kochanski & Partners as a Partner in its Infrastructure, Energy, Environment, and ESG Practice Group and will also serve as the Head of the Nuclear Energy Practice.
BIT Law advises PUC Belgrade Metro and Train on a EUR 720 million design and build contract with contractor PowerChina for the civil works of the first phase of Line 1 of the Belgrade Metro, identifying Lot 2 as a distinct section.
Over the past two decades, the Greek State has increasingly relied on self-financing techniques for large-scale infrastructure projects, namely concession agreements and public-private partnership (PPP) agreements which differ from the traditional public works contracts first of all in terms of private financing (either through equity or bank financing) provided by the contractor against consideration. At the same time, the contractor assumes significant part of the associated economic and business risks.
