Regional & Local Authorities / Public Sector

State institutions und public enterprises operate in a legal environment that is becoming increasingly challenging. Binder Grösswang has been advising on legal issues in this sector for a long time and, as a strategic partner, provides customized, practical solutions.

Regional and local authorities, state institutions and public enterprises are having to deal with an increasing complexity of economic challenges and a growing intensity of regulation. This has led to a high demand for the kind of interdisciplinary legal counsel, combined with comprehensive sector-specific know-how, that Binder Grösswang provides.

Our experts have been advising actors in the public sector for many years. Our clients include regional and local authorities and municipal enterprises (such as public transport companies, health institutions and public or non-profit housing construction companies) as well as public enterprises (e.g. infrastructure companies or energy companies that are partly or entirely publicly owned). Particular focuses in the public sector are the fields of public administration, transport, energy, healthcare, housing construction and maintenance, public broadcasting, and infrastructure.

Our focus
 

• Public procurement
• Structuring of transactions (M&A, real estate, etc.) and subsidy programs in compliance with state-aid law
• Support of funding bodies in the processing of subsidy programs
• Counsel on competition law / merger proceedings
• Assertion of claims on grounds of antitrust violations
• Counsel in the field of digitalization and new media
• Sustainability matters / ESG
• Legally compliant business practices, taking into account the requirements of the Austrian Court of Audit (compliance)
• Implementation of compliance management systems (codes of conduct, whistleblower systems, etc.)
• Public private partnerships
• Privatizations
• Counsel on proposed legislation
• Public service law, drafting of contracts in divested companies, support with proceedings before administrative courts and courts of public law
• Representation of public enterprises before regulatory authorities and in civil proceedings / arbitral proceedings