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Central and Eastern Europe Business and Tax Law
The European Union enlargement toward East of Europe and the
transition of all of the countries in the region to market economies has created major opportunities: Central and Eastern European countries have seen growth rates ranging generally from 4% to 8%; their manpower costs continue to be lower than in neighbouring Western European countries; the withdrawal of specific benefits for some activities has been replaced by a general decrease of taxation rates.
However, these benefits must not hide the existence of actual risks. For example, some former legislation and administrative practices continue to apply, and judges and members of regulatory bodies lack training and experience to implement new rules.
Given this changing environment, we offer our clients the security of our experience based on long-standing advisory services provided to foreign investors and governments in these countries, supported by a leading network of offices in Central and Eastern Europe.
Our areas of expertise
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Infrastructure and industrial installation projects
- implementing infrastructure projects in the scope of public and private sector partnerships: we advised the operator which was awarded the first BOT contract to build and operate a water treatment plant in Central Europe and the operator which was awarded the largest complete water concession for distributing drinking water
- analysing the risks and costs where submitting tenders to carry out public procurement contracts, form and legal regimes of grouping and consortium
- entering into and carrying out contracts for the erection of industrial projects (engineering, technology transfers, turnkey agreements, etc.)
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Optimising and securing intergroup operations
- multi-country analysis with a view to optimising use of tax systems and business creation rules
- optimising intergroup financial flows
- analysing and optimising international mobility and expatriation policies
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Investments
- business creation and cooperation, drawing up and negotiating joint venture agreements
- optimising the location of investment products from legal and tax perspectives
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Acquisitions, sales, restructurings, mergers
- legal due diligence
- drafting documentation and legal documents
- assisting negotiations
Our approach
Our combined experience and knowledge in France and Central and Eastern European countries enable lawyers in the CMS alliance of major independent law firms to provide their clients with high quality full-range services at each stage of studying and implementing their projects by taking into account French, local and international aspects.
In Paris, our clients benefit from almost 20 years' experience in advising companies developing activities in Central and Eastern European countries. We also participate in the development of the legal systems in these countries by carrying out assignments on behalf of their governments or international organisations.
We are supported by CMS alliance's local offices, with 400 lawyers in ten Central and Eastern European countries, which form the most highly dense network of international lawyers in this region: Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.
Moreover, the CMS alliance is recognised as one of the leading law and tax firms in this region. The CMS alliance won the Mergermarket award for the best law firm for mergers and acquisitions in Central and Eastern European countries and was nominated by Chambers Global as the East European law firm of the year.
Our clients
We advise French and foreign multinationals and small and mediumsized enterprises from all of the main industry sectors as well as international financial institutions and government bodies.
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