Public Subsidies and State Aid
Advising on public subsidies and state aid is one of our main areas of expertise. Our lawyers regularly advise international corporations, large and medium-sized companies, and public authorities on issues relating to funding law. This includes advising on funding law in relation to planned large-scale projects, representing clients in state aid proceedings before national and European authorities and courts, and advising on funding law in connection with M&A projects. Our state aid team has many years of expertise in advising on subsidies at federal and state level as well as on subsidies within the European framework (IPCEI, Horizon Europe, ESA, etc.).
held jaguttis has advised on the following projects in connection with public funding:
- Advising a major German corporation on IPCEI funding (€500 million) for a planned large-scale project (construction and R&D) in cooperation with a listed US corporation
- Obtaining funding (€20 million) for the construction of a partial permanent establishment (infrastructure) for a large company with a foreign parent company
- Advising a German high-tech company on funding under the EU Horizon Europe program and on amending the grant agreement to adjust work packages
- Advising an international investor on research subsidies under the German
Research Subsidies Act for a German healthcare start-up - Advising a company in the new space sector in connection with state, federal, EU, and ESA funding
- Advising a major German city on how to proceed against unlawful infrastructure funding for a competing event arena
- Advising an e-mobility start-up on R&D subsidies for the development of electric vehicles
- Advising a German industrial company on how to deal with a large number of ongoing and completed R&D grants (federal, EU) in connection with a carve-out asset deal and the upcoming sale to a foreign investor (non-EU)
- Advising an investor on possible subsidies for the establishment of a permanent establishment