Automotive & Aviation

The automotive and aviation industry is undergoing disruptive changes worldwide. Technology, digital, and market-driven trends bring with them new and evolving legal challenges. Digitalization, vehicle connectivity, electrification, automatic driving, and car sharing are among key developments we are seeing bringing automation, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and interconnectivity to operations. This comes with a set of unique opportunities and challenges for the manufacturing and industrial sectors. We advise some most innovative names in the business and several of our lawyers have worked with clients in the automotive aviation and mobility sectors, and have specialist sector expertise across our corporate, compliance, commercial, intellectual property, competition, and financing law teams who understand disruptive technology and the most current regulatory trends and evolving business models. We work with every industry stakeholder including infrastructure operators, service providers, airlines, banks, financiers, and lessors. Our services include acquisition and disposal of assets, restructuring or finance operations and new projects, set up of joint ventures, access to new technologies, optimization of tax structures and industrial relations frameworks, dispute resolution, and regulatory compliance regarding market power and safety requirements, as well as manufacturing; sub-concession contracts; service agreements; a full range of airport-related commercial agreements; acquisition, finance, registration, and leasing; regulatory and compliance; mergers & acquisitions; tendering for sub-concessions and service agreements.