Practice Areas

Projects & Infrastructure

Overview

Projects work is where the firm moves as one. Infrastructure and development transactions draw on corporate, finance, real estate, public law, procurement, competition, employment, tax and disputes at once, and the quality of the advice depends on how coherently those strands are held together. Drawing on over three decades of infrastructure experience, we run projects as a coordinated effort under a single lead partner, with the commercial and legal picture managed in one place.

Our experience covers energy, with particular emphasis on conventional and renewable power generation, electricity and gas transmission and distribution, storage and grid connection; transport and logistics, including ports, airports, roads and rail; water, wastewater and desalination projects; digital infrastructure; hospitality, tourism and mixed-use developments; and public-procurement-led infrastructure programmes. We support private-sector clients, government bodies and public institutions from early-stage structuring and bidding through land assembly, permitting, construction, financing and operation, and into refinancing, disposals and secondary-market transactions.

Greek infrastructure sits at the intersection of national regulation, EU procurement and State aid rules, public funding frameworks, environmental and permitting requirements, land and real estate constraints, and the contractual architecture familiar from international project finance. We are comfortable moving between these layers and coordinating with Greek and foreign counsel where a project has a cross-border dimension.

Our role is to keep complex projects executable: identifying the legal issues that affect timetable, bankability and risk allocation, aligning the relevant workstreams, and helping clients move from concept to delivery without losing sight of the commercial objective.

KEY CONTACTS
Yanos Gramatidis
George Alexandris

Services

We advise on energy and utilities projects under Greek law, including conventional and renewable power generation, electricity and gas transmission and distribution, storage, grid connection, water, wastewater and desalination infrastructure. Our clients include developers, investors, lenders, utilities, offtakers and strategic operators, with work spanning development, acquisition, financing, construction, operation and exit.

We support clients on transport, logistics and digital infrastructure projects, including ports, airports, roads, rail, logistics facilities, data centres, fibre networks and other critical infrastructure assets. Our work covers project structuring, site and asset issues, commercial contracts, regulatory approvals, financing, development risk and operational arrangements.

We advise on hospitality, tourism and mixed-use development projects, including hotels, resorts, serviced residences, branded residences and related real estate-led investments. Our work covers land assembly, title and planning issues, permitting, development structures, hotel management and operating arrangements, financing, construction, leasing, branding and exit considerations.

We advise contracting authorities, bidders, sponsors and investors on public procurement, concessions and public-private partnerships under Greek and EU law. Our work includes tender strategy, bid preparation, procurement challenges, concession structures, PPP documentation and the allocation of construction, demand, operational and regulatory risk between public and private parties.

We advise employers, contractors, developers and project companies on construction and engineering contracts, including FIDIC-based and domestic arrangements. Our work covers contract negotiation, risk allocation, payment mechanics, variations, delay issues, claims management, interface risk and dispute avoidance during delivery.

We advise lenders, sponsors, investors and project vehicles on the financing, refinancing and acquisition of infrastructure, energy, utilities, hospitality and development assets. Our work includes security structures, intercreditor arrangements, direct agreements, step-in rights, lender due diligence, permitting, regulatory workstreams, public law issues and secondary-market transactions involving operational or development-stage projects.

Featured Work

  • Advised on the Revithoussa natural gas pipeline and terminal facilities, a foundational Greek energy infrastructure project.
  • Advised on North Aegean oil-drilling projects for Texaco Inc., Hellenic Overseas Holding Ltd and Regal Petroleum plc, spanning significant hydrocarbons exploration activity in Greece.
  • Advised on the natural gas distribution system for the Attica area, including work with Shell International on the distribution network.
  • Advised Techem Energy Contracting on a co-generation energy plant joint venture in Northern Greece.
  • Advised on renewable energy projects in Greece, including wind-farm developments and solar installations.
  • Advised EYDAP, the Athens Water Supply & Sewerage Company, on wastewater treatment in Metamorphosis, Attica and water treatment at Lake Trichonida.
  • Advised Hutchison Port Holdings Limited and Hutchison Ports Investments S.à r.l. on tender procedures for container-terminal concessions at the ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki.
  • Advised on the Peloponnese Railway Station development in Piraeus under a long-term concession arrangement with GaiaOSE S.A.
  • Advised the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee on hotel contract negotiations for all Athens-area hotels and on the Olympic Games security project, the C4I system, for the Ministry of Defence.
  • Advised on multiple PPP projects for Greek municipalities, including the Municipality of Karpenisi City Hall and Commercial Centre, Municipality of Korydallos underground garages, Municipality of Patras parking areas, Municipality of Rethymnon parking and City Hall project, and Municipality of Alexandroupolis old hospital development.
  • Advised FACTORY INTERNATIONAL S.A.R.L. on a PPP innovation hub in Athens.
  • Served as adviser to the Greek Government, through the Ministry of Development, on energy project financing and participated with the European Commission on the introduction of Third Party Financing in Greece.
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