TIGGES

Our rail competence team provides comprehensive advice on all key industry topics. These include transport and forwarding contracts, approval, purchase and leasing of railway vehicles, maintenance contracts, handling of railway accidents, and industry-specific employment law. In addition, we support our clients in complex areas of procurement practice, regulatory matters, and official supervision. This covers tenders, complaint procedures and exemption applications, as well as permits and administrative measures.

When it comes to cooperation with competitors and corporate transactions, including antitrust issues, our clients likewise rely on our expertise. In antitrust law, we also handle market abuse proceedings, merger control and notifications, and advise on compliance matters as well as on distribution antitrust law.

We regularly represent our clients in proceedings concerning specific rail-related issues before national and European courts (General Court / ECJ).

Our team combines specialized, cross-disciplinary legal expertise with a deep understanding of the rail sector and its technical aspects. With over two decades of experience, we know the industry well and have supported stakeholders throughout the process of railway privatization in Europe. We regularly publish articles in leading professional journals on current legal topics affecting the industry. Lectures and in-house training sessions round off our range of services

We can assist you in these areas:

• Contract drafting
• Personnel issues, including collective labour law
• Authorisation, purchase and lease of railway vehicles
• M&A transactions
• Tenders
• Cartel law issues
• Handling of railway accidents
• Representation before the EU Agency for Railways (ERA), the German Federal Railway Authority (EBA) and the state supervisory authorities (Landesaufsicht)
• Representation before the German Federal Network Agency (BNetzA)
• Representation before the German civil and administrative courts as well as the General Court and the Court of Justice of the EU

Transportation & Logistics Law

Our team provides assistance to logistic companies based in Germany and abroad in connection with all transportation law matters. This applies in particular to freight transport by rail, road, air and multimodal transport chains. Our team has special know-how in all questions of rail, freight forwarding and air freight law. Here we represent well-known, globally operating companies and also take care of all permit law issues. This also includes administrative proceedings before the Federal Network Agency.

Moreover, we represent goods consignors in connection with problems with carriers engaged by them, for example with regard to loss of or damage to goods. For transportation insurers as well as for goods consignors we conduct contentious disputes before national and international courts and arbitration tribunals.