Governments & Public Sectors

The firm's work covers the full range of public sector issues: governance, privatization operations, project financing, contracts and public procurement, economic regulation and regulation, institutional organization, outsourcing or spinning-off of activities, public-private partnerships and more.

A protean dimension

Today’s public sector involves a wide variety of players, and is far from confined to public bodies alone. In addition to the traditional players (State, local authorities, public establishments), the public sector in its broadest sense is also made up of a growing number of para-public or private structures, which have taken over certain activities previously managed by public bodies.

From the outset, UGGC Avocats has embraced the protean, multi-disciplinary dimension of the public sector, with a public law department that is one of the largest among business law firms, and which has also developed work habits that involve the firm’s other departments to a very large extent.

As a result, we are in a position to support all the key players in this sector, whether they be public bodies, semi-public or private entities operating public service activities, or the private partners of these entities (concessionaires and, more broadly, the administration’s co-contractors, operators of private activities linked to the public sector, etc.).

Our dedicated, often cross-functional, teams are made up of lawyers from the Public Business Law department, as well as lawyers from other departments (corporate law, tax law, banking, competition law, etc.) who are used to working on complex cases involving several areas of expertise, and thus to understanding the issues specific to the public sector.