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Expert Economics Consultancy FOR STATE AID
State aid control helps ensure that public money is used effectively, with as little distortion to competition and trade as possible.
In recent years, State aid rules have played a central role in the green transition of traditional industries. They have enabled large-scale public funding for green investment, as part of the EU’s ambition to lead in green industry. State aid rules also help to:
Promote tax fairness among large multinationals
Soften the impact of recent economic disruptions
Ensure fair competition from foreign companies through the Foreign Subsidies Regulation
Why economic analysis is essential
Rigorous economic and financial analyses are fundamental to the framework used to assess whether measures constitute State aid. They also show whether any aid is proportionate and avoids undue distortion of competition.
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We provide practical, tailored economic and strategic advice for private clients, authorities, and state-owned companies across all types of State aid projects. We use our expertise in corporate finance, tax issues, and transfer pricing to help our clients solve complex problems. We present our rigorous analyses clearly, so they stand up to the scrutiny from authorities and courts.
Our State aid team is made up of international experts with experience in applying economic and financial methods to State aid cases. We blend our core expertise in economics and finance with sector knowledge in energy markets, postal services, telecoms, and transport.
We regularly support clients with economic and financial analysis in the following areas:
Aid notifications and funding applications, including funding gap analysis, under frameworks such as CEEAG, IPCEI, and the GBER
State aid investigations before the European Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA)
Assessing whether a measure constitutes State aid, including whether it is on market terms under the MEOP
Quantifying damages from unlawful State aid
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We support clients in notification processes under a wide set of State aid guidelines. We assist in drafting applications, either in part of in part, typically in collaboration with our clients’ legal and technical project teams. We conduct funding gap analyses for assessing the proportionality and incentive effect of aid measures and to develop analyses of the competitive effects of aid in the context of compatibility assessments.
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We assist clients in State aid investigations before the European Commission and the EFTA Surveillance Authority. We provide economic argumentation to respond to complaints including, in some cases, NPV and WACC evaluation and calculations, and gap assessments.
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We support clients in compliance work by assessing whether a proposed subsidy qualifies for State aid. We assess if a public measure was granted on market terms and under what conditions a planned public measure could be designed to be granted on market terms by applying the Market Economy Operator Principle (MEOP)
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We assist clients in the quantification of damages in instances where illegal State aid has resulted in damages being awarded to third parties. The quantification of damages requires economic analysis of the economic effects of the aid.
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