Rico Kaßmann

Rico advises private and public sector clients on all aspects of public commercial law. His main areas of expertise are state aid and subsidy law, public procurement law and the law governing regulated markets (infrastructure, transport and energy/renewables). His clients include public financial institutions and public authorities as well as national and international companies and utilities, which he regularly advises on complex and politically sensitive projects and transactions with public law implications.

Work highlights

• Uniper: advising comprehensively in the State aid proceedings on the multi-billion stabilisation package in favour of Uniper
• Federal Government/KfW: State aid and public law advice on the development and financing of a new LNG infrastructure for the import of liquefied natural gas in Brunsbüttel.
• KfW: long-standing advice on various matters, e.g. the COVID-19 and Ukraine related special loan programme to support the German economy, and regular advice on state aid re: KfW’s participation in blended impact funds.
• Consortium of Kinetic and Globalvia: advising on their £669m recommended offer for the international bus and railway operator The Go-Ahead Group plc.
• GlaxoSmithKline: advising in a long and complex tender process for the award of a pandemic preparedness contract, including negotiations with the Federal Republic of Germany
• hsh finanzfonds AöR and the German Länder Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein: advising on the stabilisation and privatisation of state-owned HSH Nordbank, hsh portfoliomanagement on the agency’s establishment, operationalisation and, most recently, its termination and liquidation.

Rico studied law at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and at the University College London. In addition, he completed his doctoral studies in international law with a Research stay in Strasbourg.