US firm Wilmer Cutler & Pickering has been appointed by the Berlin Airport Project Company to structure the privatisation of three Berlin airports, and subsequent closure of two of them. The present shareholders, the German government and the states of Brandenburg and Berlin, plan to use private finance for the intended expansion in 2002 of Schonefeld Airport, which it is estimated, will cost in the region of $4.9bn. Schonefeld will be the only airport serving the city of Berlin after the closure of Tegel and Tempelhof airports. Wilmer Cutler & Pickering will work alongside German firm Bruckhaus Westrick Stegermann and investment bank Barclays de Zoete on the deal.
Counting on MDPs
The new Government has surprised its critics as much as its supporters with the energy with which it has struck out on a programme of broad reform. Liberalising the legal profession may not be an issue that leaps into newspaper headlines, but if the Government attacks it with the verve it has shown in other […]
