Kinstellar, in a consortium with BHO Legal, a boutique firm focusing on satellite and aviation projects, participated as equal partners in a tender offer for the provision of legal services to GNSS.
According to Kinstellar, "the focus of Kinstellar will be to provide legal advice and support for procurement, contract management related to security, as well as on regulatory and liability aspects related to security of the Galileo and EGNOS programs." According to the firm, ”they have concluded a contract, which can last up to four years, the maximum value for one contract being EUR 2 million, and the tasks will also concern intellectual property rights protection and management, matters related to transfers of technology.”
Zdenek Kucera, Kinstellar's Head of the Technology͵ Media & Telecommunications and Litigation practices, and who will lead Kinstellar's team on the matter, said: “We are happy to participate in such a unique communication technology project like Galileo. We believe that we succeeded in a unique area of services, and we can prove that we understand the legal aspects of security monitoring, penetration testing as well as technology procurements. Our mandate can last up to four years of cooperation and will involve advisors from Prague as well as our other offices.”
Kinstellar Partner Kamil Blazek added: “We formed a unique consortium combining a boutique firm with a special focus on aviation with an international firm with strong experience in the areas of security, information technology procurements and infrastructure. We believe that such a consortium of equal partners is a great combination for the GSA.”
The BHO Legal team is led by Partner Oliver Heinrich.
