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TURNING POLICY INTO OPPORTUNITY

By: ZENONAS SANTIS Sep. 29, 2025

Legal and Strategic Support for the Future of Mobility

Each September, European Mobility Week (EMW) reminds us how rapidly urban mobility is changing. Cities close streets to cars, test low-emission zones, and encourage sustainable transport. For many, it may seem like a symbolic campaign. For lawyers, policymakers, and businesses, however, it is a signal of the regulatory and commercial shifts already underway.

Why This Matters for Leading Companies

The move toward sustainable mobility is not optional. It is driven by binding EU law (from clean vehicles directives to CO₂ performance standards), by municipal action (restrictions, incentives, zoning), and by market expectations (investors and consumers demanding greener choices).

For leading companies, this translates into:

  • Compliance Pressures: Ensuring operations align with EU and national transport, climate, and competition frameworks.
  • Regulatory Uncertainty: Adapting to fragmented local rules while anticipating EU-wide harmonisation.
  • Funding and Innovation Opportunities: Leveraging EU and national programmes to scale sustainable solutions.
  • Legal Risk: Preparing for challenges to restrictions, subsidies, or pilot projects tested in cities.

How We Support Our Clients

As legal advisors and public policy experts, we help clients — from municipalities to global mobility platforms — navigate this evolving landscape by providing:

  • Regulatory Guidance: Mapping EU and national legal requirements and ensuring compliance with competition, state aid, and environmental law.
  • Strategic Policy Engagement: Positioning clients effectively with regulators and policymakers at municipal, national, and EU level.
  • Funding Advisory: Unlocking access to EU funding streams such as Horizon Europe, the Cohesion Fund, and the Connecting Europe Facility.
  • Litigation & Risk Management: Defending or challenging regulatory measures, ensuring clients’ rights and commercial interests are protected.
  • Innovation Pilots: Structuring legally robust pilot projects in areas such as low-emission zones, shared mobility, and smart transport solutions.

Our Perspective

Mobility is one of the defining regulatory challenges of this decade. Companies operating at scale — whether in ride-hailing, micromobility, logistics, or infrastructure — need trusted advisors who understand both the legal intricacies and the policy direction.

Our work combines litigation experience in Cyprus and EU law with hands-on public policy engagement. This dual perspective enables us to act not just as legal counsel, but as strategic partners for clients who want to stay ahead of regulatory, commercial, and reputational risks.

Conclusion

European Mobility Week highlights a simple truth: the future of mobility will be regulated, competitive, and opportunity driven. Companies that prepare strategically will not only comply but thrive.

We stand ready to support municipalities, investors, and global mobility leaders in turning these challenges into long-term advantages.