Real Estate Law
Providing a customised assistance for all types of real estate assets (industrial, tertiary, hotels and residential)
We advise real estate professionals and users on all of their real estate issues.
We assist them with sales and purchases (share and asset deals), portfolio reorganisations, asset outsourcing, joint ventures, drafting and negotiation of leases, construction projects employing the best-suited contractual framework, drafting and negotiation of agreements related to the building design and construction.
- Sales and purchases of real estate assets (either directly through an asset Deal, or indirectly through a share deal
- Legal due diligence
- Defining the legal framework for an investment
- Drafting and negotiating the agreements related to the acquisition and the financing of a real estate asset.
- Litigation: enforcement of guarantees, , guarantees forced execution of a promise to sell
- Advising on all types of asset and, therefore, all types of lease (commercial, professional, civil, residential, long-term and construction leases)
- Leasehold property due diligence
- Drafting, negotiating, implementing and renewing leases
- Drafting and negotiating leases in future state of completion, which requires careful drafting of the provisions regarding the period between the date the lease is signed and the actual property delivery date
- Drafting, negotiating and reviewing lease management agreements
- Advising and assisting at the pre-litigation stage or during legal proceedings to resolve a dispute: rents and charges recovering, , termination clause enforcement, lease termination, leases renewals, rent reviews, eviction compensation, acceptance and validation oftermination notice, early termination settlement agreement , etc.)
- Advising for the their legal structuring of the real estate transactions
- Drafting and negotiating construction contracts (property development contracts, Project Owner’s Representation Agreement, Project Owner’s Assistance Agreementt, general contractor agreements, specialised contractors, construction lease, lease in state of future completion
- Drafting and negotiating underlying design contracts (architect’s contracts)
- Construction disputes: expert appraisals, legal and contractual warranties, preventive summary proceedings, summary proceeding for an expert appraisal, architect’s and builder’s liability, etc.)
- Advising with the sale and purchase of hotels (directly through an asset deal or indirectly through an share deal or a business transfer agreement)
- Drafting and negotiating all forms of hotel agreements (leases, hotel management agreement , lease management agreements)
- Advising on the legal structure tailored to the acquisition of project companies
- Advising on the drafting and negotiating of the underlying real estate documentation dealing with financing issues (construction leases, long-term land leases, civil law leases)
