Expertise

We provide comprehensive and extensive advice on real estate mergers and acquisitions and asset deals, development, planning and zoning matters, complex construction agreements, real estate litigation, real estate tax structuring and real estate project finance. We have been involved in virtually all major real estate projects that have taken place over the past years in Romania.

Our advice encompasses:

Acquisition and sale of office and residential buildings

We advise clients on all stages of the process, from the due diligence and acquisition process, throughout the development phase (drafting standard form of lease/reservation/sale-purchase agreements and negotiations with counterparties as well as permitting matters) until the exit process.

Acquisition and sale of retail/shopping centers/logistic parks

We provide advice with respect to land acquisition, construction and permitting process during the development, preparing lease agreements according to the particularities of each development and ensuring the daily management of contracts and operations.

Acquisition and sale of lands

We regularly assist clients in the preparation of the initial letters of intent and memoranda of understanding and in the due diligence process on title, permitting, environment and tax efficiency.

Development of residential buildings

We advise clients in relation to permitting and zoning matters, drafting reservation agreements, pre-sale-purchase and sale-purchase agreements as well as condominium rules and assist them in managing their relationship with the public authorities.

Development of office/industrial/logistic parks

We provide our clients with well structured lease agreements and sound commercial reasoning during negotiations for the lease of their projects.

Development of retail parks/shopping centers

We assist clients in the development of shopping centers by drafting construction contracts, ensuring the most feasible solutions with the authorities for related infrastructure works that shopping centers usually require and by drafting and negotiating lease agreements for both anchor and small tenants to medium retail stores.

Development of wind farms

We provide assistance ranging from the structuring of the best alternative for securing long term relevant land plots for wind farm developments (both from a permitting and tax-friendly perspective) to finding functional legal solutions for various concessions and associations with the public authorities.

Leases

We provide advice that includes drafting and negotiating, both on the landlord and tenant side, all type of lease agreements (from office buildings, retail parks and shopping centers to industrial parks).

FIDIC-based construction contracts

We provide unparalleled experience regarding FIDIC-based contracts and dispute resolution; our lawyers having undergone intensive international training courses on FIDIC contracts.

Infrastructure

We have broad expertise in concession agreements, public-private real estate partnerships as well as joint-venture agreements with public authorities.

Financing of real estate projects

We provide advice with respect to documenting and structuring financings, drafting financial facilities agreements and security documents as well as ensuring regulatory compliance.

Key projects