The real estate practice is headed by Nicolas Cohen-Steiner,
who holds a Certificate of Specialisation in real estate law.
The team has vast experience in advising and litigating on real estate
issues such as the acquisition, construction, management, financing and
legal engineering of real estate.
Acquisition, management and financing
Lease audits
Advice on the drafting of preliminary contracts and transfer deeds
or agreements, whether made by a sale of shares of the owner company
or by the transfer of the property itself
Financing of acquisition operations, real-estate leasing, leaseback,
lease cum sale, long term and construction leases
Managing pre-litigation and compensation of immobilisation, forced
sales, sales on auction, judiciary mortgage, expropriation
Construction
Transactional, amicable resolution and disputes work regarding
agreements between owners, contractors, insurers and other industry
players during the pre to post-construction stages
Preventive litigation proceedings
Property management
Law of co-ownership of built buildings, interventions with
co-owners, tenants and labour bodies
Transactional work on commercial leases and renewals
Commercial lease litigation (court fixation of rent, eviction
and compensation)
Transactional and dispute work on “fonds de commerce” (going
concerns including a right to a commercial lease)
Housing and professional leases, termination and eviction litigation,
court fixation of rent
Urban planning and environment:
Advice and litigation in planning permission
Advice in the management
of polluted sites and ancillary
reporting to authorities