The growing complexity of regulations and case law at all stages of property investment, occupancy and site operation calls for a thorough understanding of the relevant issues and resulting challenges. Due to the increase in litigation in this area, careful preparation is required at the planning stage by all operators involved with regard to the procedure, the content of the legal documentation (notably contracts), the nature and course of legal action.

Our Practice Areas

• Sales and purchases of building: land, industrial buildings, commercial and residential, existing or planned, isolated or block assets
• Construction: construction agreements, assistance to project owners, contracting authority representation project supervision, real estate development
• Leases: law and litigation relating to commercial leases (negotiation, finalisation, setting rent upon renewal, eviction), professional leases, residential leases
• Town planning: law and litigation relating to national and local town planning rules, planning permissions, taxation and contributions, commercial town planning, permits and taxes specific to the Paris region
• Environment: pollution and classified facilities, audits of property assets and operating sites
• Expropriation: law and litigation relating to declarations of public interest, procedures and determination of indemnities to be paid to owners of real estate assets and commercial or industrial operators
• Real estate project financing: legal and tax aspects
• Real estate taxation: tax optimisation for investment istructures (REIT rules (SIIC regime), etc.), taxation applying to property transactions
• Local tax before, during and after building works: property tax on developed and undeveloped, annual tax on office, commercial and storage premises in the Paris region, business tax, etc.
• VAT on property: property transactions, development, real estate agents
• Transactions by companies operating in the real estate sector

Our Approach

We provide the following services for all of the above areas and transactions:

• Audits of the legal and administrative situation, advice, consultation and assistance in negotiating and finalising memoranda of understanding, letters of intent (avants-contrats) and contracts
• Litigation relating to these areas.

Our expertise in these various areas is provided by attorneys boasting solid experience in the real estate sector who, at any time, can call upon the firm's specialists in real estate law, real estate taxation and local taxation in order to ensure a high level multidisciplinary approach. We adopt a global perspective when managing our clients' operations from the planning to implementation and performance stages, and handle relations with other participants (notaires, surveyors, appraisers, administrative authorities, tax authorities, etc.).

Our Clients

Banks, investment institutions and real estate companies, users (large companies, small and medium-sized enterprises), developers, real estate brokers and other key operators in the real estate sector.