Real Estate & Environment
Deeply experienced in providing advice to private and public entities, our team of experts joins together technical expertise with a profound knowledge of the clients' business sector.
We advise all areas regarding the Real Estate area, namely investment or disinvestment (in real estate, construction, rehabilitation, distribution, tourism and services) comprising all of its stages:
- due diligences
- structuring of Investment Funds
- company or assets restructuring
- funding and creation of guarantee packages
- drafting and negotiating all sorts of real estate assets acquisition or selling contracts (share deals and stone deals)
- sale & lease back
- drafting and negotiating construction contracts and projects management contracts
- lease contracts and other right to use transfer contracts
- real estate assets management support contracts
We regularly join together multi-disciplinary teams bringing together skills from experts coming from different areas of practice, namely Tax, M&A, Planning or Litigation, which permits us to render a global full-service providing real added value to the client.
As regards Environmental Law, we provide specialized legal advice to our clients in all fields, namely:
- environmental due diligence procedures and assessment of the environmental compliance level of companies
- environmental impact assessment and other environmental assessment procedures
- all aspects related to environmental and industrial licensing
We provide specialized legal services in various areas (wastes, noise, water resources, sea, air and atmospheric emissions, emissions trading and allowance auctions, forestry and agricultural resources, plant protection products and hazardous substances) and evaluate all environmental aspects related to zoning plans and other type of plans.
We frequently advise our clients in relation to the following matters:
- environmental liability (including insurances and financial guarantees)
- brownfields and soil contamination situations
- creation of environmental funds
- environmental taxation
- environmental misdemeanor procedures and environmental pre-litigation and litigation procedures
We follow and advise all environmental matters regarding several deals and projects in the areas of real estate and tourism (shopping centres, hotels, tourism development projects and golf courses), industry, renewable energy and exploitation of natural resources.
