Practice areas:
Development (with the definition of the best corporate structure to be used) and realization of different types of real estate projects, with hotel, commercial, industrial, tertiary, logistics, nursing home for elderly and residential use (including social housing and student accommodations).
Refurbishment and renovation, on behalf of the owner/principal, of real estate assets with different destinations, already leased or to be leased.
Lease agreements on behalf of the tenants (mainly corporate occupiers) or on behalf of the landlords (mainly real estate investment funds).
Assistance in the investment and in the disinvestment from portfolios or from single assets, also through the implementation of alternative investment structures, dealing with all the involved phases from the due diligence to the completion of the relevant transaction.
Assistance on behalf of the borrowers in the financing of their real estate project, through the definition with the lenders of the facility agreement (on a recourse/non-recourse basis) with the relevant security package.
Assistance in the litigation concerning real estate and construction law.
For each practice area, the Firm assists its own clients by evaluating the best contractual scheme that suits to their needs, dealing on behalf of them both with the corporate set-up of the deal as well as the real estate transaction. Among these, the most recurring contractual schemes are the following:
Acquisition contracts (asset deal/share deal)
Development agreements (including joint development agreements and joint-venture agreements) aimed at the acquisition, realization and income of the relevant real estate asset
“Turnkey” construction contracts, EPC contracts, cost plus fee contracts, supply contracts, FIDIC models for the realization of infrastructure projects;
Agreements relating to the development phase of the real estate project: design contracts, project and construction management contracts, project monitoring contracts, safety assignments
Agreements relating to the management phase of the realized real estate project: hotel management / franchising contracts, operation and maintenance contracts (i.e. “O & M”), asset, property and facility contracts
Agreements related to the implementation of projects in the field of the renewable energies (i.e. wind farms, photovoltaic plants, biogas and biomass plants, cogeneration and hydroelectric plants)