FIELDS OF LAW
Real Estate and Construction Law
The team in our construction and real estate law practice group offers comprehensive advice on construction projects and projects tailored to investors, medium-sized companies and global corporations.
We cover the entire spectrum of construction and real estate law, including advice during construction, litigation and complex real estate transactions. We ensure that projects are carefully planned, contracts are legally compliant and claims are enforced in court if necessary.
Our experts work together across practice groups to accompany projects from the initial idea through to completion. Our areas of expertise include construction and architectural law, public construction law, project development, real estate transactions, industrial plant construction, real estate management and commercial tenancy law, litigation and arbitration as well as issues relating to financing.
We are known for our expertise in the real estate sector and are regularly recommended by leading specialist publishers and receive awards such as the JUVE Award.
Our Range of Services
- Contract drafting
- Claims management
- Judicial and extrajudicial enforcement and defence of construction parties’ claims (remuneration, supplements, obstruction, liability for defects)
- Architect and engineer liability in connection with major damage incidents
- Dispute settlement and conflict resolution
- Support in sourcing properties, plots of land or projects (advance legal appraisal)
- Structuring of joint ventures for development projects
- Project investment structuring
- Legal structuring of private-public partnerships (PPP)
- Finance structuring
- Legal project and claim management in development projects
- Planning law, urban development contracts
- Establishment of building rights
- Drafting and negotiation of contracts with neighbours
- Development plan and planning permission procedures
- Redevelopment and development areas as well as local environment protection and neighbourhood preservation law
- Conservation law issues
- Law on the misappropriation of residential space
- Neighborhood agreements and defense against neighbor objections and neighbor complaints
- Budgetary, grant and subsidy law
- Planning permission and infrastructure law, particularly railway law
- Environmental and, in particular, nature conservation and soil protection law
- Constitutional and administrative law issued
- Contract drafting and negotiation as well as project-specific consulting for national and international plant construction projects e.g. FIDIC contract drafting, international industry standards, Incoterms, foreign legal systems (Switzerland, USA, UK, UAE etc.)
- Representation in disputes before civil and arbitration courts as well as support in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, expert witness proceedings and preservation of evidence
- National and international arbitration proceedings as arbitrator or party representative
- Mediation
- Full-service consulting for real estate transactions
z. e.g. for asset, share, forward and joint venture deals, also as heritable building rights - Structuring and implementation of real estate or real estate portfolio acquisitions, developments and sales involving all asset classes
- Drafting and negotiation of Head of Terms/LoI and brokerage agreements
- Due diligence and (re-)financing
- Sale and lease back
- Property leasing
- Monitoring of the post-closing settlement process
- Restructuring of group property holdings, hive-off of real estate assets to a (newly established) property and management company
- Property and rent contract management: support with follow-up agreements, e.g. on space adaptation, term renewals, commercial terms amendments, disputes relating to defects, tenancy relationship termination administration
- Asset and property management: expansions and conversions, repairs and maintenance, operating cost optimisation, modernisation, design and construction service procurement, claims management, property and facility management contracts
- Real estate law: easements, usufructuary rights, mortgages
- Special real estate
e.g. retail parks and shopping centers - Compliance/operator responsibility: Identification, communication and monitoring of public safety obligations
- Drafting, notarial authentication and execution of real estate purchase contracts, including contracts for large real estate portfolios
- Legal protection of financing
- Project implementation support for building owners
- Drafting and notarial authentication of all necessary contracts, including partition deeds for residential complexes, registration of easements and residential unit purchase and sale agreements
- Advice to borrowers
- Mortgage loans
- Real estate development, construction progress payment financing
- Share and asset deals
- Portfolio transactions
- Detailed appraisal of company and supervisory law issues