Real Estate
Our clients in the real estate sector appreciate working with one team and one point of contact for all their legal needs. In order to ensure that happens, we closely work with our tax, corporate, banking and finance, and competition and regulatory experts, who are instrumental in making sure our clients get top-notch expertise for more complex deals, including transaction structuring, merger clearance, GDPR-related issues, financing and refinancing and any other specific element of a deal or matter.
When you are facing matters of contention – whether a design or construction dispute, a dispute with a tenant over a lease-related matter or a claim based on a NOI leakage from a recent investment of yours – we team up with our dispute resolution team to protect your interests. And to help you expand your business we also have partners in all European jurisdictions, as well as in the Far East, the US and many other locations.
We can help you at any stage of your real estate project, from design and construction to property management and divestment. We can bring together diverse competences and relevant sets of expertise for any matter that our clients may face in the real estate sector.
Recently we have greatly expanded our knowledge of the hospitality industry. We have had a hand in the presence of almost all the brand-name hotels that have come to our region in the last ten years or so. When it comes to hotel management or hotel franchise agreements, we are familiar with what both parties need to secure successful cooperation and balance of interests.
We can help you with
- Any larger real estate investment deals
- Cross-border deals, where several different properties are located in several different jurisdictions
- Sale-leaseback and forward purchase transactions
- Cross-border transactions, where parties to the deal are based in different jurisdictions in the Baltic states and Belarus
- Situations where a Baltic/international real estate player is looking to expand outside our region
- Structuring real estate investments, including tax structuring
- Commercial real estate management and leasing
- Acquisition of agricultural and forestry land
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Experience
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Legal Adviser
Lords LB Asset Management
Advice on hotel management contract for Radisson RED hotel in Vilnius and on hotel management agreement for Holiday Inn hotel in Riga with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and on Acquisition of 9,670 m2 ‘EU House’ office building in central Tallinn
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Buyer’s Legal Adviser
Northern Horizon Capital
Advice on acquiring the Vainodes 1 office building in Riga, at a total purchase price of approx EUR 21.3 million
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Developer’s Legal Adviser
Lidl
Providing full range advice on property development matters involving legal due diligence, structuring transactions for property purchase, construction, planning and zoning
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Buyer's Legal Adviser
Eastnine
Acquisition of three class A business centres in Vilnius meeting the highest environmental standards. This is the largest office deal in the Baltics since 2008
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Buyer’s Legal Adviser
East Capital
Advice on acquisition of Mustamäe Keskus shopping centre
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Buyer’s Legal Adviser
Valsts Nekustamie Īpašumi (SJSC «State Real Estate»)
Assistance in wide range of property management and development advice for public real estate portfolio holder, including litigation
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Legal Adviser
China Merchants Group
Assistance with acquisition of a land plot at the China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park for further development of an international exhibition center, including negotiations with the park administration on procedures to be applied considering the absence of specific legal regulation
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Legal Adviser
Citycon
Advice on acquisition of Kristiine Shopping Centre and Rocca al Mare in Tallinn and on acquisition and sale of Mandarinas Shopping Centre in Vilnius. These transactions were then cited as major property M&A and benchmark transactions in Estonia and Lithuania
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Legal Adviser
Hesburger
Advice on entering the market and expanding. Assistance on a wide range of real estate-related legal matters: due diligence, preliminary arrangements, acquisitions and lease transactions, preparation for opening and further management of restaurants
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Legal Adviser
IWG
Assistance on wide range of legal matters within the project of opening a business center – commissioning of the object reconstructed for the client under the preliminary lease arrangement; negotiating lease terms with the landlord; adapting corporate forms of contracts to local legal requirements
Newsroom
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Citycon divests Kristiine Keskus shopping centre
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EIKA sells shopping centre Pupa in Vilnius
Deals & Cases