Real Estate

Our team is known for handling major real estate development and investment projects of our region, such as property portfolio deals, sale-leaseback transactions and forward purchases.

We structure and co-ordinate all aspects of real estate deals, from transaction structuring to bank financing, collateralisation and closing the deal. Regularly assisting tenants and real estate owners in negotiating lease agreements, we know what businesses need and how they think when it comes to lease arrangements. Our team advises on structuring expansion and reduction options, lease extensions and terminations. We also help real estate owners prepare and negotiate property management and facility management agreements which represent best international practices and secure the interests of the owners. Additionally, our experience includes assisting real estate developers and brand-name hotels with different matters related to hotel management agreements.

Our real estate experts are always part of the team assisting clients in PPP or PFI matters, this means that we have been involved in many large infrastructure projects, including pieces of social infrastructure, such as schools and police structural units.

We can help you with

  • Due diligence on real estate and property-holding vehicles
  • Transaction structuring, including providing tax advice
  • Sale and purchase, including forward purchase and portfolio deals
  • Sale and leaseback transactions
  • Property management
  • Commercial property leases
  • Hotel management and franchising agreements
  • Security and collaterals (mortgages, pledges, guarantees)
  • Acquisition of real estate for development or redevelopment
  • Public-private partnership (PPP) and private finance initiative (PFI) projects
  • Dispute resolution in commercial real estate matters

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Experience

  • Buyer’s Legal Adviser

    Nepi Rockcastle

    Advice on acquisition from the ECE group of one of the largest shopping centres in the Baltics ‒ Ozas shopping and entertainment centre in Vilnius

    EUR 124.6 million
  • Legal Adviser

    Hesburger

    Assistance on wide range of real estate-related legal matters – due diligence, preliminary arrangements, acquisitions and lease transactions, development, design and construction issues

  • Buyer’s Legal Adviser

    Technopolis

    Full scale advice on acquisition and development of the Ozas campus in Vilnius, one of the largest office campuses in the Baltics, comprising over 100,000 sqm GLA and 6 office buildings

  • Buyer’s Legal Adviser

    Hili Properties-Mc Donald group

    Assistance in due diligence and acquisition of Dole shopping mall in Riga

  • Legal Adviser

    Lords LB Asset Management

    Advice on acquisition of the 9,670 m2 ‘EU House’ office building in central Tallinn

  • Buyer’s Legal Adviser

    Getin Holding

    Acquisition of central Minsk-located business centre Azimut with a total area of over 9,000 m2 by Idea Bank (a subsidiary of Getin Holding in Belarus)

  • Buyer’s Legal Adviser

    Itransition

    Acquisition of two office buildings and assistance with transferring the rights to the buildings and land

  • Legal Adviser

    Nelja Energia

    Sale of 100% shareholding to Enefit Green, a subsidiary of state-owned energy producer Eesti Energia. Most of the assets of Nelja Energia consisted of wind parks in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and other real estate

    EUR 488 million
  • Legal Adviser

    Mozyr Timbermill

    Assistance with the acquisition of multiple land plots as well as other real estate, and transferring the rights to the buildings and land as part of a project for development of a new timber mill

  • Legal Adviser

    Vitebsk Sawmill

    Advice on wide range of real estate-related legal matters within the project of modernisation and expansion of production