Our breadth of experience in the real estate and construction sector includes all aspects of real estate acquisition, development, financing, investment, ownership, leasing, operation, and management.
We combine industry-specific legal expertise and practical approach to meet the demands of this fastest growing industry and its increasing complex business requirements.
Industry-specific services:
01. Land and property privatization, public lease and public tenders
- Buy-sells;
- Letting and leasing;
- Property management;
- Maintenance;
- Mortgage;
- Insurance;
- Co-ownership arrangements;
- Utilities and communications supply;
- Servitudes, superficies and usufructs;
- Others.
Normally we put together project teams of professionals in different areas to provide the client with a full-circle legal advice throughout an M&A transaction and diligently handle all matters related to:
- Pre-transactional arrangements and negotiations;
- Entering into binding agreements;
- All kinds of due diligence investigation;
- Drafting and negotiating definitive agreements on transaction;
- Merger clearance;
- Tax structuring and tax-beneficiary jurisdictions;
- Finance structuring and establishment of specific instruments, if necessary;
- Cross-border payments and title transfers: guiding through currency control and financial monitor traps;
- Implementation of specific English-law mechanisms;
- Post-signing and post-closing legal support;
- Registration of title and other regulatory matters;
- Drafting restated by-laws, establishing corporate governance and dealing with other related issues.
In course of providing legal support for real-estate transactions and projects we frequently come across and advice our clients on various regulatory matters, including:
- Zoning and planning;
- Construction and architectural licenses;
- Land management documentation and land allotment projects;
- Pre-design, design and construction approvals;
- Authors and technical supervision in construction;
- Commissioning procedures;
- Title registration and obtaining title certificates;
- Permits for commencement of operation;
- Refurbishment;
- Change of functional use of premises;
- Partitioning of co-owned properties;
- Other regulatory matters.
We provide overall legal advice on development projects, both greenfield and brownfield. We deal with various types of residential, commercial and industry developments.
The wealth of our experience in the development sphere allows us to pick up the project at any stage and lead it through all sorts of acquisition, regulatory, contractual, tax and other structuring, finance, partnership and other issues.
06. Real estate finance and collaterals
07. Joint ventures and partnerships in real estate sector
We offer full-scale legal council on tax, finance, real estate, and environmental issues and assist developers, owners, and contractors to overcome different construction challenges. We provide all kinds of legal services related to construction matters, whereof the major of them are:
- Project management arrangements;
- Negotiation and drafting of all kinds of design and construction related agreements;
- Structuring and execution of construction finance instruments;
- Pre-sales structures;
- Licensing, permits and compliance.
Our litigation practice is the strongest one in Ukraine with over 20 years of proven track record in civil, commercial and administrative litigation and commercial arbitration and resources to meet our clients’ needs from pre-litigation negotiation through appeal, including handling any of the following claims:
- Delay claims;
- Defective design;
- Payment and performance issues;
- Unilateral termination;
- Cost overruns;
- Breach of contract;
- Bond and lien claims;
- Warranty issues;
- Insurance coverage;
- Jobsite injury;
- Professional fee disputes;
- Title protection and re-establishment;
- Property division and co-owners' disputes;
- Dispute boards and other mediation in dispute resolution;
- Investment and other arbitration.
- Venture funds;
- Special purpose (interest-free) bonds;
- Construction financing funds;
- Real estate operation funds;
- Mortgage notes;
- Other financial instruments related to real estate, construction and pre-sales.
11. Tax planning and cross-border structuring
12. Private-public partnerships
