Clifford Chance LLP, Real Estate | Chambers Europe Profile

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Real Estate - Spain

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Clifford Chance's Spanish team provides full-service real estate advice on issues ranging from individual asset deals to the structuring of real estate joint ventures. It advises investors on office developments in various parts of Spain, and it assists lenders with the financing of Spanish commercial real estate projects. The team has experience in large-scale shopping centre transactions on behalf of institutional investors and is further active in the sale and purchase of REO portfolios. The firm also assists corporate landowners with sale and leaseback transactions in order to access capital tied up in real estate.

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Work Highlights

Clifford Chance advised Carrefour on the acquisition of a real estate portfolio consisting of 38 supermarket and convenience stores, from El Corte Inglés.

Strengths

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The firm takes a rigorous and practical approach, ensuring the transaction goes through.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Clifford Chance has a multidisciplinary team that helps us resolve all legal issues. It has a great team that is always available to help.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

It is always an excellent experience working with Clifford Chance. It is focused on the main points we are worried about and it always protects us.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The human resources assigned to provide services make the team more than prepared to advise on complex matters.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The firm takes a rigorous and practical approach, ensuring the transaction goes through.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Clifford Chance has a multidisciplinary team that helps us resolve all legal issues. It has a great team that is always available to help.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

It is always an excellent experience working with Clifford Chance. It is focused on the main points we are worried about and it always protects us.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The human resources assigned to provide services make the team more than prepared to advise on complex matters.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Notable Practitioners

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Carlos Portocarrero

Band 1

Carlos Portocarrero is well known among market commentators as the driving force behind Clifford Chance's strong real estate practice in Spain. He leads the majority of the firm's top transactional mandates on behalf of real estate asset managers, developers and retailers.

Carlos provides excellent advice and is a good communicator.

He is a reference in the real estate field, especially for complex transactions.

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