Real Estate
Europe Guide 2024 : Europe-wide
Band 2
Contact number
0207 242 1212About
Provided by Dentons
With more than 400 lawyers in 29 offices across Europe, Dentons’ Real Estate group is one of the largest, dedicated practices amongst global law firms serving clients from Europe’s major financial hubs and gateway cities in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Ireland.
Our pan-European real estate lawyers specialize in advising clients on real estate investment transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of single assets, portfolios and cross-border transactions, as well as on joint ventures. We can handle deals of any size and complexity.
Clients find in us a full-service, multi-jurisdictional real estate practice, serving global leading institutional investors, private equity and pension funds, insurance companies, investment banks, financial institutions and developers, to help them navigate through every aspect of their property ventures and projects.
We take pride in working collaboratively with them in a comprehensive approach that fosters trust across a wide variety of property sector projects, including warehouse and logistics, residential, offices, retail centers, hotel and mixed-use developments. We are clients’ business partners, anticipating trends, reacting with speed and certainty on their behalf, determined to find a successful outcome on every aspect of their deal.
Chambers Review
Dentons is a well-reputed CEE player with market-leading outfits in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, and increasingly strong presence in Luxembourg, Italy and the Netherlands. It acts for major investors and real estate funds on buying and selling large-scale real estate assets across multiple European jurisdictions. The law firm is also active on real estate development projects and assists with real estate finance issues, handling mandates in the retail and residential sectors.
Global real estate co-chair Evan Lazar in Prague and Europe head Martine Gerber-Lemaire in Luxembourg are key points of contact.
Work Highlights
- Lawyers in the Czech Republic, Spain and the Netherlands advised Hines on the acquisition of a three-asset logistics in the Netherlands and Spain.
Strengths
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"The team provides a great service - they're very responsive and commercially aware."
"Dentons partners always try to pull the best of their global network of skills, experiences and knowledge to advise a client."
"Complex matters spanning various fields of law have been dealt with seamlessly and quickly."
"Dentons communicated exceptionally well and responded in a timely manner."
"They have a real expertise in the real estate field."
"The team provides a great service - they're very responsive and commercially aware."
"Dentons partners always try to pull the best of their global network of skills, experiences and knowledge to advise a client."
"Complex matters spanning various fields of law have been dealt with seamlessly and quickly."
"Dentons communicated exceptionally well and responded in a timely manner."
"They have a real expertise in the real estate field."
Members
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Clients
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EQT Exeter
GIC
Harrison Street
P3 Logistic Parks
Round Hill Capital
Savills Investment Management
Starwood Capital Group
Tristan Capital Partners
UBS
Union Investment Real Estate
Industries
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Domestic and cross-border acquisitions and disposals (single asset / portfolio)
Real estate development
Real estate finance
Real estate leasing, asset and property management
Transaction structuring