Dentons, Real Estate | Chambers Europe Profile

About

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With over 400 lawyers in 29 offices across Europe, Dentons’ Real Estate group is one of the largest dedicated practices among global law firms. We serve clients from Europe’s key financial hubs and gateway cities, including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Ireland.

Our pan-European real estate team specializes in advising clients on real estate investment transactions, including acquisitions and disposals of single assets, portfolios, cross-border transactions, and joint ventures. We are equipped to handle deals of any size and complexity.

Clients benefit from our full-service, multi-jurisdictional real estate practice, which serves leading global institutional investors, private equity and pension funds, insurance companies, investment banks, financial institutions, and developers. We guide them through every aspect of their property ventures and projects.

We take pride in working collaboratively with clients, offering a comprehensive approach that fosters trust across a wide range of property sector projects, including logistics, data centers, living/residential, office spaces, retail malls, hotels, and mixed-use developments. We are more than just business partners - we anticipate trends, react with speed and certainty, and are dedicated to securing successful outcomes in every aspect of their deals.

Chambers Review

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Real Estate - Europe-wide

Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Dentons is a well-reputed CEE player with market-leading outfits in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia, and notable presence in France, 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, hospitality and residential sectors.

Notable practitioners

Global real estate co-chair Evan Lazar in Prague is a key point of contact.

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Work Highlights

Dentons advised Globe Trade Centre on the EUR417 million acquisition and financing of a residential portfolio in Germany.

Strengths

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What we like is its ability to make international links with clients; it is a real international interlocutor. When we need that support, we appreciate having access to the local expertise.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Dentons has a very well coordinated team that is always available and technically outstanding, with pleasant negotiating skills.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The team brings experience, responsiveness, availability and speed of action.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The team provides excellent quality and is very attentive to the commercial aspects.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Dentons' role is often extremely proactive, entrepreneurial and really close to the matter. The involvement of other departments is easily possible and the collaboration between them is smooth.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

What we like is its ability to make international links with clients; it is a real international interlocutor. When we need that support, we appreciate having access to the local expertise.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Dentons has a very well coordinated team that is always available and technically outstanding, with pleasant negotiating skills.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The team brings experience, responsiveness, availability and speed of action.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The team provides excellent quality and is very attentive to the commercial aspects.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Dentons' role is often extremely proactive, entrepreneurial and really close to the matter. The involvement of other departments is easily possible and the collaboration between them is smooth.

Real Estate respondent
Europe