Linklaters, Real Estate | Chambers Europe Profile

About

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We have organised our Real Estate practice in a unique way, offering an integrated one-stop approach combining all areas of relevance for real estate transactions. Our team includes specialists in real estate M&A, real estate investment and development, real estate finance, projects and project finance, tax, real estate funds, capital markets derivatives and structured finance and real estate disputes, as well as construction, environment, planning/zoning and energy. This enables our Real Estate practice to perform market-leading international deals from origination to financing and on to securitisation/capital markets.

We help our clients to create value, share risk, enhance returns and mitigate tax costs using an ever-widening range of innovative and complex structures.

Long-standing clients of our firm include national and multinational real estate owners, users, developers, contractors and investors (including funds and Sicafis), who entrust us with a broad range of advisory, litigation (including administrative litigation), and transactional work, ranging from the investment in, or sale of, real estate assets, the structuring of real estate projects and the listing of real estate companies, but also the day-to-day management of real estate.

Please visit the Linklaters website for more details about our work in this category: https://www.linklaters.com/en/client-services/real-estate

Chambers Review

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Real Estate - Belgium

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

An outstanding team combining experience in corporate and real estate law, Linklaters often assists REITs and large local property development companies with real estate transactions, public procurements and PPP projects. The law firm has significant expertise in litigious proceedings, representing clients in proceedings relating to commercial lease agreements, construction defects and contractual issues. The team assists lenders with real estate financing matters.

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Work Highlights

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Linklaters assisted Cityforward, a Belgian fund held by the SFPIM, with the structuring, debt financing, signing and completion of Project Schuman, a complex multiparty transaction in which the European Commission sold full ownership of 23 properties to SFPIM for a total value of EUR900 million.

Strengths

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The team at Linklaters has a very good knowledge of the market and industry standards. The lawyers consider their clients' interests and focus on practical solutions.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Linklaters delivers high-quality work. They are very knowledgeable and responsive.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Linklaters lawyers are always available, providing swift and professional answers and advice. They're able to digest complex matters and explain them well to their clients.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

The team at Linklaters has a very good knowledge of the market and industry standards. The lawyers consider their clients' interests and focus on practical solutions.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Linklaters delivers high-quality work. They are very knowledgeable and responsive.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Linklaters lawyers are always available, providing swift and professional answers and advice. They're able to digest complex matters and explain them well to their clients.

Real Estate respondent
Europe

Notable Practitioners

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Yves Moreau

Band 1

Yves Moreau frequently assists with a range of real estate matters, including those with corporate aspects, and construction matters. He often acts for financial institutions and real estate investors.

Yves Moreau is very, very responsive, I don't know how he does that. He's very solution-oriented, a dealmaker, very pragmatic and to the point, and he's very good and accessible.

Yves is the best real estate lawyer in Belgium. His professionalism, expertise and great sense of humour make him the go-to lawyer in the Belgian real estate market.

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Pieter Puelinckx

Band 2

Pieter Puelinckx has considerable experience in public procurement frameworks, lease agreement negotiations and property acquisitions.

Pieter Puelinckx knows the market, the law and the commercial aspects. Contract conditions are managed very well and it is a pleasure to work with him.

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