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Provided by Evan Z Lazar
Practice Areas
Evan is widely recognized as a top tier real estate lawyer specializing in multi-country property investment, joint ventures, and finance matters. He has over 30 years of experience acting as lead partner on major institutional real estate transactions involving from single assets to large portfolios in Europe and globally in the logistics, data center, residential, office, retail and hotel sectors.
Career
Evan is Co-Chairman of the Global Real Estate Group at Dentons, the largest and one of the leading teams amongst major international law firms, with more than 1,000 real estate lawyers worldwide.
From the inception of Dentons in 2013, through 2023, Evan has served as Chairman of the Europe Board and a Member of the Dentons Global Board, and for seven years also as Global Vice Chair of the Firm. Before Dentons was founded, he served as the Co-Chair of Salans’ Global Real Estate Group for 10 years. Prior to that, he was the founder of the Central European Real Estate Practice at Weil, Gotshal & Manges and later Co-Chairman of their European Property and Finance Group. Before moving to Europe in 1993, Evan was a real estate lawyer in Philadelphia with Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen.
Clients
Over years Evan has built an excellent, institutional client base, which includes major leading investors, Private Equity and pension funds, insurance companies, borrowers and developers.
Chambers Review
Europe
Evan Lazar acts for international investors on multi-jurisdictional M&A deals, including portfolio and residential project acquisitions, from his base in Prague.
Evan Lazar is a highly reputable lawyer in the Czech real estate market. He acts on particularly high-volume property deals, including multi-jurisdictional transactions.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Evan has experienced many transactions and provides a strategic view on very complicated deals."
"Evan is simply one of the best real estate lawyers in Europe."
"Evan has experienced many transactions and provides a strategic view on very complicated deals."
"Evan is simply one of the best real estate lawyers in Europe."
Articles, highlights and press releases
4 items provided by Dentons
Kirkland & Ellis and Dentons advise AXA IM Alts on the sale of Data4 to Brookfield Infrastructure
Global law firm Dentons collaborated with Kirkland & Ellis on the representation of AXA IM Alts, acting on behalf of its clients, on the agreement to sell Data4, a European data center operator, to Brookfield Infrastructure.
Dentons and K&E advise KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners on $15B acquisition of CyrusOne
Dentons, as part of a legal team led by Kirkland & Ellis, represented private equity firm KKR and fund manager Global Infrastructure Partners, in the successful US$15 billion bid to acquire data center operator CyrusOne, Inc.
Dentons advises Round Hill Capital on sale of €1.3 billion residential portfolio
Dentons and Simpson Thacher represented Round Hill Capital and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities on the sale of a €1.3 billion residential real estate portfolio in the Czech Republic to Swedish real estate company Heimstaden Bostad AB.
Dentons advises GIC on €950 million Maximus portfolio acquisition
Dentons and Kirkland & Ellis represented GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, on the acquisition of the Maximus logistics real estate portfolio from Apollo Global Management, a US-based private equity firm. The value of the transaction was worth approximately €950 million.
Kirkland & Ellis and Dentons advise AXA IM Alts on the sale of Data4 to Brookfield Infrastructure
Global law firm Dentons collaborated with Kirkland & Ellis on the representation of AXA IM Alts, acting on behalf of its clients, on the agreement to sell Data4, a European data center operator, to Brookfield Infrastructure.
Dentons and K&E advise KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners on $15B acquisition of CyrusOne
Dentons, as part of a legal team led by Kirkland & Ellis, represented private equity firm KKR and fund manager Global Infrastructure Partners, in the successful US$15 billion bid to acquire data center operator CyrusOne, Inc.
Dentons advises Round Hill Capital on sale of €1.3 billion residential portfolio
Dentons and Simpson Thacher represented Round Hill Capital and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities on the sale of a €1.3 billion residential real estate portfolio in the Czech Republic to Swedish real estate company Heimstaden Bostad AB.
Dentons advises GIC on €950 million Maximus portfolio acquisition
Dentons and Kirkland & Ellis represented GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, on the acquisition of the Maximus logistics real estate portfolio from Apollo Global Management, a US-based private equity firm. The value of the transaction was worth approximately €950 million.
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