Real Estate

Our real estate clients appreciate having one team and one point of contact for all their legal needs. To ensure this, we collaborate closely with our tax, corporate, banking and finance, and competition and regulatory experts. This approach guarantees top-notch expertise for complex deals, including transaction structuring, merger clearance, GDPR issues, financing, and refinancing.

For contentious matters—whether a design or construction dispute, a lease-related issue with a tenant, or a claim based on NOI leakage from a recent investment—we team up with our dispute resolution experts to protect your interests. To help you expand your business, we also have partners across Europe, the Far East, the US, and many other locations.

Real Estate

We can help you with

  • Any larger real estate investment deals
  • Cross-border deals, where several different properties are located in several different jurisdictions
  • Sale-leaseback and forward purchase transactions
  • Cross-border transactions, where parties to the deal are based in different jurisdictions in the Baltic states
  • Situations where a Baltic/international real estate player is looking to expand outside our region
  • Structuring real estate investments, including tax structuring
  • Commercial real estate management and leasing
  • Acquisition of agricultural and forestry land

Expertise at every stage of the real estate project

We can help you at any stage of your real estate project, from design and construction to property management and divestment. We bring together diverse competencies and relevant sets of expertise for any matter that our clients may face in the real estate sector.

Trusted partner for the hospitality industry

Recently, we have greatly expanded our knowledge of the hospitality industry. We have been involved in the presence of almost all the brand-name hotels that have come to our region in the last ten years or so. When it comes to hotel management or hotel franchise agreements, we are familiar with what both parties need to secure successful cooperation and a balance of interests.

Experience

  • Lords LB Asset Management

    Advice on hotel management contract for Radisson RED hotel in Vilnius and on hotel management agreement for Holiday Inn hotel in Riga with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) and on Acquisition of 9,670 m2 ‘EU House’ office building in central Tallinn

    Legal Adviser
  • Northern Horizon Capital

    Advice on acquiring the Vainodes 1 office building in Riga, at a total purchase price of approx EUR 21.3 million

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • Lidl

    Providing full range advice on property development matters involving legal due diligence, structuring transactions for property purchase, construction, planning and zoning

    Developer's Legal Adviser
  • Eastnine

    Acquisition of three class A business centres in Vilnius meeting the highest environmental standards. This is the largest office deal in the Baltics since 2008

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • East Capital

    Advice on acquisition of Mustamäe Keskus shopping centre

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • Valsts Nekustamie Īpašumi (SJSC «State Real Estate»)

    Assistance in wide range of property management and development advice for public real estate portfolio holder, including litigation

    Buyer’s Legal Adviser
  • China Merchants Group

    Assistance with acquisition of a land plot at the China-Belarus Great Stone Industrial Park for further development of an international exhibition center, including negotiations with the park administration on procedures to be applied considering the absence of specific legal regulation

    Legal Adviser
  • Citycon

    Advice on acquisition of Kristiine Shopping Centre and Rocca al Mare in Tallinn and on acquisition and sale of Mandarinas Shopping Centre in Vilnius. These transactions were then cited as major property M&A and benchmark transactions in Estonia and Lithuania

    Legal Adviser
  • Hesburger

    Advice on entering the market and expanding. Assistance on a wide range of real estate-related legal matters: due diligence, preliminary arrangements, acquisitions and lease transactions, preparation for opening and further management of restaurants

    Legal Adviser
  • IWG

    Assistance on wide range of legal matters within the project of opening a business center – commissioning of the object reconstructed for the client under the preliminary lease arrangement; negotiating lease terms with the landlord; adapting corporate forms of contracts to local legal requirements

    Legal Adviser

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