Real Estate, Construction and Energy Law
Generating profit in tough times
The capital market has discovered real estate as an attractive trading and investment opportunity and is developing new forms of financing. This has produced a new generation of economic and legal consultancy that overlaps with other fields such as corporate, finance and tax law.
We assist you with the due diligence process through to the sale. We help you to efficiently realize projects to the set quality standard, on time and in budget. Throughout this process, we optimize legal and fiscal structures and provide consulting services ranging from advice on energy and civil construction law to drafting agreements between neighbors and contracts with project managers, tradespeople, and general contractors. We provide legal services to property buyers and sellers, investors, principals, project managers, architects, banks, public authorities, private equity funds and investment firms for site development issues ranging from planning and permits to the realization and management.
Our services:
- Financing and structured real estate financing (including grants and subsidies for the protection of historical monuments and investment premiums)
- Consulting services during the planning phase (including public consultancy, protection of historical monuments and technical planning agreements)
- Assistance during the realization phase, settlement of disputes and litigation (including construction, architect’s and engineer’s liability)
- Securing the right of use in a real estate property (including land register research, property purchase contracts, leasehold contracts, public easements, land easements and per-sonal licenses)
- Real estate management (including brokerage and rental agreements for commercial properties)
Property tax, real estate transfer tax, construction-based withholding tax, investment premium, income taxes and turnover tax - Energy law, renewable energies, contracting, CHP reallocation charge, reallocation charge according to the EEG (Renewable Energy Sources Act), network fee, licenses