Real Estate
Future facing legal experts guiding your real estate ventures across borders
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As an investor, developer, occupier, construction consortium, or asset manager, your real estate deals are often executed under tight deadlines within complex local legal frameworks. With over 800 lawyers across 40 countries, we provide consistent, cross-border legal advice, ensuring seamless coordination from your home market to meet your needs in every jurisdiction.
Lawlex real estate at a glance:
- 200+ partners and 800+ lawyers globally
- One of the leading Real Estate teams in the region
- Recognized for excellence in real property and public law by industry rankings
- Representing major real estate investors, developers, and asset managers across diverse sectors
Practice area
Antitrust, Competition and Trade
- Antitrust, Competition and Trade
- Abuse of dominance and economic dependence
- Competition and cartel investigations
- Compliance
- Digital markets
- Foreign investment screening
- Foreign subsidies control
- General EU law, free movement of goods, services and capital
- Horizontal agreements
- Merger Control
- Unfair trading practices (UTP)
- Private enforcement
- Regulatory
- State aid and EU subsidies
- Trade law and sanctions
- Vertical agreements
Banking & Finance
Commercial
Corporate Crime, Compliance & Forensics
Corporate / M&A
Dispute Resolution
Employment, Labour & Pensions
ESG – Environmental, social and governance
Intellectual Property
Public Procurement
Real Estate
Tax
TMC - Technology, Media & Communications
What sets Lawlex apart in real estate
- Comprehensive Real Estate Expertise: Specialising in construction and development, disposals, financings, investments, litigation, asset management, occupiers, planning and environmental law, and tax across all asset classes, including data centres, hotels, logistics, offices, healthcare, residential, retail, and student accommodation.
- Extensive Local Knowledge with Global Reach: With a strong presence across multiple jurisdictions, we bring in-depth local expertise to every project, ensuring tailored and effective solutions for each market.
- Multidisciplinary Approach: Providing integrated advice across various sectors such as funds, corporate, tax, banking, and insolvency. We streamline your legal needs with a single point of contact for seamless multinational service.
- Relationship-Driven: Our focus is on building long-term relationships with clients and their suppliers, ensuring trust, collaboration, and success throughout the life of every project.
- Comprehensive Legal Expertise: Our team has detailed knowledge and hands-on experience in both contentious and non-contentious aspects of real estate law, ensuring all potential issues are addressed proactively.
- Proactive and Commercial: We take a proactive, commercial approach to guide your business through complex legal challenges and ensure success in real estate ventures.
- Civil Notaries: Where allowed by bar rules, we provide civil notary services, adding further value to our comprehensive real estate legal offerings.
Cutting-edge real estate
Real Estate and beyond
At LawLex, we are one of the few firms capable of supporting you across the full life cycle of an asset: from financing, acquisition, and development, to construction, asset management, and optimization, all the way through to eventual sale. However, our expertise extends well beyond traditional real estate law. Our distinguished lawyers specialize in areas such as fund formation and management, environmental regulation, construction disputes, and tax planning. We offer strategic advice on protecting your brand and reputation, managing joint venture agreements, and addressing employment matters.
As a firm with a leading international tech practice serving innovators, we possess an advanced understanding of the synergies—and challenges—at the intersection of property and emerging technology. Additionally, our top-tier energy practice enables us to provide comprehensive advice on the real estate aspects of projects aimed at creating a more sustainable future, including wind farms, solar farms, electrical interconnectors, battery storage, and energy-from-waste initiatives.
Global vision
All proficient real estate lawyers understand their local markets. However, many clients require a global perspective, which LawLex, as a leading international law firm, is uniquely positioned to provide. Whether your needs involve a cross-border transaction, international arbitration, global fund distribution, or international portfolio management, our experts possess the knowledge and experience to support you effectively.
Building the future
LawLex is at the forefront of addressing legal and regulatory issues. Our partners hold prominent positions in professional real estate bodies, helping to set standards and shape regulatory frameworks. We also engage with broader, transformative issues. Urbanization, climate change, demographic shifts, and new technologies are just some of the factors influencing the global real estate market. We can help you navigate and evaluate these trends, anticipating change, protecting key assets, and ensuring your business is prepared for the future.
Case studies
Innovating sustainability in real estate - the green tower in Berlin
In Berlin, LawLex was approached by a leading global real estate developer to assist in the creation of “The Green Tower,” an ultra-modern, sustainable office building designed to set a new standard in eco-friendly urban development. The client sought a comprehensive legal partner who could navigate the complexities of sustainability certifications, cutting-edge technology integration, and cross-border investment structures.
Revitalizing the riverside district – a new mixed-use neighborhood in London
LawLex was engaged by a prominent urban development firm to lead the legal aspects of a transformative project in London’s Riverside District. The initiative aimed to regenerate a previously underdeveloped area, creating a vibrant, sustainable mixed-use neighborhood that would include residential, commercial, and recreational spaces, while fostering community engagement and economic growth.
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Local market knowledge Global outlook
We provide future-facing legal advice to help your organisation thrive. Combining local market knowledge and a global perspective, and with lawyers in locations worldwide, your organisation benefits from the expertise it needs, even across borders.
