Why choose our Real Estate lawyers?
Efficiency, speed and attention to detail are the strengths on which Fieldfisher’s multidisciplinary teams are based. Our teams operate in all areas of the real estate market and offer assistance to various players, including regulated entities, at every stage of every transaction and in the ordinary management of relations with counterparties.
We help our clients to actively manage their real estate interests and support their strategies with appropriate legal arrangements. We work with our clients right from the outset of any project in order to correctly and adequately plan the legal and tax structure of the transaction, to prevent any problems and avoid potential litigation.
Our real estate law department brings together the different skills necessary to plan, carry out and complete a real estate transaction:
- Structuring of transactions
- Legal due diligence
- Acquisitions and disposals, assets and share deals
- Set-up of funds and company structures, including joint ventures
- Asset management (Property, Facility and Project management)
- Collateral, personal guarantees, escrow agreements
- Real estate leasing and business rentals
- Administrative and planning law
- Spatial and town planning and construction
- Development, works contracts and construction
- Environment
- Finance and restructuring
- Real estate litigation
Tax Department
We analyse emerging issues relating to real estate taxation, providing advice and assistance in the following areas:
- Due diligence for acquisitions of real estate companies and assets
- Acquisitions and subsequent de-listing of listed real estate companies
- Tender-offers for acquisitions of private contributions closed-end listed real estate investment funds Establishment - via contribution of real estate portfolios - of closed-end real estate investment funds
- Determining the tax liability of real estate trading companies, particularly with reference to:
- Correct definition of taxable revenue and income depending on the type of real estate held
- Problems relating to the deductibility of interest expense deriving from financing agreements for the acquisition of real estate
- Application of regulations governing dummy companies (drafting and handling of requests for non-application).
- VAT and direct tax advice in connection with real estate transfers
- Optimisation of VAT cash flow, analysis of deductible VAT and VAT recovery planning (VAT refunds and related cash flow)
- VAT audits for real estate companies