Portfolio Category: Real Estate & Construction

Analysis of whether premises could be redesigned to comply with fire safety requirements in a building which is a cultural heritage site

Analysis of whether premises could be redesigned to comply with fire safety requirements in a building which is a cultural heritage site. The project was further complicated by the fact that the redesign involved premises actually owned in common with the owners of premises in the building but legally privately owned as a result of …

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Provision of the full legal support for our client in structuring the transaction

We provided full legal support for our client, the subsidiary of two large Israeli companies, Electra and Canada-Israel, in developing 240+ hectares for a large residential construction project and structuring the transaction to sell part of the area to Setl City group. Our legal support of the transaction included working on structuring the transaction (including …

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Provision of the legal support for the unique project in the centre of St. Petersburg

We are providing legal support for the unique project to adapt a historical building and federal monument in the centre of St. Petersburg as a luxury hotel. We provide our client, a subsidiary of Bank St. Petersburg PJSC, with legal services for structuring and concluding a set of contracts with Accor, one of the leading …

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Legal due diligence investigations of brownfield land plots in the St. Petersburg area for residential construction

We performed several legal due diligence investigations of brownfield land plots in the St. Petersburg area for residential construction and advised our client on structuring the acquisition transaction as a lease with the option to buy the land plot. The project is remarkable for its complexity, as a pond and a park are located on …

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Providing legal support in structuring the sales and operation of non-residential premises in a building that is a federal cultural heritage site

We are providing legal support in structuring the sales and operation of luxury apartments (non-residential premises) in a building that is a federal cultural heritage site. The apartments will be managed by an international hotel operator; the specificity of the project is that the apartments will be used exclusively for living, and not for the …

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Drafting of several memoranda for our client – Sandvik machining solutions AB

Drafting of several memoranda for our client, the owner of a manufacturing facility located on state-owned land plots. The memoranda discussed issues of legalising the building that was constructed on the land plots, considering that the lease agreement for the plots prohibited construction on them. The project was complicated by the fact that a building …

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Analysis of the possibility of legally operating the rented repairing building

We analysed the possibility of legally operating the rented building which the landlord was repairing. The landlord at first treated the work as reconstruction and obtained all the necessary permits (in particular, the building permit). The landlord was then unable to commission the reconstructed building and asked the client to operate it without commissioning, arguing …

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Analysis of the town-planning characteristics of the land plot and the permitted use of the non-residential property

For our client, a subsidiary of S Group, the largest Finnish retailer, we analysed the town-planning characteristics of the land plot and the permitted use of the non-residential property located thereon for siting a shop in the leased premises. The project is very important for our client as any failure of the non-residential property to …

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Our lawyers protected in court the possibility of adapting the Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace for an expansion of the exhibition space of the Fabergé Museum

On June 9, 2020, the Third Cassation Court of general jurisdiction terminated a dispute over the reconstruction of the Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace, located on Fontanka River Embankment, thus enabling the creation of a circular exhibition in the Fabergé Museum located in the palace in question. Last year St. Petersburg rights activists petitioned to Kuibyshevsky Court of …

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Our team assisted one of the largest Russian residential real estate developers

Legal support of acquisition of industrial area in the center of St. Petersburg for the purpose of re-development and further residential construction from one of the oldest Norwegian conglomerates, which includes foods, confectionery and snacks businesses. The role of legal counsel includes legal check of the acquired assets, legal advice on risks related to the …

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