Real Estate & Construction

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

On-going assistance in acquisition of land and construction of a chemical terminal in the Leningrad Region. The project assignment includes full legal services during the project – assisting in due diligence of different land plots for acquisition, participating in negotiations, preparing draft agreements and further full legal assistance during design and construction stages. The project