Real Estate and Planning

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Real Estate and Planning

A global team of real estate lawyers and a single contact to guide you through every stage of your property and investment challenges.

Partnering with us means you’ll have one of the world’s largest full-service real estate teams on your side.

A team that’s at the heart of many of the world’s most complex, challenging and well-known real estate deals.

You’ll benefit from our forward-thinking, technology-enabled project management, a creative approach to challenges and comprehensive knowledge of global property markets.

And you’ll enjoy an efficient service delivered with transparency, combined with our understanding of the commercial priorities of your sector and the legal issues you face.

Our diverse practice works across all real estate asset classes. This means our lawyers have the experience to help you channel your real estate investments in the best structure and sub-sector for you. We work at every level of the capital stack, from developers to institutional investors, landlords and tenants, borrowers and lenders. 

We can support you through the complete project life cycle from finance, structuring and purchase, through development and asset management to sale and realization of returns. It also means we can help you on specific, standalone issues as well, at every stage and wherever you are in the world.

Our recent real estate law experience includes:

  • advising on the £460m sale of student accommodation portfolio comprising 13 assets in the UK, Spain and Germany
  • acquisition and finance of a portfolio of 23 shopping centres in Germany for €680m
  • acting as sole UK legal advisor on a client’s first UK real estate venture, with the acquisition of 97 property assets across the UK through a managed fund
  • arranging the lease agreements of multiple offices in Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Poland and France
  • representing developers involved with both the Class A multifamily and ground-level retail components of the $300 million-plus mixed-use development surrounding the Atlanta Braves Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia
  • representing a leading REIT and its affiliates, as borrower, to close a $715 million mortgage loan refinancing involving 368 single-tenant, net-leased properties across 41 states as well as Washington DC

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Key contacts

gerhardmolt@eversheds-sutherland.com

Dr. Gerhard Molt

Partner

Munich, Germany

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