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EXPERTISE JURIDIQUE

Real Estate

The Law Office practices in all areas of law related to the real estate field. The specific areas of competence are:

  • Acquisitions (auditing, legal structuring, negotiation and drafting of contracts)
  • Structuring of agreements between partners - Corporate real estate
  • Land management
  • Property management
  • Urban Planning
  • Real estate leasing
  • Litigation
  • Organization of the Co-ownership and disputes
Significant interventions

  • Advising on the acquisition of various buildings or real estate companies in France, Monaco and abroad
  • Advising foreign hotel groups in the acquisition and renovation of hotels, holiday villages and tourist residences on French territory and in the context of their renovation
  • Advice on the preparation of construction-sale real estate operations
  • Advising an owner in his contractual relations with the lessees of a shopping mall to be valorised
  • Advising assignee of a domestic petroleum products distribution company holding several real estate assets
  • Advice and support within the framework of structuring real estate groups with activities in construction-sale, sales of goods and the provision of services
  • Organising data rooms and management of all aspects relating to the building and the environment in the context of the drafting and negotiation of acts relating to the sale
  • Urban planning litigation (urban planning and criminal law)
  • Various disputes relating to the sale of buildings in France and Monaco.

Construction

The Law Office practices in all branches of law related to the field of real estate construction:

  • Drafting of contracts relating to real estate development and construction-sale operations
  • Complex financing operations. Debt structuring
  • Construction lease, VEFA, BEFA
  • Drafting of "turnkey" infrastructure construction contracts
  • Contracts of stakeholders in the work
  • Contract management
  • Works contracts
  • Financial claims within the framework of private works contracts (AFNOR - FIDIC)
  • Manufacturers' liability
  • Litigation
Significant interventions

  • Legal structuring, negotiation and drafting of all acts relating to the construction of Methane plants
  • Revision of contractual documentation (CCAP - CCAG) of construction operations
  • Financial claims on construction contracts "Build Operate and Transfer (BOT)"
  • Private works contracts (drafting and litigation).

Commercial Contracts

The Law Office practices in all branches of business law. The specific areas of competence are:

  • Commercial relations
  • Business contracts
  • Business litigation
  • Disputes over defective products
  • Litigation for industrial claims
Significant interventions

  • Advice and support for a Fintech company (prepaid bank cards)
  • Advising various Italian shipyards, and banks operating in the yachting sector
  • Management Buy Out on a restaurant chain and development of a franchise network.

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Restructuring

When dealing with companies in difficulty, the Law Office intervenes more particularly in:

  • Preparation of procedures
  • The realization of collateral and guarantees
  • The drafting of Takeover Bids
  • Disputes over the execution of the plan
Significant interventions

  • Participation in the drafting of recovery plan proposals involving partial sale of production activities and real estate assets.

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Litigation

The Law Office intervenes in all types of litigation, even the most sensitive:

  • Litigation before civil, commercial and administrative courts
  • Alternative dispute resolution
  • « War Room »
Significant interventions

  • Various disputes relating to the sale of property in France and Monaco ranging from € 800,000 to € 250,000,000 Defense of Héli-Air Monaco company against the State of Monaco following the termination of the service concession covering the connection Monaco-Nice Airport-Monaco
  • Supervision of a dispute relating to the construction of a fleet of three vessels falling under the laws and jurisdictions of France(contract law), Italy (collective proceedings affecting a party) and Tunisia (real security)
  • Litigation over the improper termination of talks
  • Governance crises and conflicts between shareholders
  • Urban planning litigation (urban planning and criminal law)

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Mergers & Acquisitions

The Law Office intervenes:

  • In the structuring of the acquisition / disposal
  • In the performance of legal review of the documentation
  • During the phases of drafting and negotiation of legal documentation
Significant interventions

  • Acquisitions of land intended for the realization of construction-sale operations of buildings (for residential use, offices, leisure, warehouses ...)
  • Organization of data room and management of all aspects relating to the building and the environment in the context of the drafting and negotiation of acts relating to the transfer
  • dvice on the acquisition of two yacht shipyards in Tunisia

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International

When the imperatives of a case require it, the Law Office acts alongside legal professionals whose ethical principles and professional secrecy are compatible with the French legal profession.

Monaco: The Law Office regularly practices Monegasque law, particularly real estate and construction law, business law, banking law, maritime law and private international law. The Law Office regularly assists and advises their clients before the courts of the Monegasque judiciary, in particular on cross-border cases, with the permanent assistance of a Monegasque lawyer. For example: Counsel to Héli-Air Monaco on the dispute with the State of Monaco arising from the termination of the Monaco-Nice Airport regular line concession.

Italie: The Law Office regularly assists and advises its clients on matters related to Italy, but also before Italian courts with the assistance of permanent local correspondents (in particular Rome, Milan, Genoa, La Spezia and Florence).

Royaume-Uni: The Law Office works in close collaboration with permanent correspondents established in England and Scotland.

Tunisie: The Law Office regularly intervenes in Tunisia, in particular on behalf of shipyards with the assistance of local correspondents. For example, the Law Office intervened in the sale of the Magic Yachts shipyard in favour of a French group listed on the stock market.

Maritime

The Law Office practices in all branches of law related to the maritime domain. The specific areas of competence are:

  • Sale and Purchase of ships
  • Shipbuilding and repairs (contracts, litigation, etc.)
  • Vessel registration, Financing & Security
  • Negotiation and drafting of specific contracts
  • Structuring of international partnerships
  • Disputes over maritime trade
  • Material damage disputes
  • Insurance relations
  • Litigation & Arbitration
  • International enforcement
Significant interventions

  • Advising various Italian shipyards, and banks operating in the yacht sector
  • Seizure of vessels, maritime claims, vessel registration conflicts
  • Participation in the drafting of recovery plan proposals involving partial sale of shipyard activities and their real estate assets
  • Supervision of litigation relating to the construction of a fleet of three vessels falling under the laws and jurisdictions of France (contract law), Italy (collective procedure affecting a party) and Tunisia (real security)

PROJECTS

With a strong culture of Real Estate and Construction, forged by nearly 20 years of professional practice working for developers and builders, the Law Office is involved in all types of real estate projects, even the most complex (residential, leisure, office, industrial) in France, Monaco in the world.

For over 15 years, the Law Office has been advising hoteliers in the definition of their project, in the follow-up of their project and in litigation following delivery.

The Law Office advises clients in the construction of civil engineering projects.

The Law Office advises clients, in France and abroad, on the construction or disposal of solar farms, as well as on the construction of biogas plants.

The Law Office advises shipyards on the construction of yachts and superyachts.

The Law Office advises its clients on the acquisition and financing of helicopters.