Real estate, construction, and infrastructure
Our law firm offers highly specialized legal advice in the fields of real estate, construction, and infrastructure, supporting investors, developers, construction companies, real estate funds, and public administrations throughout the entire lifecycle of real estate and infrastructure projects.
Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach, we provide clients with strategic assistance that combines commercial insight, technical expertise, and comprehensive knowledge of sector-specific regulations.
We assist parties in negotiating share purchase agreements, sale contracts, and co-investment agreements, ensuring proper risk management and the appropriate allocation of liabilities among partners.
We draft and review construction contracts, assisting clients and contractors during the tender, execution, and testing phases, with particular focus on penalties, variations during the work, and claims.
We provide advice on project finance transactions, real estate leasing, public-private partnerships (PPP), and service concessions, integrating civil, administrative, and regulatory aspects.
We assist clients with urban planning procedures, including the issuance of building permits, SCIA (Certified Start of Activity Reports), construction permits, and urban planning agreements, as well as participation in conference of services procedures.
We coordinate multidisciplinary teams to analyse real estate assets and portfolio (brownfield and greenfield), verifying property titles, environmental restrictions, ESG profiles, and regulatory compliance.
We defend our clients’ interests in international arbitrations, ordinary courts, and before Regional Administrative Courts in matters related to procurement, delays, construction defects, and expropriations.
Notable cases
We assist owners of large properties subject to mass illegal occupation in protecting their interests both in civil and criminal proceedings, also taking on the role of judicial custodian when necessary, achieving significant results (eviction and restitution to the rightful owner);
We conducted due diligence in a share deal involving a special purpose vehicle company owning an office building of about 15,000 square meters in the centre of Bologna;
We have acted as consultants in drafting and/or negotiating numerous lease agreements for real estate complexes, warehouses, hotels, commercial centre spaces, etc.;
We performed due diligence for the acquisition of logistics real estate complexes;
We provided assistance for the establishment of a housing cooperative, drafting the articles of association, internal regulations, and property allocation procedures;
We assisted companies involved in the development of logistics parks with administrative, urban planning, and contractual matters;
We provided judicial assistance to companies operating in the construction sector in disputes arising from the development of commercial and/or residential real estate projects (e.g., regarding defects and faults in contracted works, determination of liabilities of the professionals involved in design/supervision, breaches of preliminary sales agreements, compensation for damages for client withdrawal, etc.), including insurance-related aspects;
We have represented foreign parties (individuals, banks) in real estate purchase contracts involving properties located in Italy;
We assisted a company in a high-value contractual dispute stemming from a public works project for road construction;
We assist – both in and out-of-court – a public economic entity in various matters related to a dispute concerning compensation determination for land expropriation.
