Real Estate

The practice of our real estate attorneys extends to all aspects of real estate development and finance in Romania, with broad experience and expertise in matters relating to the ownership, assembly, acquisition, development, construction, operation, financing and securing of real estate assets.

Our real estate practice handles transactions of all sizes and complexities, whether it is for a local client wishing to purchase a piece of property, or for a multinational corporation involved in a multi-asset transaction spanning various states and foreign jurisdictions. As always, our real estate attorneys have seamless connections to other practice groups and readily rely upon our financial, employment, corporate and competition attorneys.

In the representation of both foreign and domestic clients, our real estate attorneys have participated in various acquisitions, dispositions, financings, work-outs and restructurings, developments, foreign multi-tiered investments, sale-leasebacks, and all forms of commercial leasing, including offices, industrial properties, partnerships, joint ventures and syndications.

Specifically, RMDT advised several major foreign clients on real estate project development, real estate financing, real estate investment funds, asset-based lending, asset securitization, unsecured financing and refinancing schemes, multilateral joint ventures, etc, in connection with the implementation of several major real estate projects such as residential projects in Bucharest, Cluj Napoca and Craiova, industrial sites in Bucharest and Drobeta Turnu-Severin, a number of shopping malls in Bucharest and Brasov, a hotel / hostel network in Romania, etc, as well as during the set up and the operation of several accommodations and lodging facilities across Romania including two hotel / motel chains, etc, particularly in connection with the project financing, the real estate due diligences and land purchase or lease agreements, or with the design and construction processes as well as with the obtaining of all the relevant authorizations, permits, classifications etc.

Our real estate attorneys have provided advice for the redevelopment of Baneasa Airport, Bucharest’s national airport, the development of more than twelve hotel and resort projects throughout the region, numerous office buildings (including Europa House), and the acquisitions of lands and negotiations of leases for properties, including the preparation of purchase and sale agreements, and mortgage and funding documents.