Real Estate and Construction
- Legal advice in connection with greenfield and brownfield development
- Sale and purchase of commercial property, including, shopping centers, office, warehouse and industrial facilities, as well as land plots
- Structuring real estate acquisition (including preliminary agreements and agreements on sale and purchase of future real estate objects)
- Real estate finance, including drafting and negotiating loan and facilitate agreements, mortgage agreements
- Lease agreements (including representing landlords and tenants)
- Construction, construction management, design, EPC agreements, technological equipment supply, various works and services agreements
- Advice on various town-planning, licensing, registration issues
Advising a major Russian food production company on acquisition of agricultural land plots, buildings, transport and equipment in Lipetsk Oblast (amount of transaction approx. USD 30 million) from a Russian group of companies and individuals. Carrying out legal due diligence of more than 60 land plots and immovable property located thereon; structuring the proposed deal; controlling performance of completion obligations by the Seller; drafting and negotiating a set of transaction documents (including agreements on sale-purchase of future objects; SPAs with respect to LLC participatory interest and JSC shares)
Advising on an investment project to build a seed processing and pesticide plant in Russia; legal due diligence of land plots in Krasnodar Krai, Stavropol Krai, and the Republic of Adygey; negotiations with local authorities on the allocation of rights to land plots, rezoning, and development of town-planning documentation; drafting memoranda of understanding and investment agreements with municipal and regional authorities; advising on matters relating to the conclusion of connection agreements and obtaining specifications for connecting the plant to utilities systems, negotiations with power companies
