European Real Estate overview

Many of our clients work on a global scale and have a need for legal advice across jurisdictions. We meet this need by working with a select number of law firms who are experts within their own jurisdictions in real estate work and have a deep understanding of the culture, values and workstyle of their particular countries which we feel is also very important to getting deals done.

To enable our clients to benefit from this approach we have developed close and long-standing relationships with a number of leading firms throughout Europe and further afield.

We have an alliance with August & Debouzy, based in Paris, and GSK Stockmann + Kollegen, a German law firm with offices in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt on Main, Heidelberg, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. Both firms excel in real estate work, as well as other disciplines, and we have worked together on a range of assignments.

In addition to our two alliance firms, our network of preferred law firms covers Europe and the other main economies in the world.

The main benefits of this approach are:

  • Our clients benefit through the seamless delivery of services across jurisdictions managed by a single point of contact and operating to consistent standards of service
  • We can offer a streamlined approach to administration through single point billing if required
  • Our clients benefit from a multi-jurisdiction team that who know each other and regularly work together and have a vested interest in providing a high quality service
  • We do not share fees and we are quite content to work with the client’s existing legal advisers if preferred. Our approach puts the client's needs first
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