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Real Estate

Today’s market requires experienced, multidisciplinary lawyers who can apply high-level experience in real estate, corporate M&A, securities, partnership, and tax law to complex business transactions.

Knowledge Pioneers Law Firm Real Estate Practice Group represents some of the most active and sophisticated private equity funds, sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, major pension organizations, and other institutional investors as well as publicly-traded real estate entities in connection with their real estate activities.

Knowledge Pioneers has extensive experience in every stage of ownership of global real estate assets, including fundraising and structuring, deployment of capital, financings, and refinancings, and final asset disposition, as well as complex restructuring and recapitalization transactions.

We offer clients flexible and creative solutions to difficult problems. Working as one team, across practice areas and offices, we offer focused, multi-disciplinary counsel on a cost-effective basis.

We regularly advise key industry clients on a variety of matters, including:

  • Acquisitions and dispositions of single assets, portfolios, majority, and minority equity positions, and performing and non-performing loans;
  • Joint ventures (including one-off partnerships, platforms, and club arrangements) involving all asset classes;
  • Public company matters, including mergers, take-privates, IPOs, and roll-ups;
  • Complex debt restructurings, workouts, and equity recapitalizations, including loan to own transactions;
  • Real estate private equity fund formations and advisory related matters;
  • First mortgage and mezzanine financing transactions; and
  • REIT formation, qualification, and transaction structuring.

Knowledge Pioneers Law Firm‘s market-leading real estate group offers a full range of real estate services, including single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single asset and multi-property/programmatic joint ventures, fund formation, operating company investments, cross-border investments, Real Estate Investment Trusts, real estate financing, construction and design, leasing, zoning/land-use, environmental law, real estate litigation and tax.

Knowledge Pioneers Law Firm delivers highly sophisticated legal advice on long-term projects that involve drafting documentation, facilitating negotiations, navigating legal and regulatory issues and, when necessary, litigating on their behalf. Our multinational team of real estate lawyers assists clients throughout the entire life cycle of their investments. Real estate has emerged as an attractive long-term investment for investors seeking diversification and stable yields within an uncertain economy. In addition, many traditional real estate companies and multinational corporations now have needs that transcend borders resulting in the emergence of a global real estate industry.

Asset Management

A deep understanding of asset management is key to ensuring the client’s revenue and overall investment value continue to rise, that vacancy rates remain low, and that the client is able to achieve their balanced investment pool.

 

With Knowledge Pioneers, real estate developers and investors are met by professional lawyers enhanced by a deep understanding of effective real estate strategies and the integration of business operations know-how. Knowledge Pioneers Real Estate lawyers have distinctive flexibility while diminishing cost and risk and, where appropriate, release capital for the business. Our knowledge of our client’s businesses, as well as the underlying legal issues they face, is key to our advice to any organization which needs to buy, sell, manage or lease land or buildings.

Since “Ejar” e-service was launched, Knowledge Pioneers Real Estate team has been deeply involved in enhancing clients with what lies beyond registering e-contracts where we have seen a move towards more collaborative working between landlords and tenants. In line with this trend, our preferred approach is to address key tenant requirements, speed up transactions, and reduce costs.

Development & Planning

Development projects range from office buildings and mixed use facilities to large scale urban regeneration projects with complex negotiations between public and private stakeholders. Development has been adversely impacted by economic uncertainty over the past few years; however it continues to recover across real estate sectors and markets worldwide.

Our experience guiding commercial development projects gives our clients a competitive advantage. Clients seek us out because we deliver the full range of services necessary to conceive, implement and complete significant projects. Among the projects we have handled are city center and urban redevelopment projects, multi-party air rights developments, office towers with parking and retail components, multi-phased mixed-use projects, mixed use resort properties and lifestyle center developments.

Planning is key to successful real estate and project development. Our experienced planning team supports our clients through all phases of a development project, from planning appraisals, applications and agreements, to enforcement, appeals, inquiries and challenges.

Engineering & Construction

Construction sector has been the backbone of economy. This is what deeply understand in Knowledge Pioneers Law Firm. Our Construction team works hand-in-hand with Contract/Transactions teams in order to deliver the best-in-class Construction Contract agreements and project packages that take care of the client from entry through the exit.

As our client comes to know the business opportunity, Knowledge Pioneers assists clients in analysing the risk profile of their projects and selecting the best type of delivery method for the project. After the selection of the desired construction method, we assist clients in negotiating the contracts.

As the cost and complexity of construction differ from a project to another, our construction team has a long record of experience in negotiation and strategic advice that protects our clients’ interests and plans and manages their contractual risks.

Due Diligence

Dispute Resolution

Disputes are a fact of life in the real estate sector and we help clients avoid them by advising on potential issues at the earliest stages of deals. If a dispute does arise, we have skilled real estate and contract lawyers who can manage all of the litigation, arbitration, adjudication, and alternative dispute resolution processes.

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