Real Estate

Key Contacts

Overview

Real estate deals are becoming ever more complex. Increasingly they are cross border, highly structured and involve sophisticated financing arrangements. Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners assists institutional and private investors, multinationals, banks and developers with all of their real estate needs, from buying, selling and leasing property to financing and constructing major projects.

Key Contacts

Anca Danilescu
anca.danilescu@zrvp.ro

+40 21 311 05 17

We were impressed with all of their knowledge and with their collaboration with us. We can only confirm the commitment of all the lawyers, which far exceeded our expectations. We were able to rely on the external lawyer’s support in the same way we could rely on our own coleagues

(Chambers and Partners | 2017)

The team is professional, prompt and knowledgeable.

(The Legal 500 | 2020)

Areas of Work

Acquisition/sale of real estate and companies holding real estate
Claim management
Complex securities
Construction projects (FIDIC, EPC, design & build)
Contracts for architects, general contractors and builders
Due diligence/title investigation
Energy projects (solar parks, wind parks, photovoltaic plants)
Financing structures, structuring of real estate funds and real estate stock corporations
Land registry law
Lease agreements, sale and lease back
Plant construction and building permits
PPP projects in connection with infrastructure
Project development
Real estate-related litigation, construction litigation and arbitration, construction dispute adjudication and mediation
Restitutions of nationalized/confiscated properties
Our clients benefit from the unique contribution of highly reputed specialists, with solid academic knowledge and some of the participants in the drafting of the normative acts in the area of property law applicable in Romania at present.

Selected Assignments

Examples of our work in this area include assistance related to:

The construction of a glass factory in Romania;
Drafting and negotiation of sophisticated construction agreements (including general construction agreement, design engineering agreement, construction management contract, gas connection agreement) regarding the construction of a factory in Romania;
The acquisition of an office building, including drafting an extensive due diligence report with respect to the ownership title of the building and related land;
The acquisitions of compact forestry, agricultural and vineyards estates for a significant area;
The acquisition of 100% shares in a company holding and operating a photovoltaic plant;
A due diligence analysis with focus on real estate issues for the acquisition of a company holding and operating a steel production and manufacture unit wherein an industrial platform and corresponding assets were included.