The Firms’ partners have extensive experience in real estate questions and assist clients with needs related to the structuring of real estate transactions, including securitization of receivables, issuance of bonds backed by real estate, establishment of real estate investment funds, development of shopping centers, sale of hotel condo units and various types of financing for property undertakings.

Some of the services in this area are listed below:

• Assistance to analyze, draft and negotiate real estate agreements in general, including purchase/sale, establishment of in rem guarantees, rental, lease, build-to-suit, surface rights, among others.
• Assistance in construction projects involving payment to the property owner in units of the building.
• Assistance in the development and structuring of shopping centers.
• Structuring of complex real estate transactions.
• Definition and formalization of governance rules in real estate investments: memorandums of understanding, investment agreements, general rules for leasing, condominium association bylaws, internal rules of behavior, etc.
• Assistance in structured financing of real estate undertakings by means of bonds, promissory notes, real estate receivables certificates (CRIs), real estate credit notes (CCIs) and bank credit letters (LCIs).
• Assistance regarding the constitution, functioning and public distribution of shares of real estate investment funds (FIIs) and equity investment funds (FIPs) tailored for the real estate sector.
• Assistance in the establishment of pooled hotel ownership arrangements, including preparation of the instruments related to sale of hotel condo units.
• Legal due diligence for property investment deals.
• Assistance in acquisition of real estate by foreign individuals and companies.