The Real Estate & Construction department provides both advisory and litigation support to owners, developers, insurance companies, construction firms, design offices / prime contractors / engineers, insurance companies, banking and financial institutions, property companies and management companies.
We are particularly involved in the following operations:
- Preventive injunction and neighborhood law.
- Assistance and representation in preventive and contentious expert appraisals
- Private procurement law
- Assistance in setting up payment guarantees due to contractors in works contracts, and bonds to replace retention deposits.
- Subcontracting law (contract drafting, direct action, direct payment, subcontractor payment guarantees).
- Assistance with the financial settlement of the construction project (breakdown of works, penalties, implementation of financial guarantees in favor of contractors or the project owner).
- Liability of those involved in the building process (assistance with the implementation of decennial and biennial liability, perfect completion guarantee, common law liability of builders, management of claims during construction).
- Construction insurance (damage insurance, TRC, compulsory ten-year liability insurance for building owners, optional insurance and insurance for other parties involved in the building process).
- Real estate development – Sale before completion – Sale of a building to be renovated – Contract for the construction of a single-family home.
- Financial completion guarantee and delivery guarantee.
- Assistance with the formation, execution, renewal and termination of civil leases (residential, furnished, professional, etc.), commercial leases, future completion leases and rural leases.
- Assistance with procedures for setting the price of renewed and revised leases and eviction compensation.
- Co-ownership law, Associations Foncières Urbaines Libres (AFUL) and Associations Syndicales Libres (ASL).