Real Estate
Key contact(s)
Athena Law & Strategy advises clients on every possible aspect of real estate law (related to property management as well as corporate real estate), e.g.:
- Negotiating and drafting purchase, sales and rental agreements for real estate;
- Negotiating and drafting share purchase agreements for real estate companies;
- Legal due diligence in the context of a sale or purchase of a property or real estate company;
- Negotiating and drafting construction agreements, subcontractor agreements and architect agreements for property construction.
- Defending the interests of various actors active in real estate before all competent Belgian Courts (construction liability, tenant liability, soil pollution liability, etc.)
- Athena Law & Strategy easily works together with other experts in real estate: e.g. property managers, specialists in construction techniques, specialists in soil exploration and surveying.
Credentials
- Assisting Belgian insurance company with complete legal investigation (due diligence), negotiation and closing of a land purchase agreement and construction agreement for the new offices of their Antwerp headquarters.
- Assisting Belgian insurance company on a new rental agreement for the relocation of their head office in Wallonia from Namen to Braine-l'Alleud.
- Assisting a listed real estate investment company from 2008 until now in multiple cases relating to tenant liability and construction liability before several Dutch-language courts.
- Assisting real estate division of a major Belgian bank from 2010 until now in several cases relating to tenant liability (including tenant liability for soil pollution in Wallonia).
- Assisting a major Belgian company active in the pharmaceutical sector with the purchase of shares in a Brussels-based real estate company.
- Assisting property developers in claiming sizeable penalties for delay from their contractor before the Brussels Court of Appeal.