Areas of Specialization
Real Estate Transactions
- Real estate transactions and agreements: purchases and sales, leases, loans for use, leasing and rural partnerships, swaps, real estate leasing, civil construction, construction services, management agreements, easement, usufruct.
- Legal structuring, drafting of contracts and investing in multi-use real estate developments, shopping centers, offices, hotels, theme parks, virtual offices, industrial condominiums, residential and mixed-use condominiums.
- Structured Transactions: structured sale of properties, built-to-suit leasing, surface rights.
- Rural Law: acquisition of rural properties, title survaling under GPS basis, rural leasing, rural partnerships, rural agreements, rural guarantees (rural pledges, mortgages on rural properties).
- Transactions involving long-term lease-holds: transactions involving lands belonging to the navy, lands under emphyteusis and areas occupied by federal government buildings.
- Structuring of security interests on real property relative to transactions involving direct investment and financing: the Housing Finance System (Sistema Financeiro de Habitação), the Real Estate Finance System (Sistema Financeiro Imobiliário), Unsponsored Transactions and the Afetação system whereby any assets under development are legally set apart from the assets of the developer.
- Structuring real estate investments: Direct Investment, Special Purpose Entities, Real Estate Investment Trusts and and Private Equity Investment Funds.
- Real Estate Financing: securitization of real estate receivables, issuance of certificates and papers of real estate receivables, the assembly and analysis of investment structures through debtand capitalization of companies or in property.
- Real estate developments, condominiums and land sub-divisions.
- Legal aspects of reforestation projects and transactions involving rural properties.
- Regularization of the records of urban and rural properties at the competent agencies.
- Consultancy services in Real Estate and Urban Law.
